Touch The Dead is one of those DS games that actually makes the stylus feel essential—you’re frantically tapping zombies in the face before they claw at you, and the controls just work. It’s basically a stripped-down House of the Dead, but with way more panic because you’re drawing circles around heads to snipe them or jabbing at limbs to slow them down. The first time a wave pours in from all sides, you’ll probably fumble the stylus. (I did.)

Graphics are about what you’d expect from an early DS shooter—gritty, a little janky, but the zombies have this gross charm to them. Sound design does most of the heavy lifting, with moans and gunshots making it way tenser than it has any right to be. Pro tip: go for headshots early. You’ll run out of ammo fast otherwise.

It’s short, messy, and exactly the kind of thing you’d play in one sitting while pretending your dorm room is a zombie bunker. Works surprisingly well on emulator too, if your touchscreen aim isn’t terrible.