Mall% Strategies [Updated 8-24-21]

Welcome to the first guide! I will be updating these guides as the community discovers more information and gets better at speedrunning the game.

Introduction - This level is extremely straightforward, which makes sense. Take out the first human on the right, take out the leftmost human with one zombie while sending another to the other human. In a perfect world, the human runs right into your one zombie. In a less perfect world, it takes an extra second or two when she runs into your other zombies.

Lower Mall - Another really straightforward level. Take out the man on the bottom, and then the man in the top left with the two zombies. Use the split strategy to take him down faster. After that, use one zombie to take out the fast lady and then use the other two zombies to corner the last two humans. If one of the ladies manages to run out, your other two zombies should be ready to catch them.

Sports Store - There isn't a lot to think about for this level - send one zombie to obtain the detonation power-up, and then have one zombie ready to be blown up immediately. After that, it's a pretty simple clean-up. Make sure to take out the old people first to make the bat guy a little easier to take down.

Supermarket - This is easily the stage with the most room for improvement. For now, here is the strategy I follow: take out the woman on top, and use both zombies to take out bag lady using the stacking method. After this, I would send a least one zombie to grab the speed power-up while you should use all other zombies to corner the humans as efficently as possible. Then, just devour humans systematically while using the power-up to your advantage. I will get a more concrete strategy for this level soon.

Upper Mall - Somehow the most straightforward level so far. Grab the power-ups, and use the disguise on one of the zombies. Have the other zombie stand just above the line for the door entrance and use the screech power-up. Devour as fast as possible.

The Cinema - The final level is not too tricky. First, you will send all three zombies out: the first one will grab the disguise power-up, the second will be heading to the gangsters' room and will put on the disguise and grab the power-up, and the third will be positioned near the windows to blow them open. After this, use the disguised zombie to grab the older lady. MAKE SURE THAT THE FAST LADY DOES NOT GET AWAY. This is a really easy mistake to make - block her escape routes so you don't have to chase her later on. After this, it's pretty straightforward to get the rest of the civilians. Make sure none of the civilians escape by using a divide and conquer method. Finally, you can take out the gangsters and you will have more than enough zombies. From my experience, they end up killing around 8 zombies on average. Make sure to have at least this amount to take them down (and the more you have, the safer).

Jeser101

Zombie Dawn

Lower Mall

Sports Store

Supermarket

Upper Mall

The Cinema

Welcome to the Zombie Dawn speedrunning community!

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