The Playforge has announced the release of Zombie Farm for the iPhone/iPod Touch. The game combines two popular types of games, simulation farming games and tower defense games. The catch is, players don’t try and stop the zombies from invading their land, instead they raise the zombie army to invade the enemy.

Players make money by farming crops and then selling the crops for a profit. The money is used to make the farm great. Players will also plant their zombie army as well. When the army is ready they will harvest the zombies and send them off to invade neighboring territories. Players can combine plants and zombies to get a mutant breed.

“Tower defense games have become wildly popular, we wanted to create a game where you play the other side trying to overwhelm the defenders, while keeping the game as casual as possible,” says Vince McDonnell creator of Zombie Farm. “This game broadens the horizon of conventional farming sims, here is a farming game where users can farm toward a different goal beyond farming veggies for gold.”

If you are into simulation farm games with a twist, try Zombie Farm. Zombie Farm is free so there is nothing to lose.

Press Release Follows:

Burlingame, CA. –February 9, 2010 — The Playforge, an iPhone development studio, today introduced the immediate availability of Zombie Farm, a comical and quirky farming game for the iPhone suitable for all fans of the farming sim genre.
Designed and developed by Vince McDonnell, industry veteran and founder of The Playforge, Zombie Farm puts you in the shoes of a countryside farmer making a living off the land by farming both crops and zombies. To build your farm to greatness, you must earn gold by selling crops and invading the enemy with your farm fresh zombie horde. In this game, you are commander a horde of lovable living dead, and the enemy will do all they can to defend their farm from your darling zombies. Zombie farm is free and available for all iPhone and iPod touch users to download and play.

“Tower defense games have become wildly popular, we wanted to create a game where you play the other side trying to overwhelm the defenders, while keeping the game as casual as possible,” says Vince McDonnell creator of Zombie Farm. “This game broadens the horizon of conventional farming sims, here is a farming game where users can farm toward a different goal beyond farming veggies for gold.”

Featuring two different systems of play that go hand-in-hand, Zombie Farm presents you with a challenge to literally grow an army by planting them in the ground and waiting until they’re ripe for the harvest. Once you have enough units, you must strive to raid the enemy farm with your legion of zombies. Choose from fifteen different zombies to plant or even combine your crops with zombies to add bizarre zombie-plant mutants to your army. In stark contrast, you can just as easily play the game by planting your favorite fruits and veggies and fill your farm with peace loving garden-type zombies. Watch as these benevolent undead darlings help fertilize your crops so you get the most from your harvest.

Features of the game include:
- Plow, plant, and harvest farm fresh veggies and fruits – Plant corpses and harvest zombies to raise your army
- Customize you farmer, and watch him toil about your farm
- Enjoy watching your zombies wander around your farm
- Behold bizarre zombie mutations as you plant corpse and crops
- 15 different zombies of different shapes and sizes
- Pester Old’ McDonnell next door by invading his barn
- Upgrade your farm’s size
- Connect to Facebook to publish your farming exploits
- Invite your Facebook friends and share the zombie farming experience
- Hours and hours of gameplay
- No Internet connection required
- So funky and fetidly fantastic, you’ll keep farming for more foul festering friends
- It’s FREE!