7 Best VR Survival Games for Meta Quest (And PCVR)

Something about Virtual Reality just makes for great Survival Games, especially on standalone platforms like the Oculus Quest 2. Oh, and if you’re here for PCVR games then you’ll find that most of these are also available on Steam.

Maybe it’s the feeling of actually being inside of the world you’re playing in, or using your actual hands to use the tools you need to keep yourself alive. Whatever it is you’d be crazy not to try VR Survival Games on the Quest 2, it is one of the best genres to experience in Virtual Reality.

The Survival Game genre has seen a massive boost in recent years with many great flatscreen games coming out like Valheim and Sons Of The Forest, and luckily some studios have also been focusing on this genre in Virtual Reality. More and more VR Survival Games have been coming out over the years, and as more are added to the Quest platform we’ll also be adding them to this list here.

So here are the best VR Survival Games on the Oculus Quest 3 and Quest 2.

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The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners Chapters 1 and 2 - VR Zombie Survival Games

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Well known as one of the greatest VR game series out there, The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners and its newest iteration The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners - Chapter 2: Retribution are knockout Zombie Survival Games on the Quest 2 based in the universe of The Walking Dead.

If you are even neutral on the concept of a zombie apocalypse you should play these games. Not only are there a ton of zombies (or rather walkers) to dispatch with one of the most straightforward yet elegant melee combat systems in VR survival gaming, but there are also human NPCs to get into firefights with and advance a very compelling story.

In this VR Survival Game there are a ton of zombies and people to fight with a variety of melee weapons and firearms

Most importantly to fans of VR Survival Games, not only will you have to fight to survive, but you will have to scavenge the ruins of New Orleans for materials to craft weapons, medical supplies, and food. Each day you will find less and less as supplies and materials from before the outbreak become scarcer and scarcer.

You’ve probably already heard of The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners, and that’s for good reason. It is one of the few VR games to combine a dangerous open world with a variety of secrets and systems to draw you into the gameplay, as well as a great story.

So if you’ve ever wanted to see how well you would do surviving in a zombie apocalypse, there’s really no better VR Survival Game I can recommend to you than The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners and it’s sequel. It’s got fantastic combat, heart pounding moments, and compelling characters.

Cosmodread - VR Sci Fi Horror Survival Game

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Zombies are scary, sure, but what if they don’t scratch that scare itch for you like they used to?

Well if horror is what you want in your Virtual Reality survival game then Cosmodread is the scariest survival game on the Quest 2. In it you attempt to repair and fly a half destroyed and alien infested ship back to Earth. Along the way you collect crafting recipes to create more weapons and items to help you survive in this VR roguelike horror survival game.

Cosmodread combines resource scarcity and terrifying enemies to make for a fantastic VR Roguelike Survival experience

Cosmodread is not only one of the best survival games on the Quest 2, but one of the best horror games. It’s terrifying looking enemies and creepy sound design will have you sweating to open a door and jumping at dark corners. The creaks of the decaying ship combined with the disgusting fleshy sounds of the alien growth means you never feel truly safe.

You shouldn’t feel safe, either, as the aliens only grow stronger as time goes on, and they can find you anywhere.

Cosmodread uses resource scarcity and an interesting crafting system to make you think on your feet and use every resource available to you to make your way from one end of the ship to the other through all of the dangerous aliens and malfunctioning robots so that you can make it back to earth and survive.

There’s really no other VR Survival Game like it, and when you’re low on ammo and hear the roar of an alien on your trail there’s nothing scarier in Virtual Reality.

Green Hell VR - VR Jungle Survival Game

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If you want a survival experience that takes you far away from civilization and deep into the bowls of the Amazon rainforest, then Green Hell VR is the game for you. The jungle is an unforgiving place in this VR Survival Game, and so are its inhabitants.

When you are not hunting for food or figuring out which plants will make you vomit up all your nutrients, you’ll be fighting for your life against predators like pumas and leopards, and the native tribespeople who are very unhappy with your presence.

Green Hell VR combines a fantastic crafting system which involves combining items in your hands with intuitive actions like wrapping vines around a simple stone axe to make it stronger, or running a sharpened stone across a long piece of wood to make a sharp spear.

Even the leeches in the water make surviving in Green Hell VR’s jungles difficult

Gathering resources from the jungle and then building your tools and campsites out of the natural resources of the Amazon makes the most basic necessities of survival feel difficult to achieve and very earned when you do.

For a more rugged and true to life survival experience, there is no better game than Green Hell VR. It’s less combat focused than other survival games here, though there is plenty of combat to be had, and you’ll find that in Green Hell VR you’re far more challenged by more true to life challenges of survival like building your camp, finding the right food to eat, and staying hydrated.

Also just like its flatscreen counterpart Green Hell VR has seen and will continue to see updates like it has with the addition of the free Spirits of Amazonia DLC that was recently added. Now there’s new environments, new objectives, and new ways to survive in this fantastic VR Survival Game. It just keeps getting better.

Into the Radius - Surreal VR Survival Shooter Game

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What is a list of VR Survival Games for the Quest 2 without Into the Radius? Inspired by Roadside Picnic, the book which also inspired the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. movie and games, Into the Radius combines fantastic gunplay with a surreal and dangerous setting.

In it you are an explorer navigating the Pechorsk Radius, a wide section of land in Russia dominated by a massive black sphere hanging in the sky where the usual laws of reality do not apply.

While completing missions for the mysterious Committee you have to fight off hostile entities, which look a lot like humans (in most cases) but made of a strange black material, while also navigating fields of deadly anomalies that hold valuable and otherworldly artifacts inside.

Into the Radius has very intense and scary fighting

Into the Radius gives you a wide variety of weapons to choose from, which all handle incredibly well in Virtual Reality, and it’s gunplay is definitely a huge draw for this VR Survival Game. What enhances it beyond a normal shooter is not only the need to scavenge and hunt for artifacts to survive, but the mystery of the Pechorsk Zone.

Delving deeper and deeper into the Radius towards greater danger, while discovering bizarre sights and uncovering more about this strange place, is what makes Into the Radius a Virtual Reality Survival Game like no other.

Into the Radius is a classic of the VR Shooter and VR Survival genre, and it’s even got a sequel on the way, Into the Radius 2.

Song in the Smoke - Prehistoric Caveman VR Survival Game

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Want a survival experience that not only takes you far from civilization, but back in time before civilization even existed? Then Song in The Smoke might be what you’re looking for. In this VR Survival Game you are a caveperson discovering the secrets of the land as you craft a number of tools and weapons to hunt and fight prehistoric creatures.

Surviving the vicious predators of a wilderness before time is the hard part, but there is also a lot of fun to be had in the exploration of Song in the Smoke’s untouched wilderness. Not only do you find the sticks and stones needed to create your weapons, but mystical herbs and fruits to craft powerful elixirs.

Song in the Smoke immerses you in its mysticism from the very beginning, and through its many areas you can find secrets that not only reveal more of the forest around you, but your own potential.

Medieval Dynasty VR - A VR Medieval Life Simulator and VR Survival Game

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Medieval Dynasty New Settlement, or rather Medieval Dynasty VR, is a VR remake for the Meta Quest 3 and Meta Quest 2 of the 2021 flatscreen medieval life simulator Medieval Dynasty. Unlike other Virtual Reality survival games on this list, Medieval Dynasty VR focuses more on being a life simulator than a purely survival focused experience.

This means you'll be spending a lot of time talking to the locals, completing tasks for them, and most importantly building a thriving settlement of your own on any of a few available plots of free land. It's very satisfying to go from nothing to putting up your first house to sleep and cook in, to erecting a huge variety of crafting and storage buildings to harvest all kinds of resources and make all kinds of tools.

What is most satisfying about Medieval Dynasty VR is engaging with its huge variety of crafting systems to make all sorts of things from tools to planks to pottery and beyond, and most importantly gathering and constructing buildings. You can even hire workers to work on your land for you and find a wife to marry and have children to continue your dynasty in future generations.

Stirring up some soup in Medieval Dynasty VR

While Medieval Dynasty New Settlement might not have the most satisfying end game at the moment, because those quests and tasks do eventually dry up and become repetitive, it does have a huge map to explore and secret treasures to find as well.

Uncovering the mysteries of Green Valley, the place where you are building your new home, offers some survival challenges of its own, though it is not hard to keep yourself hydrated and fed in this game, and the combat could use some more work.

Still, it is so satisfying to build yourself and your new home up from nothing, and there are many hours of fun to be had going from a nobody to a well respected local landowner in Medieval Dynasty VR.

If you want to know more about this fantastic VR game then check out our review of Medieval Dynasty: New Settlement.

Survivorman VR: The Descent - A VR Survival Game For Teaching You Real Survival Tactics

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Survivorman VR: The Descent is, of all of the VR Survival Games on this list of Virtual Reality Survival games, the most aimed at realism and teaching you actual survival tactics for the real world.

In this Virtual Reality game, you play as a survivor of a helicopter crash on a cold and desolate mountain. From the start you have very little to work with, and the cold and darkness of the arctic wastes that you have to survive in closing in around you. Luckily survival expert Les Stroud will tell you exactly what you need to do in order to stay alive, stay dry, stay warm, and stay fed.

Survivorman VR: The Descent is more of a survival learning tool than a real game, but is very interesting nonetheless. If you're interested in VR games for the purpose of learning actual things about the real world, then I highly suggest you take a look at this one.

The downside of Survivorman is that it's less a game and more a way to introduce you to these methods of real world survival for this potential real world situation. There is very little replayability, and it functions more as an interactive lecture than a game in the traditional sense of the word. It's also a very short VR survival experience at just a couple of hours.

Still, if you're really interested in survival in the real world instead of just the virtual world, give Survivorman VR: The Descent a look and see if you've got what it takes to listen to Les Stroud's advice and stay alive on the mountain.

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5 Best VR Zombie Games on the Oculus Quest 2 and 3

Do you know what makes Zombies more terrifying? When they’re right in front of your actual, physical eyes and face.

That’s why VR Zombie Games are some of the most intense and scary experiences to be found on the Meta Quest 3 and 2 (not to mention PCVR). The zombies sound and look like they’re right in front of you, and nothing feels more like being under attack by the undead than fighting them off with your actual hands.

Zombies have been a huge part of horror culture since the 60s through their appearance in movies, shows, and games. Now you can experience them even more personally than ever before through the magic of Virtual Reality Zombie Games.

Whether you want to gun down hordes of the undead with a machine gun or chop them to bits with a hatchet, there are some great choices as far as VR Zombie games go on the Oculus Quest 2 and 3.

If you’re eager to fight hordes of the undead, scavenge for supplies, and survive in a ruined world filled with flesh eating creature then here are 5 of the best VR Zombie games on the Meta Quest store for you to try.

The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners Chapters 1 and 2

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There is no doubt that The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners and its sequel The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners - Chapter 2: Retribution is the finest example of a VR Zombie Game that you will find on the Oculus Quest 2, or anywhere.

Set in the universe of The Walking Dead, these games bring you to the flooded and zombie infested streets of a post-apocalyptic New Orleans.

You play as the Tourist, who comes to New Orleans in search of a government bunker called “The Reserve.” This game is part survival horror and part zombie shooter. You will have to fight your way through zombies (or rather “walkers”) and the human factions vying for power over New Orleans in order to find and open The Reserve.

Sneaking away from a group of zombies in the VR Zombie Game The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners

You will also have to gather weapons and supplies, as well as the raw materials from junk items you scavenge in the ruins of the city. These can be used to upgrade your crafting tables and create new tools to help you survive and thrive in zombie infested New Orleans.

In this way The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners is also a VR Survival Game. You’ll have to worry about more than just fighting the zombies and hostile humans using the game’s superb melee and shooting systems. In this Zombie Virtual Reality game you will also have to scavenge for supplies and decide what to make with them so that you can continue surviving and completing objectives to advance the story.

As mentioned, the combat is also superb. Instead of waving your arms around to attack in melee as a more subpar zombie game would, you need to be very careful to apply your blade or bludgeon of choice to a walker’s head in order to take it down. Sharper weapons slide in more easily, and duller ones that are more plentiful require more strength to use. It’s the best zombie destroying melee system in VR.

Punching a zombie in the face in the sequel The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners Chapter 2 - Retribution

The sequel, Chapter 2: Retribution, gives you more weapons and tools while also giving you greater enemies to fight. Overall The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners is a fantastic combination of melee combat, shooting, and survival in a zombie post apocalypse.

Resident Evil 4 VR

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Resident Evil 4 VR is a fantastic remake of the classic Resident Evil 4, which defined a whole new genre of adventure shooters back in its hey-day. What makes it even better than the original is just how much freedom VR gives you to shoot and fight any way that you want. The Virtual Reality controls give you much more freedom of movement than the old tank controls of the original did.

In this game you are Leon Kennedy, who is sent to a remote village in Spain to rescue the president’s daughter, who has been kidnapped by a cult known as Los Ganados. What you don’t know going in is that the Ganados have a parasite that can take control of a person’s body and will, and the entire area is full of cultists possessed by this parasite.

Fighting off the Los Ganados villagers in Resident Evil 4 VR

While they aren’t exactly zombies, they certainly act like zombies do. The Ganados will come at you in waves, and keeping them from hitting you while also doing your best to take them down is certainly an experience that feels like fighting any other sort of zombie.

Resident Evil 4 VR combines the puzzling, exploration, and shooting of the original game and makes it look and feel fantastic to play in VR. If you’re a fan of the original, or want a fun linear adventure experience with lots of zombie like enemies and creatures to fight then this game is for you.

Arizona Sunshine

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Arizona Sunshine is a short but very fast paced and fun zombie shooting experience on the Oculus Quest 2. If you want a Singleplayer or Multiplayer experience where you mow down hordes of zombies that are all running at you, then this is the game it do that in.

In this game you are a survivor who finds themself in Arizona shortly after zombies take over the world. In search of a safe place to live, you fight your way through hordes of zombies in a number of areas. The game gives you a ton of weapons to have fun with, from the 1911 pistol to MP5 submachine guns, to assault rifles, to sniper rifles, and even a minigun.

There’s not much to Arizona Sunshine other than killing zombies, going to the next area, and killing some more. If you want a zombie shooter experience with a lot of bullets and not a whole lot of frills, then this is your game. It’s straightforward and it’s a blast. It’s also got three person coop multiplayer if you’ve got some friends who want to blast the undead as well.

After The Fall

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Remember Left 4 Dead? Well unless you’re playing the Left 4 Dead VR Mod, which is honestly pretty janky right now, then the closest thing you’ll get to it in VR is After The Fall. This game combines Left 4 Dead’s four player zombie coop multiplayer adventures, complete with all the hordes and special zombie types you could ask for, with VR Controls and a progression system that has you unlocking better guns and equipment as you play more and more.

In After The Fall you are an unnamed survivor of a peculiar apocalypse that has not only turned most of the world’s population into pale walking corpses intent on killing, but also frozen practically everything. Through defeating these zombies (called the “Snowbreed” by the survivors) you not only keep your small underground community running, but collect more of their essence to upgrade your equipment.

If you want the intense 4 player coop zombie fights of Left 4 Dead in VR, then After The Fall is the way to go. The missions are very repeatable and the undead are never ending.

Lies Beneath

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Another Singleplayer VR experience, Lies Beneath is a standout example of a Singleplayer VR game with both great length, story, and great action that not only intrigues but makes you want to keep coming back for more. It’s another linear shooter, and the enemies in it are not exactly zombies. Most are zombie like, and they come at you in big groups like zombies do, but there are also other strange nightmare creatures for you to contend with.

Still, Lies Beneath very much has the zombie vibe to it. You crawl through abandoned forests and villages, trying to shoot and chop your way through the hordes of enemies to reach your next destination. It’s one hell of an experience, and the sort that VR could really use more of.

In this game you play as Mae, a college student coming back home, when a terrible car crash leaves you separated from your father. As you look for him you discover that everywhere you go things are twisted and evil, with aggressive creatures roaming the landscape. Most of which… look human but dead, zombies you might call them.

The shooting is a ton of tense fun in this game, and you really feel like you’re alone up against a huge horde of zombie like creatures. I couldn’t recommend this game enough if you want a Singleplayer VR zombie shooting experience in VR.

There you have it, the 5 best VR Zombie Games on the Oculus Quest 2. While none of these are free, they’re all very much worth your money and a ton of fun.

The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners Multiplayer | What Would It Look Like?

If you came here wondering if The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners or its sequel The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners - Chapter 2: Retribution have multiplayer, then I’m sorry to tell you that neither of them do. Still, it’s fun to imagine just what those games would be like if they had multiplayer. So here we’re looking into how The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners Multiplayer could look, if it existed.

The Trial Mode: Wave Survival With Friends

With a little guessing it would be simple to imagine that Skydance Interactive would have the easiest time implementing Multiplayer for The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners in its “The Trial” mode. In this mode you fight against twenty waves of increasingly larger amounts of walkers. You can buy more weapons, supplies, and ammunition using coins that you get for defeating the walkers. It’s a lot of fun, but can get kind of repetitive on your own.

So what if there was an option to include another player in the fun? This could become like a VR version of Call of Duty’s Zombies mode, or a better version of Contractor’s zombies survival mode, which we’ve been on record here saying isn’t too great.

Blasting waves of zombies with a buddy or two is tried and true fun, and you wouldn’t need to change how The Trial functions much to accommodate more players (outside of the obvious technical difficulties with adding multiplayer to something made for singleplayer.) Each player would probably want their own bank of cash to spend on upgrades and weapons, which also adds a bit of competition over who can kill walkers the best and the fastest for more points.

Also the difficulty would definitely have to go up, even adding some of The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinner’s human enemies might make the game spicy enough to help overcome the new advantage in numbers that the players would have. At the very least there would need to be greater amounts of walkers, which might also create a challenge with how well the Quest 2 could handle that amount of enemies in the game at the same time. Maybe making resources more scarce would balance things out. Regardless of how it would be done, Multiplayer The Trial sounds like fun.

If you’re looking for something like a Multiplayer version of The Trial or a better type of wave based zombie survival than Contractors offers, check out Requisition VR, they’ve got a pretty good wave based zombie defense mode that is also multiplayer. It’s getting better all the time too, and at the time of writing this is planned to come to the Oculus Quest platform soon.

Scavenging New Orleans as a Team

A multiplayer version of The Trial would be great, no doubt about that, but I think what everyone would really want is something that hasn’t been done before, and is a multiplayer version of The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners’ and The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners - Chapter 2: Retribution’s main campaign. Exploring New Orleans with your friends, fighting through Tower strongholds, chopping through walkers, scavenging bits and pieces for your Resting Place. That is the Multiplayer The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners experience that would be like no other.

Before the release of Chapter 2: Retribution I might have said that the game would be too easy with a team of buddies at your side, but with a few tweaks I think the difficulty of the sequel, especially when exploring at night, would be more spot on, and still keep the tension that Saints & Sinners has in spades and uses so well in its gameplay.

Of course it would have to be harder if you have more people playing together. Luckily Chapter 2: Retribution has shown that the Quest 2 can handle a large amount of walkers and enemies. Increasing the amount of enemies you and your friends face would be crucial to maintaining tension, and some enhancements to the human enemy AI would also be welcome, with or without multiplayer.

Even with the existing amount of enemies there are some great new possibilities with multiple people. Maybe a mission where both of you need to go to different spots on the map to complete an objective, and then fight through Tower grunts to find each other again and escape. Having multiple players means that the weapons each player brings could be more specialized, with some focusing on ranged weapons and some on melee.

Of course that would only matter if the carrying capacity of each player was reduced, or everyone would be as versatile as they would be in singleplayer, or maybe not, maybe each player keeping their versatility is more fun. At the very least seeing how everyone plays the game differently would be fantastic.

Still, at the very least health should be reduced with more people. The Tourist is already very hard to kill, having four tourists with the same amount of health means that they probably wouldn’t even need to use guns. Instead you could just bumrush everything with melee weapons. That would be the most important aspect of multiplayer for The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners, balancing the amount of enemies and the strength of the players so that neither side is too powerful.

One player could draw in a horde of walkers, while another waits to shoot a propane tank or throw an explosive to destroy them all. One player could shoot at some Tower soldiers while another sneaks up behind them to chop them to bits with a katana. This makes existing missions in these games more interesting, but would also leave a lot of room for making even more intricate and dangerous missions.

Your friend could die and you could loot their backpack and bring their weapons back to the Resting Place for them. Maybe Player versus Player could be an interesting place to take The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners multiplayer. A raid system like there is in games like Escape From Tarkov or Marauders could be very interesting. Basically you would go out into New Orleans to scavenge and complete objectives as usual, but other players could fight and kill you while you do that.

If each player dropped all of their equipment on death, like the exiles in Chapter 2: Retribution, this would mean that extra players wouldn’t make the game easier, but would actually create a whole new threat and incredible danger. There is yet to be a good extraction shooter in Virtual Reality on PCVR or the Quest 2.

The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners as a multiplayer game could fit this emerging multiplayer shooter market incredibly well. Regardless of whether it would be a Player Versus Player or purely Cooperative game, it would be a blast. Maybe we’ll see The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners Multiplayer one day, for now we can only dream.

5 Helpful Tips and Tricks for The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners - Chapter 2: Retribution

The Walking Dead Saints and Sinners - Chapter 2: Retribution is a fantastic follow-up to one of the greatest Virtual Reality games out there, but if you’re having a tough time maybe you’re not enjoying it as much as you could. Well if you’re struggling or just want to dominate the flooded streets of The Walking Dead’s New Orleans even harder, here are some premium Tips and Tricks for The Walking Dead Saints & Sinners - Chapter 2: Retribution.

A video version of this review can be found here on our Youtube Channel.

For our previous article with tips from the first game (which are still very useful here in Chapter 2) go here.

Some Materials Are Easier to Find at Night

With this new Chapter of The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners comes new crafting materials like Casings and Biomass, along with new crafting tables to use them on, and the ability to explore New Orleans at night. To explore at night you can either sleep through the day by using the flask in the Resting Place, or travel somewhere like you usually would, but go to another location instead of heading back to the Resting Place. That means you can go to two places in one day!

The Tactical Flashlight you got in the Aftershocks DLC for the first game is very useful here. Switching it to UV not only reveals useful graffiti on the walls that will lead you towards the local exile trader (more on that later), but it will also illuminate items to loot that you can only find at night. Items like Bird Skulls, Oyster Mushrooms, and Moss. While you can still find these new materials in other places, to get them in big quantities you’ll want to go out at night and pick up these glowing items. You definitely won’t regret it. The new crafting tables make some great stuff.

Oh, and you’ll find a lot of dead Exiles at night with their discarded backpacks right beside them. You can find a lot of great things in these like boxes of materials, the best healing item in the game, other useful loot, and guns. Going out at night is very profitable.

Stealth is More Useful at Night… But Not Required

The downside of scavenging at night is that it’s dark and hard to see. Oh, and there’s a LOT more walkers than there usually are. Not only will you run across them more frequently, but they come in larger groups than during the day. This makes travelling at night significantly more dangerous than during the day, but the upside is that all that darkness also makes it harder for walkers to see you.

The streets and open areas are lined with trashcan fires, though who keeps those lit is anybody’s guess. Walking or crouch walking and avoiding their light means that walkers will not notice you and try to eat you unless you get very close. This also naturally means that you should keep your flashlight off if you don’t want to be seen, though you’ll still be able to see things that are right in front of you. So you aren’t completely blind, just mostly.

Listening to the soft moaning of nearby walkers helps to avoid stumbling into them in the darkness. Attracting even a single walker can easily create enough noise from their hungry screeching for a large group to take notice and start chasing after you as well. Though if you find an area that is chocked full of walkers you can always use useful items like the Frankenflare or Noisemaker arrows to draw them away so that you can pass through.

Of course you can always just fight all of the walkers instead. If you’re good at combat in The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners - Chapter 2: Retribution and you play it smart you can chop or shoot your way through, though you’ll definitely expend more resources in the process, so bring lots of melee weapons and bullets if you plan to do this.

Always Wear Bolted Up Gloves

Speaking of melee weapons, some of the new weapons added in Chapter 2 of The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners are especially useful. These would be the Sap Gloves and Bolted Up Gloves. These weapons won’t take up a slot on your body or your backpack, because you wear them on your hands, and they make punching walkers a viable tactic in combat.

With some of these on you can punch walkers in the head until they keel over, or grab them and drive a fist straight through their skull. These gloves are lifesavers in situations where you panic and drop your weapons, and serve as a reliable backup if you run out of more traditional melee weapons.

The Bolted Gloves are a better version of the Sap Gloves, and you can get them very early on your first trip to Bourboun Street in the building marked Brown on the map. Check out our article on the locations of new recipes for more specific directions.

Pool Balls are Great Loot - Always Pick Them Up

In terms of new loot, the things you find at night aren’t the only great new opportunities to be had. There are a number of new items that you can find lying around. Loot boxes from the first game are still around, but now they come in varying sizes, with Mediums and Larges containing a lot of great stuff.

An equally good find that you might not suspect is so chocked full of resources are Pool Balls. Somehow this tiny and unassuming item has an absolute ton of resources inside of it, making it far better than most junk that you would find and is certainly worth a spot in your backpack. So don’t assume Pool Balls are junk, they’re actually great. There are some other good items around too, like Guitars and Saxophones, that have a lot of materials inside them for a single inventory slot.

Fulfil Exile Trade Network Orders

You’ll be hearing a lot about the new Exile Trade network through the story missions of The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners - Chapter 2: Retribution, and you should take part in it. There is an exile trader that comes out at night in a specific location on each map. To find where they are use your UV Tactical Flashlight to follow the cats painted on the walls.

At the end of the trail of cats is a trader who has an order for you to fulfil, usually for items that you would normally scrap or replace with something crafted yourself. You can view the orders in the green tab with the box on it in your journal. If you bring the items back to the trader they give you the reward listed in the order. This also means you should be careful when scrapping a haul of loot, you might need some more obscure items later.

It can also be tempting to ignore the trades because the rewards, at first, aren’t very good. Each trader has three different orders, and the first usually gives mediocre rewards at best, but the third trade usually grants you fantastic items, so stick with it and you won’t regret it.

Bonus Tip: Recipes From the First Game Are Still There

For our final tip you should know that the recipes from the first game are still in their original locations. So if you want to go back and get any of the recipes from the first game, go ahead. Some, like Jambalaya or the 4th and Pain, come especially recommended to get your hands on. Note that some recipes for firearms, explosives, and bullets will sometimes drop off of dead Reclaimed and Tower soldiers.

You might have trouble with the recipes in Old Town though.

If you want to find the new recipes that are specific to Chapter 2: Retribution then check out our guide on them here.

Unlock the New Hidden Recipes in The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners - Chapter 2: Retribution

In The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners - Chapter 2: Retribution you unlock most recipes and schematics by upgrading your crafting tables. Except for the green recipes at the bottom of each table. These have to be found out in New Orleans before you can craft them. Wondering where to find them? Well then look no further, because we’ve got them here.

All recipes from Chapter 1 of The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners can be found in the same locations here in the second game. For those recipes check out the article covering all of them. (Human enemies also drop some firearm, explosive, and ammunition recipes occasionally)

This list is only missing a single recipe to avoid spoilers, don’t worry though you will easily get it when doing the main story missions of the game. If you get every recipe on this list (and the main mission recipe just mentioned) and still notice you have some recipe slots unfilled and without hints on the page, that is because those are only available by purchasing the Payback Edition addon to the game.

Table of Contents:

• Heavy Armor Plating

• Bolted Up Gloves

• Hand Grenade

• Undersleeve Plating

• Double Barreled Sawed Off Shotgun (Improved)

• Custom SMG (Improved)

• The Orphan Bow

Heavy Armor Plating

The Heavy Armor Plating recipe is by far the easiest of the new recipes in The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners Chapter 2: Retribution to acquire. It is located in the resting place in the new catacombs area in the room just across the hallway from the bedroom you sleep in. It is sitting on the large wooden table in the center of the room.

Bolted Up Gloves

The Bolted up gloves recipe comes highly recommended to find, and can be acquired during one of the very early missions that you do for the main story. It is located in Bourbon Street in the cocktail lounge on the right end of St. Peter street when looking at your map. It also appears on your map as the brown building with a bottle of bourbon on it.

When entering the house find the stairs that lead to the second floor and go up them. You will come across a room with a shrine or altar of some kind covered in bones and candles. Go through the double doors on the other side of the shrine and find the recipe on the desk in front of you.

Hand Grenade

The Hand Grenade recipe is a pretty straightforward find, and a fun addition to your arsenal. Go to the Hotel E’Claire and enter it from the left side of the building, where there is a fountain and bushes in front of the entrance. On your map this is the entrance on the left side of the building. Once you are inside you’ll notice a coat check on one side of the room, and a set of stairs leading downwards on the other side. These lead down to the wine bar.

Go down the stairs, but once you are at the bottom look underneath the staircase. Hugging the inside of the final flight of stairs is the recipe sitting on the floor.

Undersleeve Plating

The Undersleeve Plating recipe is a little more difficult to find, but you will come across it during the main story missions, either way you can grab it early if you like. Go to Via Corolla and get to Bonaparte street. Once you are on the street walk all the way down it towards the right side of the map. Once you are at the end of the street you will see a crashed police van blocking your way further.

Just to the right of the van is a hole in the fence that borders the street. Duck through the hole and enter the building beyond it. This building is the house marked as green on the map. Take a right as soon as you enter the building. The recipe is on a piece of furniture at about head height.

Double Barrled Sawed Off Shotgun (Improved)

The High End Sawed Off Shotgun recipe can be found by going to The Tower, and is a useful upgrade to the original craftable Sawed Off Shotgun. On the top right most side of your map is a grey, uncolored building that was once a parking garage. Go inside the garage past the collection booth at the front, your goal is to get to the top right section of the garage on your map. Keep to the first floor and don’t go up any ramps.

You should see two semi-trucks at the furthest right corner of the garage, just past a ramp that would lead to the second level. Squeeze between the trucks and find the recipe on the floor in the little nook behind them.

Custom SMG (Improved)

The High End SMG is a direct upgrade to the craftable SMG, and is a must have if you like the weapon. To find it go to The Tower. In front of the Teal Tower building on the map is a small collection of tents, which are past various tower barricades and checkpoints. Fight your way through the Tower soldiers. When you find yourself going down the road that has big concrete walls on either side with traffic cones at their corners, you are going the right way.

Just past those walls is a collection of tents. Head past the military vehicles towards where there is a row of small tents. The first tent you come across, which is closest to the entrance of the left side of the compound will have the recipe sitting on a table.

The Orphan Bow

The Orphan Bow is a must have blueprint for bow lovers in The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners - Chapter 2: Retribution. It’s an even more improved bow than the improved bow from the first game, and even features a laser sight for improved accuracy. To get the recipe go back through the catacombs in the Resting Place to the Churchyard where The Reserve is. Instead of walking through the front door of the church, take the small open gate to the left of it where there will be a ladder leading up a bus.

Walk past the junk scattered around and the picnic table, to where you climb up the pipe to get inside the church at the end of the first game. To the left in the corner is a large green tent. Inside of that tent on the right is a cot that has the Orphan Bow recipe sitting on top of it. Note that this recipe might be bugged and not be visible on top of the cot. If that’s the case just hover your hand over it and wait for the grab marker to appear inside the cot and press the grab button to make it zoom into your hand.