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Yet Another Zombie Survivors Guide & Wiki
Yet Another Zombie Survivors 1.0 guide: all 229 achievements, 9 survivors, 5 arenas, item and weapon data. Updated for patch 1.0.0c.
Official Trailer Latest Updates
- MINOR Sub-hotfix 1.0.0c2 lands, fixing a Bio Lab Boss Rush final boss issue.
- MAJOR Patch 1.0.0c renames Friendship to Team Bond and caps it at 250. Older guides still using the Friendship name are describing the same stat.
- MINOR 1.0.0c also fixes the Monkey Business achievement, tags Last Unicorn as a healing item, and restores save-slot deletion.
- MINOR Patch 1.0.0b unlocks the 60 FPS cap on gameplay interfaces and makes the Bio Lab arena selectable on the leaderboards.
- MAJOR Version 1.0 releases after three years in Early Access: Ranger, the Bio Lab arena, Boss Rush mode, the Survivors' Camp hub, 88 new achievements and 21 new items.
Field Report
What is Yet Another Zombie Survivors?
Yet Another Zombie Survivors is a bullet heaven roguelite by Awesome Games Studio, available on PC, PS4/PS5, Xbox One/Series. It left Early Access on 20 August 2026 after three years, and version 1.0 was the size of roughly four content updates at once: a ninth survivor (Ranger), a fifth arena (Bio Lab), Boss Rush mode, a hub location called the Survivors' Camp with over 1,000 lines of dialogue, 88 new achievements, 21 new items and 28 Torments.
One thing the store page states plainly but the marketing hides: this is single-player only. You command a squad of up to three survivors, but you command all of them — they aim and fire on their own, and there is no co-op of any kind. The squad is a build system, not a lobby. What you actually optimise is which three survivors you take, which of the seven damage types you stack, and which weapon evolutions you commit to before the horde scales past you.
Yet Another Zombie Survivors Screenshots
Get Started in 5 Steps
- Stop looking for the co-op button. There isn't one — the squad is single-player, and knowing that up front stops you playing it wrong.
- Clear The Isolated City on Default first. Arenas unlock in a chain, and Bio Lab sits behind Dead Terminal, which sits behind the ones before it.
- Pick a damage type and commit. Tags scale with how many you stack, so spreading across all seven is the classic new-player mistake — see how tags, Luck and Cash actually work.
- Do missions between runs. Every mission raises Team Bond, which permanently boosts the Cash and Specialization Points the whole squad earns. It caps at 250.
- Use Survival Level as your real progress bar. It gates the ninth survivor at 175 and has achievements at 100, 200, 300 and 400.
The Briefing Room
Data Pages & Full Lists
All 229 Achievements
Every unlock condition, in a filterable table.
TIERSurvivor Tier List
All 9 survivors ranked as leader and as support.
TIERWeapon Tier List
Base weapons and their tier-3 evolutions.
ANSWERIs There Co-op?
The squad is not multiplayer. What that actually means.
DATAPlayer Count
Live concurrent players on Steam.
PLATFORMSConsole & Switch Status
What shipped on 20 Aug and what did not.
Mission Log
Every Guide On This Wiki
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
FAQ
Is Yet Another Zombie Survivors co-op or multiplayer?
No. The Steam store page lists Single-player and nothing else — there is no online co-op, no local co-op, no crossplay. The confusion is understandable: you command a squad of up to three survivors, and the marketing says 'assemble your squad'. But you control all of them at once, and they aim and fire on their own. Every 'multiplayer' feature in the game is asynchronous: Steam Leaderboards, and Family Sharing for the licence itself.
Is this the same game as Yet Another Zombie Defense HD?
No, but they are by the same studio and share a universe. Yet Another Zombie Defense HD is the older top-down base-defence game; Yet Another Zombie Survivors is the 2023 bullet-heaven roguelite that left Early Access on 20 August 2026. The link is acknowledged in-game: the achievement named 'Yet Another Zombie Defense' asks you to have three different turret-type abilities deployed at once.
How many achievements does Yet Another Zombie Survivors have?
229 as of version 1.0.0c. Version 1.0 added 88 of them on its own, and 64 of those 88 are Story achievements tied to the new mission system. This site lists all 229 with their exact unlock conditions.
How This Wiki Is Maintained
Yet Another Zombie Survivors Wiki is an independent, unofficial fan resource for Yet Another Zombie Survivors players — not affiliated with Awesome Games Studio.
- How we verify: Every achievement name and unlock condition on this site is transcribed from the live Steam achievement list for app 2163330, not retyped from memory or from another wiki. Item and mission counts come from the studio’s own 1.0 changelog, quoted with its publication date.
- Update cadence: Awesome Games Studio shipped four patches in the first nine days of 1.0. Data pages are re-checked against the Steam news feed within 48 hours of each hotfix, and the version they were last checked against is printed on the page.
- What we don't do: No estimated numbers dressed up as facts. Where the studio has not published a value — individual rank unlock thresholds, most item stats — this site says so instead of guessing, and it does not host trainer, cheat-table or cracked-build links.