Zombie Royale Beginner’s Guide: Tips, Cheats, and Strategies

Zombie Royale is basically Into the Dead-lite. You’ll run through a variety of levels shooting as many zombies as you can along the way. It’s simple stuff, with you running automatically, tapping the right of the screen to shoot, and sliding around on the left to dodge zombie’s attacks.

In this guide, we’re going to help you survive this particular apocalypse by providing a number of useful tips and tricks. We’ll help you shoot better, avoid zombies easier, and feel really good about yourself while doing it. Just don’t try any of these tips in a real apocalyptic scenario – we can’t guarantee they’ll work.

Zombie Royale Beginner’s Guide – How it Works:

Zombie Royale is a simple affair. Your goal in each of the game’s levels is to simply survive by avoiding the oncoming undead. Much like in its inspiration, Into the Dead, you run forward automatically and can slide your finger around the left side of the screen to strafe left and right.

You also have a gun though, and can use it to take out any zombies unfortunate enough to get in your path. It’s worth killing zombies for two reasons: it makes escaping them easier and you often receive cold, hard, cash as a reward for doing so.

What do you do with cash in an apocalyptic scenario? Save it up for better weapons, apparently. At the beginning you’ll just have a simple pistol with two ammo clips but you can trade that in for assault rifles, shotguns, sniper rifles, and more by saving up your money and spending it on a better weapon.

This, in turn, lets you kill a lot more zombies, which – you guessed it – allows you to earn more money and spend it on even bigger guns.

As you progress, you can also unlock a series of missions. These reward you for performing a variety of actions, from killing zombies with grenades to setting them on fire. Yes, all of the missions involve killing zombies in brutal ways. Complete them and you’ll earn more money.

Given that this is an ad-driven game, you can expect to watch an awful lot of advertisements. Fortunately for you, many of these ads will benefit you. For example, you can watch an advert to double your earnings, provide you with unlimited ammo temporarily, and get a cash injection if you’re close to earning that gun you want.

Zombie Royale – Tips and Tricks:

Now that you understand the basics, let’s take a look at how some more specific Zombie Royale tips and tricks:

• Focus on surviving: You get a cash reward just for completing levels so focus on survival over killing zombies. While the latter is more fun, killing zombies generally requires you to get stuck in, which increases your risk of death. If you die, you get no rewards for that run.
• Look out for special zombies: If a zombie is flashing red, chances are killing it will help you in some way. Zombies can explode, for example, taking out any nearby zombies with it. Focus on killing these first to make your life easier.
• Use your grenade when enemies are grouped: As you progress you’ll unlock a grenade, which you can use several times during a run. We recommend using it just as you’re approaching a big group to maximise its effect.

• Save your cash for better guns: Your beginner pistol really isn’t all that useful at killing zombies. It takes multiple shots and you really don’t have that many to begin with. We recommend saving up for a shotgun or assault rifle as quickly as possible.
• Complete missions whenever they’re available: Eeach few levels you’ll get a mission you can tackle for extra rewards. These typically don’t take longer than a few minutes to complete, and every little helps.

Glen Fox

Head of Editorial

Glen has over a decade's worth of experience in gaming journalism, writing for Pocket Gamer, Pocket Tactics, Nintendo Life, and Gfinity. When he's not badgering everyone about the dangers of passive text, you can probably find him playing Wild Rift.