Clean Kill

Your cursor is the gun. Clean Kill is a top-down zombie shooter with the gunplay of a modern FPS. Land the headshot and it pops — hit-stop, screen shake, and a real gunshot. You feel every kill.

The difficulty comes from the horde, the enemy types, and a boss you have to learn — not from arbitrary power-ups. You die, you learn, you go further. Heavy metal soundtrack, realistic gun sounds, one handcrafted level to master.

Clean Kill is in development. A free demo comes first — then the full game, shaped by your feedback.

What the first demo includes

• Your cursor is the gun — WASD to move, mouse to aim, Space to dash.
• Headshots that pop — hit-stop, screen shake, and a real 9mm gunshot on
  every kill.
• Two enemy types, one hard choice — fast shamblers that swarm, and
  armoured tanks that only fall to headshots.
• A boss you learn — telegraphed attacks and punish windows. Die, learn, go
  further.
• One handcrafted level — corridors, set-pieces, and a boss arena. No
  procedural filler.
• Heavy metal + real gunfire — the music sits back so every shot punches
  through.
• You get better, not the game — no power-ups, no stat grinding, no random
  drops.

What Clean Kill is NOT

• Not a boomer/retro shooter — no 90s nostalgia, no "DOOM-like" pitch.
• Not a roguelike — no procedural maps, no random drops, no meta-progression.
• Not an arena survival wave-crawler — one handcrafted level with a real boss
  you learn, not an endless wave counter.

See it in motion

An early annotated spike — real 9mm gun shots, a heavy metal soundtrack, and headshots that pop. Full video in the devlog.

Roadmap

No dates — just the shape of it:

• Now — in development. Follow the page and read the devlogs.
• First — the free demo: one handcrafted level, two enemy types, and a boss you learn.
• Then — the full game. More of it, shaped by your feedback on the demo.

Follow the page to catch the demo when it drops. For the inspiration and what the spike proved, read devlog #0 — Introducing Clean Kill.

Credits

• Music — "Heavy Metal Combat: Action Music" by Rodrigo Flores (CC BY 4.0). Cover art by Armando Flores.
• Art — Zombie TDS 2D Game Kit — CraftPix.net.
• Gun sounds — Snake's SECOND Authentic Gun Sounds Pack (CC0).
• Crosshair — Kenney Crosshair Pack (CC0).
• Fonts — Bangers & Barlow (SIL Open Font License 1.1).