
Beginner Guide
Learn the basic run loop, squad recruitment, leveling, permanent upgrades, items and early progression choices so your first teams can survive longer without wasting resources.
Build a squad instead of relying on a single survivor. Rescue teammates during each run, combine weapons and abilities into powerful synergies, clear increasingly dangerous arenas and push permanent progression until thousands of zombies become little more than target practice.

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Four verified systems to understand before you optimize a three-person squad.

Learn the basic run loop, squad recruitment, leveling, permanent upgrades, items and early progression choices so your first teams can survive longer without wasting resources.

Compare all nine Survivors, their weapons, abilities and team roles, then build squads that combine damage, support, critical hits, status effects and survivability.

Understand weapon evolutions, ability combinations and cross-Survivor synergies so you can turn individual upgrades into powerful endgame builds.

Progress through Camp missions, character questlines, Boss Rush, arena bosses and unlock requirements while tracking rewards and long-term progression.
Yet Another Zombie Survivors is a squad-based bullet heaven action roguelite developed and published by Awesome Games Studio. Each run begins with one Survivor, but SOS encounters let you recruit up to two additional teammates and combine their automatic attacks, abilities and upgrades into a three-person build.
Version 1.0 expands the original survival loop with the Survivors' Camp, story and character missions, Friendship, Rank 5 skill trees, more synergies, Boss Rush, Torments, new items and bosses. Between runs, permanent progression makes future squads stronger while different Survivor combinations create new strategies.
Explore All GuidesFrom your first Survivor to optimized three-person squads, Rank 5 builds, powerful synergies and Boss Rush clears, our guides help you turn every run into a stronger one.