--- title: "Apocalypse Ride - s&box game" description: "2.5D car-vs-zombies side-scroller. Crush hordes, earn cash, upgrade your ride." canonical: "https://sbox.watch/games/azeroht/apocalypse_ride/" generated_at: "2026-09-12T05:41:46.935Z" --- # Apocalypse Ride 2.5D car-vs-zombies side-scroller. Crush hordes, earn cash, upgrade your ride. - Type: game - Ident: azeroht.apocalypse_ride - Creator: azeroht - Canonical: https://sbox.watch/games/azeroht/apocalypse_ride/ - Markdown: https://sbox.watch/games/azeroht/apocalypse_ride/index.md - sbox.game: https://sbox.game/azeroht/apocalypse_ride/ - Generated: 2026-09-12T05:41:46.935Z ## Stats - Playing now: 0 - 24h player peak: 1 - 24h momentum: +0 - Terry score: 75% - Favorites: 105 - Upvotes: 102 - Downvotes: 24 - Total players: 810 - Total sessions: 1.2k - Cumulative playtime: 18 days - Updated: Jun 19, 2026 - Created: Jun 13, 2026 - Size: 35.9 MB - Files: 175 - Tags: action, adventure, arcade, cars, driving, singleplayer, survival, upgrades ## Description Apocalypse Ride A 2.5D car-vs-zombies side-scroller. Drive across a ruined wasteland, flatten hordes for cash, and rebuild your ride in the garage. Drive - D / W accelerate · A / S brake & reverse - SHIFT nitro boost — glide off jumps (burns fuel fast, even faster in the air) - E buy / select a car · ride out (E in front of the car / ENTER anywhere) · R restart a run Survive - Crush zombies for cash, chain kills for an uncapped combo multiplier - Mind your fuel and hull — steep climbs drain the tank, build speed first - Without a ram plow, plowing through a big horde bogs you down Build - 7 vehicles in a linear ladder — each new ride ≈ the last one fully upgraded - 7 upgrades: fuel tank, engine, armor, wheels, nitro boost, roof turret, ram plow - Every upgrade shows live on your car Explore - 10 maps: 9 city-to-city stages, getting longer and harder - Lonely Desert — an endless, paid-unlock finale with massive hordes - Day or night, your choice — night brings +30% zombies and +50% damage ## Updates ### Version 1.3.1 Jun 19, 2026 · Version 1.3.1 The Gauntlet leaderboard is front and centre - it now lives on a big wall panel in the garage (on your right as you leave the office), shows the live global top 10, and formats scores with thousands separators. **Added** - The Gauntlet leaderboard is front and centre - it now lives on a big wall panel in the garage (on your right as you leave the office), shows the live global top 10, and formats scores with thousands separators. **Improved** - Smoother roads - the driving surface was rebuilt finer, so the car no longer catches or stalls on small bumps. - Ranked by your best run - scores each player by their highest single run, not the sum of all their runs. **Fixed** - No more purple lights - city street lamps, lit windows and sign bulbs that rendered violet now glow warm amber. **Removed** - The end-of-run fanfare - finishing a run no longer plays a victory sound (the music already stops at the end). ### Sound overhaul, living roadsides & themed worlds Jun 19, 2026 · Version 1.3.0 Roadside abandoned cars + ragdoll zombie corpses **Added** - Roadside abandoned cars + ragdoll zombie corpses - Distinct engine sound per car - Rolling-wheel road noise - Themed per-map worlds (backdrops/ground + 3D city streets, Gauntlet biome rotation) **Improved** - All-new realistic sound set - Louder turret + ammo 15 -> 75 - Longer Gauntlet biomes **Fixed** - Saved game wasn't saving the Road Maps progress ### 16 June 2026 - Feedbacks from you Jun 16, 2026 · Version 1.2.6 Night monsters - acid Spitters & fast Stalkers - night runs now field two exclusive threats: Spitters that hang back and lob acid at your car from range, and small, fragile Stalkers that sprint in for the kill. Day… **Added** - Night monsters - acid Spitters & fast Stalkers - night runs now field two exclusive threats: Spitters that hang back and lob acid at your car from range, and small, fragile Stalkers that sprint in for the kill. Day runs are unchanged. - Night payday - night runs now pay +25% cash on everything (distance, kills, milestones, arrival) on top of the extra zombies - a real reward for the +50%-damage risk. **Improved** - Much less grind - distance pays ~70% more, the first-clear and re-clear bonuses are bigger, kill bounties are up 60%, and chassis prices were cut so each new car costs ~91% of your previous car's full investment (was 111%). Every run now buys several upgrades, and a new chassis lands in ~3-9 runs instead of 12-23. - Lonely Desert repriced - the premium endless map now unlocks for $150,000, in line with the rebalanced economy. - Wider route map - the stage-select board is roomier so routes and badges breathe. ### 14 June 2026 - Feedbacks from you Jun 14, 2026 · Version 1.2.5 First of all, thanks to @Yotsuyama @xJonder, @Lindox, @Leofric and @MotelBibleKinks for your precious feedbacks!-- **Added** - First of all, thanks to @Yotsuyama @xJonder, @Lindox, @Leofric and @MotelBibleKinks for your precious feedbacks!-- - Hard-landing damage — slamming the ground after a big jump or a ravine drop now dents the chassis, scaled by how fast you fell, never enough to total your car in a single hit (and switched off once you've crossed the finish line). - Cars shatter when destroyed — a wrecked car bursts into flying gibs (body panels and wheels) instead of just vanishing. **Improved** - Advancing now beats farming — reaching each new city pays a big one-time bonus, distance is worth more on harder stages, and endless maps pay reduced cash with capped milestones, so pushing forward earns far more than grinding the start. - The Gauntlet is now a score chase — its kills and chained combos build a leaderboard score (distance + combos) instead of cash, with a live score readout and a launch notice in the HUD. - Combo readout repositioned — it sits lower now and no longer overlaps your score. **Fixed** - The game always opens in the garage — you wake up on the bedroom rug beside your bed at launch, never dropped straight into a run. **Removed** - The night-Gauntlet money farm — repeatedly farming the free Gauntlet at night to afford chassis is no longer the optimal path (its kills now build score, not cash). ### Version 1.2.4 Jun 13, 2026 · Version 1.2.4 Route map defaults to Stage 1 + Day at every launch (your unlocks, money and cars are kept — only the next-run choice resets). **Added** - Route map defaults to Stage 1 + Day at every launch (your unlocks, money and cars are kept — only the next-run choice resets). **Improved** - Bastion Van & Cyber GT redesigned into detailed procedural bodies — an armored "wall on wheels" box van and a Cybertruck-style brushed-steel wedge. - All vehicles enlarged (SizeScale 1.25) for more presence next to the player. - Kill combo tightened — it now expires after 0.5 s without a kill (more skill-based), then the next kill restarts at x1. **Fixed** - Wheels are now centered and symmetric (no lateral offset) and sit beside the body under the fenders — no more clipping into the bodywork. - Driver's head no longer sticks out of the cars — the seat sits just under each car's roofline. - Roadside props in runs follow the slope and sit exactly on the rendered ground — no more floating or sinking on hills. - Office sofa faces into the room (backrest against the wall) instead of sideways. ### Version 1.2.3 Jun 13, 2026 · Version 1.2.3 Fully procedural geometry — new ShapeBuilder helper (assembles N boxes into a single Model + colliders); the van, Cyber GT, wheels and ~20 props are now built in code. **Added** - Fully procedural geometry — new ShapeBuilder helper (assembles N boxes into a single Model + colliders); the van, Cyber GT, wheels and ~20 props are now built in code. - Project-local material Assets/materials/flat.vmat (core complex shader) — always shipped, so it can never go missing. - 2 locally generated sounds — turret-shot.sound (turret fire) and music-bed.sound (6 s loopable pad), zero cloud. - Dev tool tools/mcp.py — HTTP client for the s&box MCP server (diagnosis, asset create/compile, in-play verification). **Improved** - Tinted props — concrete grey for decor, black rubber for wheels, rust red for fuel cans, brown for dead trees (no more pure white from the flat material). - Lit world material — terrain and ridges now catch the overcast sky light (slightly richer shading than before). **Fixed** - No more orange "ERROR" placeholders in the published build — all geometry is procedural, so it's guaranteed to ship (Cloud.Model assets weren't bundling reliably). - Garage floor — a second direct override to white\_flat.vmat (the last red surface) removed. - Red/black error checkerboard everywhere (floor, terrain, mountains, props, city) — caused by materials/dev/white\_flat.vmat removed by an s&box update; replaced with the project-local flat.vmat. **Removed** - All community cloud assets — no licensing question left for monetization. - Both cloud sounds (Cloud.SoundEvent) and all Cloud.Model calls. - Dead facepunch.cone\_dev reference in the .sbproj. ### First update Jun 13, 2026 · Version 1.2.2 The Gauntlet — a free, shared, infinite competitive map available to everyone, with a fixed seed so all players race identical terrain (fair leaderboard). **Added** - The Gauntlet — a free, shared, infinite competitive map available to everyone, with a fixed seed so all players race identical terrain (fair leaderboard). - Global leaderboard — top scores for The Gauntlet (\`versus\_distance\_m\`) fetched from the s&box backend and shown on the TAB scoreboard overlay (your own row highlighted). - TAB scoreboard overlay — sound volume slider on top, The Gauntlet leaderboard below. - SFX volume slider — player-set game volume, saved and applied to the Master mixer. - Enter to launch a run directly from the garage with the selected car. - Auto-stop on arrival — the car decelerates smoothly to a halt when reaching the garage. - Hide HUD with key \`1\` in runs and the garage (clean screenshots/video). - Stats reliability — stats are flushed to the backend right after a run, and each reported - stat is logged locally for verification. - Day / Night mode — chosen by the player on the route map, applied to every map. Night brings +30% zombies and +50% damage they deal, plus dark skies and heavier fog. The route map shows the trade-off inline. - Achievements & stats — run stats are now reported to the s&box backend (\`zombies\_killed\`, \`distance\_m\`, \`cash\_earned\`, \`runs\_finished\`, \`night\_runs\_finished\`, \`best\_combo\`, \`best\_distance\_m\`, \`endless\_distance\_m\`, \`cars\_owned\`, \`max\_car\_upgrades\`). - 20 achievements hang off these stats, from \*Roadkill Rookie\* to \*Lord of the Desert\*. - HUD toggle — press \`1\` in the garage to hide the HUD for clean screenshots. **Improved** - Run parallax reworked — a single coherent backdrop of 5 staged depth layers (3D ridges) from fast-scrolling foreground dunes to near-static distant peaks, replacing the old flat hill ribbons. Proper atmospheric perspective: farther layers are lighter, taller and slower. - Desert apron — a flat desert floor now fills the gap between the road and the parallax, - so the mountains rise from the plain instead of floating over a void. - Heavy-traffic slowdown — crushing many zombies in quick succession progressively bogs the car down. A weak ram plow gets mired in the bodies; a maxed ram plow plows straight through. - Spawn point — the player now spawns on the other side of the bed, closer to the office door. - Route map — the \`SELECTED\` marker and stage badges no longer wrap to two lines. **Fixed** - Run start crash — guarded driver clothing creation when no local avatar is available. - Bootstrap crash — an invalid \`Start\` gamepad code in the input config restored to \`None\`. - Enter not launching — duplicate key binding never fired; now uses the Chat action. - Player skin not applied — the garage character and the in-car driver appeared as a default citizen. The garage \`Dresser\` was sourcing from \`OwnerConnection\` (not set for a pre-placed single-player avatar); switched to \`LocalUser\` so it dresses from the player's s&box avatar. The in-run driver already uses \`ClothingContainer.CreateFromLocalUser()\`, so both now wear the - player's skin. - Parallax z-fighting — distant layers were cutting through the desert apron and flickering while scrolling. They are now pushed further out with shallow bases (sitting on the plain), with fog and far-clip extended to match. **Known issues** - Cloud models showed as "ERROR" in the published game ### Version 1.0.0 Jun 13, 2026 · Version 1.0.0