Steam · coming soonA 2012 iPad game, raised from the dead
Hole up inside your small farmhouse and use a stockpile of guns, explosive traps and deadly foliage to stand your ground and defend against the undead horde.
Survive the night and earn Farm Cash to spend at Geezer’s Survivables, the shop run by the wisecracking hillbilly, Geezer. He sells the flowers, gardening supplies, fully automatic weapons and explosives you need to keep the horde at bay.
Can you protect the farm from the zombie hordes bent on its destruction?
Plays in your browser · First load downloads about 510 MBMore than a fresh new coat of paint.
Not only have we updated all of the game's original graphics, we have also enhanced the gameplay to create a smoother, more polished experience, resolving many bugs and problems from the original. We have tried to touch every element in the game, from its sound effects to its special effects and particle systems.
28 campaign nights · 53 waves · weapons to unlock and upgradeFarmkill Remastered
Play the demo now directly in your browser! Includes the first 9 Nights and the Farm Chill mode.
Unlock 10 new farm themes with Farm Cash earned through gameplay. From snowy cottages to a castle of your own, choose a home and make it yours. No microtransactions.
From @iENDERi · creator of the remaster
The story of how we took a nearly 15-year-old iPad game and collaborated with AI to remaster it as a PC game.
Farmkill began taking shape in 2011 as a light parody of FarmVille mixed with Plants vs. Zombies. By day, you built a small farm, planting flowers and decorating it. Each night, a growing horde of zombies arrived to tear it all down.
At night, it became wave-based tower defense—and you were the tower! Holed up in your farmhouse, you used a stockpile of weapons to stand your ground and defend your plants. Survive the night and you earned Farm Cash to spend at Geezer’s Survivables, the shop run by our wisecracking hillbilly, Geezer. He sold flowers and gardening supplies alongside the fully automatic weapons and explosives you needed to keep the horde away.
At the time we had seen the success of the “Free to Play” games and decided to try our hand at making one ourselves so with our small three man team we created Farmkill. Making the game Free to Play had the potential to help the game gain a large user base but the game needed to be able to earn money for our business, which had an influence on its game design. So we decided to try to deliver as polished of an experience as possible to make the game really fun for people so that if they did decide to spend money that it would be worth it.
The game resonated with many people gaining well over 300,000 downloads on the Apple App Store as well as a decent number of downloads on Android devices. Mixing elements of humor, strategy, planning and quick reflexes made Farmkill’s game loop funny and addictive. People loved the Geezer Character and the gameplay and overall experience.
When Farmkill found an audience on the App Store many people who didn't have an Apple device began requesting an Android version. Assuming that we would find the same success for the game on Android devices we began the process of creating an Android version. A process that for our small team ended up spreading us way too thin due to technical challenges. After a difficult development period the Android version came out six months later on August 2012 receiving only around 71,000 downloads with much lower revenue.
By that time the iOS audience had moved on, the majority of its players having completed the games content. I always thought it would be cool to follow February’s nights with another month: a new set of nights, new zombies and a reason to keep coming back. But we spread ourselves too thin. We weren’t in a position to make that next chapter happen, and eventually we moved on to other things.
As technology moved on, Farmkill couldn’t. New phones and tablets kept arriving with updated operating systems and old versions of the game were not able to remain available on iOS or Android marketplaces without being updated.
We didn’t have the time or resources to keep maintaining Farmkill alongside everything else we were doing and eventually it disappeared from the store, becoming inaccessible to anyone. And in the years since it was created our team changed, making the idea of a remake or a sequel seemed extremely unlikely. It always made me sad when I heard about a game that got lost to time, becoming inaccessible for some reason and Farmkill along with several other of our games have fallen victim to this.
But the game’s fans never forgot about it. Over the years, every so often, someone would message me asking if Farmkill 2 was coming or if we could re-release the original game. A question I always had to say no to.
And then in July 2026, I received an email from a fan saying...
“Really enjoyed your game back in the day, inspired me to create my own games when I got older. Sadly I can't find your game anywhere I was wondering if you had an APK file or something like that? Cheers!”
This gave me pause. I’ve been a gamer all my life, and hearing that Farmkill had inspired someone to make games of their own reminded me how much a game can mean to a person. I wanted to do something.
I’d been using Codex to speed up the data entry work on Adventure Craft, and I was amazed by what it could do. I’d also seen people use tools like it to bring old games onto newer hardware. Maybe Farmkill wasn’t as lost as I’d thought.
“I wonder if I can remaster the game somehow, or at least get it working again.”
Adventure Craft was already a massive project for two people, so taking on another game hadn’t seemed realistic.
But the fan’s message arrived just as those tools were changing what we could manage. Perhaps we could get Farmkill running again.
I had ChatGPT look at the old game files. There was a lot to untangle, including old services like Tapjoy that no longer belonged in the experience. I told the person who had written to me that revisiting it might actually be possible, opened a Codex project and started rebuilding.
Codex got the old build running on my PC almost immediately. Within minutes, I was playing Farmkill again! That was the light bulb moment. I started rebuilding its systems one by one, and what began as an attempt to get an old game working grew into a full remaster, with improved graphics, sound, and gameplay.
I began with the old graphics, collaborating with AI to restore them into crisper, much higher resolution assets. The more I worked on it with Codex, the more I wanted to see what else we could bring to it: extra visual flair, richer effects, even weather that could occasionally help you in a fight.
The old soundscape needed attention too. The original only had a handful of generic banjo tracks with one song seeming to play over and over. Suno helped me make a broader soundtrack. ElevenLabs helped me give Geezer a voice and bring new sounds to the farm.
And then there were the cutscenes. Using MiniMax’s video tools, I could put fully animated scenes into a game that had started life on a phone and tablet. That was something I had never imagined being able to afford for Farmkill. Seeing those scenes come to life was one of the most exciting parts of the whole process.
I took on the remaster myself, part-time, with more room to imagine than we’d had the first time around. Codex made the rebuild possible for me, and the other tools let me try ideas that would once have been far beyond our time and budget. There was still plenty of choosing, reviewing, fixing and figuring things out, but those ideas were finally possible.
The remaster also gave me the chance to change the part that had bothered me from the start: the pressure to sell Farm Cash. This time you earn it by playing. I could finally build toward the experience I wanted people to have.
PC is the first step. I would love to bring Farmkill back to platforms like the iPad after that. For now, I’m excited that someone who remembers this little game can visit the farm again—and someone who has never heard of it can discover it for the first time.
Here’s a comparison of the graphics of the old game with the new upscaled and revised graphics.
The zombies in the original game were prerendered 3D models on 2D Sprite Sheets so we upscaled all of them to give them higher fidelity.
The familiar slouch. The questionable fashion sense. Now you can get a much closer look at both.
One creator, working part-time with AI
Farmkill Remastered was made by James Anderson - @iENDERi, working part-time in collaboration with ChatGPT Codex and a suite of A.I. tools. The original game came from a three-person studio; this remaster was one person’s return to it. A.I. opened up time and creative capacity across programming, artwork, sound and video, making ideas practical that would otherwise have stayed on the wish list. A.I. helped do in two and a half weeks of part time work what would have easily taken a year and a lot of money to achieve. Enabling not just a simple remaster but a refreshed project with substantial new content as well.
The creative direction stayed personal
The original game, the ideas for its return and the decisions about what belonged in it came from its creator. AI made it possible to explore and implement far more of those ideas in the time available. That expanded creative reach is the story of this remaster.
Understanding the creative reach
Without A.I. assistance, Edible Entertainment, a team of one artist and one programmer, would not have been able to remaster Farmkill. Instead, the game would have been lost to time. The comparison below estimates the potential cost of creating a remaster of this scope through traditional development, covering programming, artwork, sound, video and testing.
Estimated traditional labour to reproduce this scope
These are planning assumptions, not invoices or measured AI savings. The 4–9 month schedule assumes four specialists averaging 140 productive project hours each per month; staffing can vary by phase. Hours reflect a conventional team recreating code, assets, audio, video and testing; the rate is adjustable. The project inventory includes 293 restored gameplay textures, 28 nights, 53 waves and at least 144 recorded Geezer clips. Actual cost would depend on scope, talent, revisions and location.
The farm is yours again
Play the browser demo now. The full 28-night remaster is on its way to Steam.
