when you start off you got nothing but 1 z coin to buy a character so if you hate the homeless white guy look you can go for a clown or something else but just play a run and try your best to survive and make money

after you die you hopefully made enough money to start buying the perk 'Daddy Warbucks' and 'Radioactive', which lets you start getting more money and start having some hp regen to not die from too many papercuts.


the goal is to balance buying both 'Daddy Warbucks' and 'Grave Robber' upgrades which both work to get more money, and since grave robber works with melee weapons only we will have to ditch whatever else you enjoy and start bashing zombie heads in. I used the bat during most of my gameplay but in hindsight i think the katana would be a better pick because it has both the melee and precision tag so it can get more damage perks for it to be one hitting longer


now the goal is to either get a few thousand melee kills to get the flame edge or all 40 Z Coins to get the mageblade. either are both insanely strong because of multiple reasons;
- Infinite usage cause no ammo needed
- Both give more money with grave robber
- Elemental weapons stun zombies AND make it so the exploding fat ones dont explode
- Can be strong enough to one hit normal zombies beyond round 20 and can handle hordes with ease

Realistically unless you gun it for the mageblade you will get those couple thousand melee kills for the flame edge which allows you to also have made enough money to max out the money making perks and upgrade some damage ones for the weapon types youre using. ]If you do hunt for the Z Coins just try to memorize locations like the stores since they are static and can actually be used to find out where you are relative to everything else.

Congratulations you played enough to get either of the melee weapons and can now find out for yourself just how easy they make the game and therefore can easily make enough money to use everything else you wont need


Edit: after trying it out ive learned that mageblade (probably flame edge too) with vampire and the hp + damage taken perks maxed out you can just sit in a corner and auto click and survive to 50+ you only really die to the cursed big bulky guys all the other enemy types are no issue and you just keep regening so if you want a ton of money have fun

have fun being able to play absentmindedly

(proof of melee weapon power)