Call of Duty has officially made a statement quashing recent rumors about a potential standalone Call of Duty: Zombies game to launch in the future. The long-running shooter franchise has featured a wide variety of different ways to play the game throughout its storied history, with many different game modes and even spin-offs. Beyond the franchise mainstays like Team Deathmatch and Capture the Flag, Call of Duty: Warzone has brought a battle royale spin to the franchise, typically receiving updates with each new main-series game. However, Zombies has stood the test of time as a Call of Duty classic.
Zombies has been a staple of the Call of Duty franchise since the game mode was first introduced as Nazi Zombies in Call of Duty: World at War. The co-op PvE game mode tasks players with defending themselves against growing hordes of zombie enemies, upgrading their base, and repairing barriers to keep the zombified attackers at bay. The Zombies game mode has appeared in most Treyarch-developed Call of Duty games since its initial debut, with some fans even calling for the developer to create a standalone Zombies game. However, the developers have now confirmed a Zombies game will not be coming anytime soon.
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Call of Duty Squashes Rumors of Standalone Zombies Game
The official Twitter account for Call of Duty recently quashed rumors of a potential standalone Zombies game for a future console. The rumor had suggested that Treyarch was working on a standalone game based on Call of Duty‘s Zombies mode that was expected to release as a launch title for the next generation of Xbox consoles. The game was said to be a simultaneous release alongside a traditional Call of Duty game, implying that the Zombies standalone game would be updated each year, similar to Warzone. Call of Duty rebuffed the claims by suggesting that they were the result of the “rumor factory working overtime,” debunking any rumblings of a fully standalone Zombies game.
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While Call of Duty denied the development of a standalone Zombies game, replies to the post clearly showed the desire for more Zombies content. Many fans echoed the sentiment of wanting the series to create a fleshed-out game based entirely on the Zombies mode, with some suggesting that the rumored spinoff could be a huge success. One fan pointed out an example of the potential popularity of a Zombies game, with Call of Duty: Black Ops 3‘s Zombie Chronicles expansion widely believed to be the franchise’s best-selling DLC of all time.
The lack of a new Zombies game comes as Call of Duty has seen some huge rumors about the franchise’s future. Recent information from a prominent leaker has suggested that the franchise’s 2027 game release will be the first entry in a brand-new Call of Duty subseries. The subseries’ inaugural title is also reportedly going to be missing a Zombies mode itself, with Sledgehammer Games leading development on the new subseries. The rumored game will be the first time the series has launched a new subseries since 2021’s Call of Duty: Vanguard.
Alongside Call of Duty‘s brand-new subseries, leaks have already begun to hint at 2026’s big release for the franchise. New leaks have suggested that Call of Duty will be returning to the Modern Warfare series in 2026, with Infinity Ward rumored to be working on Modern Warfare 4. The new game is said to boast similar multiplayer gameplay to 2022’s Modern Warfare 2, with the game also rumored to be dropping the PS4 and Xbox One and solely launching on PC and newer consoles. Call of Duty looks to keep as busy as ever, with multiple new games in the works by its team of development studios.