100 Waves Later

100 Waves Later is a roguelike wave survival game on Roblox by banjo boiler room where players combine randomly rolled weapons and skills to fend off escalating zombie hordes. Launched in November 2025, it grew to over 50 million visits and 212 thousand favorites within months of release, earning a 98.2% approval rating - one of the highest on the Roblox platform. The game has a Fandom wiki at zombierngarena.fandom.com and a separate endgame Raid place for players who push past the main wave arc.

Each run starts with a Class selection that determines your passive ability tree for the session. Once in the arena, zombie waves spawn in sequence - every cleared wave offers new weapon rolls and skill rolls, the random draws that define your build. No two runs are identical, and discovering powerful synergies between a weapon and a matching class ability is the core hook that drives replayability. A fire-damage weapon combined with a class ability that amplifies burn effects, for example, produces far greater output than either element alone. The full progression system spans:

• ⚔️ Weapon rolls - random weapon draws offered between waves, each with different damage profiles, ranges, and synergy potential with class abilities
• 💎 Classes - distinct archetypes including tank, ranged, and support variants, each with unique passive trees that shape how each run plays out
• 🗺️ Skill rolls - additional ability draws between waves that modify and amplify your weapon's effectiveness in combination with class passives
• 🏆 Boss waves - elite zombie encounters at regular intervals requiring more coordinated team effort from the up-to-25 co-op players in the server
• ⏳ Seasonal events - holiday content cycles confirmed since launch, including a Christmas event with dedicated codes for bonus Scraps
• 💰 Scraps - the primary currency earned by surviving waves, spent in the lobby to unlock new classes and purchase permanent upgrades that carry across all future runs

Scraps are the meta-progression currency. Longer runs yield more Scraps per session, so pushing further matters both for your immediate power level and for unlocking the full class roster. The separate Raid place offers cooperative endgame content beyond the main wave arena. Wave milestone badges track progress at Wave 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 - with the game's title implying 100 waves as the mastery goal. Desktop and mobile are both supported.

100 Waves Later stands among the best-reviewed zombie and roguelike games on Roblox. Its RNG-driven build system places it alongside games like Dead Rails in the survival genre, distinguished by its co-op class synergy layer and 98.2% approval rating.