North Yankton plus zombies seems to have been a big enough deal for a whopping 400,000 GTA Online players to quickly jump into the mode within its first 24 hours, according to GTAO Stats. That number has rocketed passed the one million marks over the last few days, too.

It’s arguable that GTA Online’s Halloween event is proving somewhat popular. The zombie-slaughtering North Yankton Nightmare, added to the game along with GTA V’s opening location, Ludendorff, has been so popular Rockstar had to increase the community challenge goals ten-fold.

GTA 5's new zombie game mode has attracted 1.2 million players since October 10, with the Halloween-themed update performing better than expected

On 10th October, Rockstar launched a new survival mode and a community challenge that took us back to North Yankton to collectively slay 80 million zombies in order to unlock "special gifts", including a spooky-season appropriate Orange Glow Skeleton Onesie and the Red Hooded Skull Mask.

GTA Online has introduced a Halloween game mode, Ludendorff Cemetery Survival. The horde shooter game mode is wildly popular with players. You can unlock an outfit if you survive ten waves. GTA Online added a temporary 'spooktastic' game mode for the Halloween season,

Grand Theft Auto V’s starting location (snowy North Yankton) is finally being added to GTA Online as part of an upcoming, limited-time zombie survival mode that is arriving in the game next week.

For the first time in GTA 5 history, Rockstar is bringing the forces of the undead to its open world crime simulator. A new limited time mode will bring zombies to the game’s online mode as well as returning to North Yankton.

Pretty much every major live service game will do something for Halloween. Call of Duty has The Haunting, Apex has Trick N' Treat Trios, and Fortnite has Fortnitemares. In previous years, GTA Online would also give players "four weeks of nonstop mischief" during October,