Yet Another Zombie Survivors Guides

• Beginner Guide: What the Game Does Not Tell You

  Starting Yet Another Zombie Survivors 1.0? The squad is not co-op, damage types want stacking not spreading, and arenas unlock in a fixed chain. Start here.

• All 7 Game Modes and How Each One Unlocks

  All Yet Another Zombie Survivors modes explained — Default, Endurance, Hardcore, Extermination, One Hit, Infinite and the new Boss Rush, with unlock conditions.

• Items: All 21 New in 1.0, With Real Numbers

  The complete list of items added in Yet Another Zombie Survivors 1.0, plus the item effects and numbers the studio has actually published in patch notes.

• All 5 Arenas: Unlocks, Bosses and Hazards

  The Isolated City, Vile Wasteland, Green Hell, Dead Terminal and Bio Lab — how each arena unlocks, which boss ends it, and every arena achievement.

• Potato and Sanji the Rabbit, Explained

  What the Potato does in Yet Another Zombie Survivors, where Sanji the Rabbit is, and why the Curly Little Potato achievement is not about potatoes at all.

• Is Yet Another Zombie Survivors Co-op? The Squad, Explained

  No — Yet Another Zombie Survivors is single-player only. No online co-op, no local co-op, no crossplay. Here is what the three-survivor squad actually is.

• Luck, Cash and Damage Tags Explained

  What Luck, Cash, Specialization Points and damage-type tags actually do, with every number the studio has published in a patch note.

• Story Missions and the Camp, Explained

  Version 1.0 added 15 main story missions, 45 survivor questlines and 19 repeatable quests, all run from the Briefing Room. How the system works.

• Team Bond (formerly Friendship) Explained

  Team Bond permanently boosts the Cash and Specialization Points your whole squad earns. It was called Friendship until patch 1.0.0c, and it caps at 250.

• All 9 Survivors: Unlocks and Ranks

  Every survivor: how each unlocks, all five ranks, their personal mission chain and signature ability, with the achievement name for each.

• Torments: 28 Optional Extra-Hard Challenges

  Version 1.0 added 28 Torments — optional challenges in the Hall of Torments. Not achievements, and not needed for 100% completion.

• Zombie Defense vs Survivors: Which Is Which

  Three games, one studio. Defense and Defense HD are co-op base defence; Survivors is a single-player roguelite with no co-op at all.

• Steam Deck: Verified Since 2025, and How It Runs

  Yet Another Zombie Survivors is Steam Deck Verified — rated in November 2025. What Verified means here, and the accessibility settings worth changing.

• Version History: 1.0 and Every Launch Patch

  Yet Another Zombie Survivors patch notes from 1.0 onward — 1.0.0a, 1.0.0b, 1.0.0c and 1.0.0c2, with what each fixed and which achievements were affected.

• Builds and Squad Synergies Explained

  How builds actually work — cross-survivor synergies, damage-type stacking, weapon evolutions, and what version 1.0 changed about all three.

• PS5, Xbox and Switch: What Actually Shipped

  PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Series launched with 1.0. Switch did not and has no date. Switch 2 is not approved. There is no mobile version.

• Engineer: Turret Builds and Ice Turret

  Engineer is a starting survivor and the strongest of the three you begin with. He anchors turret builds, and the achievement Yet Another Zombie Defense — t

• Ghost: Kunai Dance and High-Ceiling Builds

  Ghost unlocks via Ghost In The Hell and is built around Kunai Dance, a high-ceiling Slashing burst kit. Ghost builds are heavily searched and heavily punis

• Huntress: Bow Builds and Single-Target Damage

  Huntress is the earliest survivor unlock, earned via The Hunt Is On!. Her bow line is single-target rather than crowd-clearing, which made her mediocre for

• Mechanic: Cooling Mods and Ice Conversion

  Mechanic unlocks via Need A Hand? and converts damage to Ice through Cooling Mods. Patch 1.0.0b reordered its damage instance so one-hit kills register as

• Medic: Medical Drone and Sustain Builds

  Medic unlocks via the achievement Medic! and centres on the Medical Drone, which heals while stationary and attacks while moving. A 2025 patch slowed its m

• Pyro: Fire Stacking and Burn Builds

  Pyro unlocks via Fired up! Ready to go! and stacks Fire damage through the flamethrower line. Fire has the widest status-effect support of the seven damage

• Ranger: The 1.0 Survivor, Unlocked at Level 175

  Ranger is the ninth survivor, added in version 1.0 and gated at Survival Level 175 — the only unlock number the studio has published. She fights with a cro

• SWAT: The Starting Survivor and Ricochet

  SWAT is one of three survivors you start with and has no unlock achievement. His Ricochet weapon evolves into Ricochet: Shattering, converting his Kinetic

• Tank: Bombing Strike and the Bioweapon Evolution

  Tank is a starting survivor built around Bombing Strike, which evolves into Bioweapon and shifts him from Explosive to Chemical damage. He is the most dire