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About Earn to Die

Earn to Die is the upgrade game everyone remembers: you start with a battered hatchback, a strip of desert and a horde of zombies between you and the evacuation helicopter. You drive until you run out of fuel — usually in a few hundred metres — then spend what you earned running zombies over on a better engine, tougher wheels, more fuel and eventually a gun bolted to the roof.

The genius is the pacing. Every run gets a bit further, every upgrade visibly changes the car, and the moment the vehicle finally has enough of everything to smash through to the end is properly satisfying. Not Doppler published it and it defined the genre for a decade.

How to play Earn to Die

Accelerate

→ or D

Brake / reverse

← or A

Tilt in the air

← → to rotate

Boost

Space or ↑ once fitted

1. Drive right; fuel drains as you go and running out ends the run.
2. Hitting zombies earns cash, so ploughing through the horde is the point rather than a hazard.
3. Between runs, spend the money on engine, wheels, fuel tank, armour, boost and weapons.
4. Each stage ends when you reach the far side; there are several stages before the helicopter.

Earn to Die tips

• Buy fuel capacity early. Everything else is useless if you stop after 200 metres.
• Keep the nose slightly up over ramps; landing on your roof costs both speed and fuel.
• The gun pays for itself: zombies you shoot are cash you didn't have to slow down for.
• Don't brake. Ever. Momentum is money in this game.

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