9 beginner’s tips to know before starting Zenless Zone Zero

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Zenless Zone Zero is Hoyoverse’s latest installment in their line of mobile RPGs, and while the aesthetic diverges notably from its other games, the systems and mechanics will be pretty familiar. Whether you’re an expert coming over from Honkai Impact 3rd , Genshin Impact , and Honkai: Star Rail , or a newbie who wants to try out their first gacha mobile game, we’ve listed some things to know before diving into ZZZ . If you were wondering if Zenless Zone Zero was just a really stylish mobile RPG or if it has the notorious gambling element to it — yes, it has gacha.

That means, when it comes to unlocking new powerful characters and weapons, you’ll need spend hard-earned or bought premium currency for a chance to get your desired character. ZZZ is the same as the other Hoyoverse games — the free, lower-rarity characters are good enough to clear the story with, and you’ll amass an army of higher-rarity characters as you play the game. Just don’t expect to get every character.



The story, combat, and puzzles in Zenless Zone Zero are different from the other games, but the gameplay loop that you’ll follow every day as you do dailies is the same as your average mobile character building RPG. You collect characters (agents) and weapons (W-engines) via the gacha system. You’ll need to use stamina (battery charge) to farm materials to power up these characters.

You will eventually hit a point where you collect sub-equips for each character (drive discs), which have .