Undead World: Hero Survival  puts you into a world devastated by a zombie apocalypse. In an awesome zombie RPG adventure, you get to explore various parts of the zombie-ravaged world with your team of heroes powered by their unique set of skills. In this guide, we’ll learn the basics of battling zombies, managing heroes, collecting resources, and more in Undead World: Hero Survival. If you have not installed the game yet on your PC or Mac, you can do so now with BlueStacks by following this installation guide.

Table of Contents

1. Main Menu
2. Fundamentals of Heroes
3. Campaign Stages and Combat
4. Idling System

Main Menu

Let’s first familiarize ourselves with the main menu and what you can find there. There are five tabs in the menu that each lead you to different features of the game.

• Hideout – the hideout is your headquarters characterized by clean landscape and buildings. The hideout primarily consists of facilities like the Cantina where you can recruit new heroes into your team, the Caravan where you can purchase useful items from a merchant, the Guild where you can manage guild affairs, miscellaneous buildings like the Harbor and Leaderboard; and the Workshop, Guard Tower, Academy, and Command Center where you can upgrade your heroes. Each building in the Hideout is unlocked after clearing a certain campaign stage.

• Adventure – this is where you can embark on a journey to the destroyed parts of civilization to earn rewards to upgrade your heroes. The buildings that you can find are the Special Operation, Skyscraper, Arena, Radio, Midtown, Zombie Express, and Highway. Like the hideout, each building is unlocked after completing a certain campaign stage.

• Campaign – this is where you can access the main campaign and collect idle rewards. This is the default menu of the game.

• Heroes – all your owned heroes can be managed here. This is where you can select a hero to upgrade them as well as view their biographies via the index. Additionally, you can create preset teams here via the ‘Squads’ tab.

• Community – communicate with other survivors around the world through text channels.

Fundamentals of Heroes

Heroes are the most important characters in the game as they are responsible for fighting zombies for you. Each hero is characterized by their faction, class, biography, and skill sets that make them interesting people to put into your team.

• Factions – there are five factions in the game and the faction a hero belongs plays a role in the game’s faction bonus system. 

• The Hive – well-armed survivors led by the Matriarch and have built walls around the city to defend it from zombies.

• Collegium – composed of peaceful people who believe that humans deserve second chances

• Blue Banshees – free-roaming misfits who scavenge the world to survive

• Sugar Reapers – ruthless and dangerous people who thrive in a world of monsters

• The Altered – unusual characters who are neither human nor zombie yet are thirsty for vengeance
• Gungnir Tech – a former corporation that is surprisingly doing well in the apocalypse as if they have already anticipated it

The faction bonus system works by giving you attribute bonuses when you have a certain number of heroes belonging to the same faction in the team. There are a couple of combinations that give out different bonuses. Note that Altered and Gungnir factions fit with any faction for faction bonuses.

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• Types – each hero has a different fighting style, and this can be determined by their type. There are several hero types in the game.

• Melee – deal massive damage to enemies and provide cover for other heroes to attack

• Support – offer valuable support to the team whether it would be in the form of healing or temporary buffs

• Range – deal high amounts of damage from a distance

• AoE – heroes who can damage multiple enemies at once

• Tank – bulky heroes who provide cover and absorb damage for the squad

• Skills – each hero has a set of skills that comprise of various attacks for killing zombies. A hero can have up to four skills depending on their rank. Every hero has one ‘ultimate skill’ which is a very powerful attack that activates conditionally during battle. Skills can be upgraded whenever a hero reaches a certain level.
• Stats – heroes have hero stats that define things like health and damage. These stats are increased when heroes level up.
• HP – maximum health points
• ATK Power – amount of damage dealt
• DEF – amount of damage resisted
• ACC – chances of hitting a target
• EVA – chances of dodging incoming attacks
• CRT Rate – chances of performing a critical strike
• CRT DMG – damage inflicted from a critical strike

Campaign Stages and Combat

The main campaign revolves around your heroes exploring various parts of the world and clearing waves of zombies in each stage.

Before you battle a campaign stage, you must select up to five heroes for the battle. As mentioned, the game features a faction bonus system so consider of the factions of your selected heroes. Additionally, you can also view the total power of your team versus the total power of the enemies, and you can use this to gauge your chances of winning the battle.

During battle, all attacks are done automatically. For every successful attack a hero does, their ultimate skill meter fills up and once this gets full, you can activate their ultimate skill either manually or automatically. At the end of the day, you must eliminate all the zombies before time runs out and without having your entire squad wiped out.

Idling System

The game also has an idling system where you can passively generate valuable resources that you can use to upgrade heroes.

Idle rewards can be collected from the campaign menu. The game generates resources every minute and this goes on for 12 hours straight. Once you reach 12 hours, you will have reached the idle rewards cap and no more resources can be generated. You can collect the idle rewards even before the timer reaches 12 hours and can even collect two hours’ worth of rewards instantly via the ‘Instant Rewards’ feature.