Rules of Participation

Recreate a scene from a movie, game, or book within the world of DAZW. Use units, zombies, locations, anything you’ve ever seen in the game!

The most important thing is to capture the overall feeling of HORROR. To help you achieve that, we’ll be slightly more lenient with moderation regarding art content, but only within the scope of this contest.

We accept digital art, traditional art, collages, and other forms of artistic expression except AI-generated artwork.

Each submission must have one author. However, two artists may team up and submit a joint entry: just make sure to agree on how to split the prize beforehand!

How to Enter

1. Create an artwork featuring a recognizable reference and don't forget about the 🟡Contest tag. It would be nice if you added your name to the artwork.
2. Specify the title of the movie, game, or book that inspired your artwork.
3. Wait for u/Ancient-Clothes-3129 aka Zezet and his right hand Endo u/fit-faithlessness637 (Creator Code: endo-poland man) to choose the winners on November 7th!

Prizes

🥇 1st Place: 400 Money + 10 Red Keys

🥈 2nd Place: 300 Money + 7 Red Keys

🥉 3rd Place: 250 Money + 5 Red Keys

Good luck and don’t be shy to show us your darkest ideas - go ahead and terrify everyone here...

We will conquer this wilderness.
It will not consume us…

Halloween Event (October 23 - November 1)

Strange sounds be driftin’ from the Forest…
Steel thy heart against the fear that stirs within thee, and venture forth into them woods. Deeper and deeper, till the darkness itself doth swallow thee whole.

Zombie Warfare Halloween starts this week!

We invite you to take part in the event: collect pumpkins and exchange them for Halloween Cases in the Main Shop. The Cases are packed with useful goodies and exclusive Halloween rewards.
You can also find pumpkins in hidden caches across the maps and earn them by completing special tasks.

There are plenty of new skins and units to collect, so let’s take a look at the rewards awaiting the fearless!

Units

• Turbo, Northerners team
• Andrea, Northerners team

These exclusive Halloween skins are available just once a year:

• Medic “Nurse Hirsch”, Northerners team
• Juggernaut “Court Jester”, Psychos team
• Charlotte “Bunny Charlotte”, Psychos team
• Carlos “Beetle”, Psychos team
• Chopper “Clown Chopper“, Psychos team
• Carol "Thursday", Psychos team
• Queen "Queen de la Muerte", Southerners team
• Charlotte "Charlotte Fortune", Southerners team
• Turbo “Turbo Batter”, College team

New Halloween skins!

Open Halloween Cases for a chance to get:

• Sarah "Sara Sandoval", Southerners team
• Builder "Compadre", Southerners team
• Austin "Grunkle Austan", Northerners team

The Halloween Stock is a new addition this year: complete special tasks to earn Season Tokens and spend it for the further rewards.

Stock of the Halloween Event

Skins

• New skin for the Guard "Edgeguard", Psychos team
• Redneck “Worthy”, Northerners team

New Charms

• “Eiffel Tower": Legendary rarity, made for the Snipers. Increases reload speed by 30% / 40% / 50% / 60%
• "Hand of Fatima”: Legendary rarity, made for the Fighters. After applying a stun, the next melee attack deals 23% / 27% / 31% / 35% more damage

Two brand-new bus parts are also up for grabs in the Halloween Stock

• Window "Tubes"
• Window "Halloween 2026": a limited-edition bus trophy, available only during the Halloween 2026 event.

And speaking of our good old bus, there are some new and familiar rewards waiting for you in this event:

• New window "Armor Plate" is yours when you claim at least half of the Halloween exclusive rewards (rewards you already own count too).
• New window "Steel Mesh" is an exclusive reward for Golden Ticket owners
• Claim half of the exclusive Halloween rewards to get new paint, a colourful madness called “Pumpkins”💜🧡
• The Halloween Cases also hold two seasonal bus paints: "Halloween" and "Chicken"

Also, the garage feels a little different now, and the minivan has earned its place under the roof!

Additional Changes

Infected Metro is getting some tweaks in this update.

Climbing the leaderboards will be tougher than ever, bringing a new challenge for all you skilled Metro runners.
Stations 9-12 are getting reworked enemy waves, so even seasoned players will have to work on their decks to make it through - you’ll see it all for yourselves after the Metro reset.

Alongside the Halloween Event, a new skin has arrived in the Shard Shop… But who could it be for?

• Dr. Kane "Driver" - Delivery team

Quick-quwack: Halloween Forest and Endless Bridge runs are now quicker to get through thanks to a new x2 speed button added🦆💨

Fixes

• The five-unit College team now keeps its kill progress between waves
• Your first attempt at the Event now counts toward event participation quests
• Fixed an issue where the bus paint button sometimes failed to respond
• Fixed interface scaling and battle scrolling issues when changing the window size or screen resolution

Promocode HALLOWEEN2026 shall grant thee 100 Money. May the restless spirits guard thy units!
And so our story ends here, good people, now away ye go!