Survival Z is a zombie apocalypse action/rpg that plays great with a controller.

Choose a character and a scenario. The overview map gives you several choices of paths to take and the paths branch and can remerge. You will have to hit several nodes and a node can be: healing, free item, rescue companion, zombies, tougher zombies, end fight.

In a zombie fight there is a 2-1/2 D playing area that spans farther than the screen so you scroll about some. Zombies enter from multiple entry points in waves. Before the start of a wave you see where zombies are entering and can set up items which zombies drop when you kill them: Sandbags to block zombies, exploding barrels to kill them, automatic machine guns (good behind sandbags), etc. When the action starts you only have to move, firing is automatic at nearest zombies.

Rescue companion is regular zombie level but if you rescue the companion it's a playable character and for the rest of the scenario they will fight zombies independently of you (and if they die you can revive them).

Zombies also drop coins and you use coins to upgrade your weapons and items and the upgrades stick from scenario to scenario. When you die you lose most of your items and are back to basics and have to restart the scenario.

It's a fun light game.

Oops. This game removed from Apple Arcade Dec 19th so will probably stop working in a couple of weeks.