Infinity Mode is Dead Rising's endless mode. The focus is on surviving for as long as possible in the Willamette mall, and your health is constantly draining... If that wasn't difficult-sounding enough, everyone is your enemy, survivor or not.

Food will also never respawn (same with Seon's Food And Stuff, it's locked), so if you pick them up and then leave the area, you're not getting them back. The same will go for psychopaths and survivors who drop food.

Cardboard boxes that are found on the ground do not drop foods, just like in the original game. Killing large amounts of zombies/cultists/special forces have the chance to drop free food.

Frank also has his watch now, so you don't need to wait for thirty minutes in places with clocks on the walls to check the time anymore! You can also fast-forward time and make a suspend point if you need it.

Psychopaths have the chance to spawn in certain locations, like Jo on the rooftop, and to make things worse, the Cult and Special Forces come in on day three!


It's simpler than you think. This guide'll cover what you need to get, what to do, and how to not die!*



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Also, make frequent saves and back up your saves from this location:


This is because Infinity Mode tends to crash... a lot. Like, a lot. Just to be safe, make a save for every day! That way when a crash happens you won't have to start over from Day 1.

Days are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ jank.

By the time you survive six days, the game takes into account that you have survived approximately five. This means that the clock between loading screens gives you one more day than is actually there. To determine how long you survive between the challenge pop-ups, just know:


Every day lasts a while. You'll be fast forwarding through them most of the time, though. Your health takes a while to drain, and every time you fast forward, you'll be going through the day in about twenty to thirty minute chunks.

Since time is so long, make sure to fast-forward to when you have one health block left, but ALWAYS BE CAUTIOUS. Make sure every Special Forces officer is dead before you fast-forward time, so that way none of them decide to come in when you're manipulating time and the fabric of reality as we know it.

Fast-forward with caution as well! Make sure to not let your health drain to zero. As it turns out, starving with three well-done steaks in your pockets is bad for your health and causes a case of death!

There are a few challenge/achievement items that you can get that'll make your time doing 7 Day Survivor (or even just Infinity Mode in general) much easier.



This weapon is very powerful and can kill most zombie densities, psychos and survivors. Charging it makes its power completely unmatched, being a blast of powerful energy after charging for just a few seconds!
You can even charge it up for just a second or two to get a smaller version of the blast, albeit with less effect.



Obvious choice. Completing Saint with either possible ending (S, B) unlocks this little goodie! Though you won't be using melee weapons very often (if at all,) the utility of an unlimited Mega Buster or Heavy Machine Gun is completely unmatched. This magazine gives infinite ammo to ranged weapons and infinite durability to melee weapons, therefore saving you lots of space and allowing you to store more food. This also negates the need for the Gunslinger magazine.

The blender magazine isn't included, because blenders don't exist in Infinity Mode.

There's a bunch of important items for Infinity mode that aren't in random locations, or only able to be found through survivor/psycho drops. This section splits the randomized and un-randomized items.





Food 1: Entrance Plaza, Everyone Luvs Books
Recommended route to get this is at the beginning. From the Security Room, head over to the Entrance Plaza and get this from Everyone Luvs Books. You can see it on a shelf beside the cash register.

Food 2: Wonderland Plaza, Sir Book-A-Lot
Take the shortcut and make your way up the stairs. When you walk in, this is the first book you'll see.

Food 3: Unfinished Store, Beside Crislip's Home Saloon
The unfinished store is already unlocked, this is where you initially saved Clint's prisoners. Pick it up in the center of the room.

These magazines increase the healing output of all foods by 200% when combined with each other, adding tons to your healing output (the weakest foods will increase health by three blocks, for example). Grab all of these as soon as possible.

Get these from Paradise Plaza's sports shop.

You're most likely going to be using the Infinite Durability magazine, so these are free mobility - they give you about as much mobility as a Quickstep, allowing you to get across the mall WAY faster, and race against your draining health at a much better speed.


Drops randomly from Zombies, Cultists and Special Forces. Guaranteed from Convict's Jeep.

REALLY, REALLY good for crowd control. Biggest disadvantage with it is that it's a heavy weapon, so every time you pick up an item or get hit, you drop it. You'll probably be getting this a lot, use it to get rid of packed zombie or cultist densities and make traversing across the mall easier! It can also be used against the Special Forces just fine.

Drops randomly from Zombies and Cultists. Guaranteed from Special Forces.

Also really good for crowd control, and lighter than the Heavy Machine Gun, so you won't drop it when you get hit by anything. If there's one thing the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ from the Special Forces are good at giving you, you'll be getting boatloads of these. They have tons of ammo (150 each), and with there always being at least two of the Special Forces later on, you'd be getting 300+ per duo.

I'll be splitting up these foods into their own sections. Here's a map![gamefaqs.gamespot.com]


Ignore the books, the only ones you'll ever need were covered earlier and melee weapons aren't used as often as the Mega Buster or Heavy Machine Gun. This guide is for the original game, but it still applies here. Everything is basically the same.


Don't eat these items, they'll make Frank sick and aren't really that worth it.

- Rotten Meat
- Rotten Pizza

Weak foods are food items that will heal three blocks of health with all three Food books. Use these first, and keep some for emergency healing if you need to chow down. These food items, just like the strong ones, can be found around the mall depending on where you go. They can drop from the Zombie item pool. Survivors and Psychos can drop these.

These foods are, but are not limited to:

- Melted Ice Pops
- Thawed Vegetables
- Cabbage
- Lettuce
- Squash
- Baguette
- Pie
- Zucchini
- Corn
- Japanese Radish
- Cookies
- Snack

Alright Foods are foods that will restore six blocks of health with all three Food books. These can serve either purpose (emergencies or waiting), but are generally useful in both utility and survival. Survivors and Psychos can drop these.

The foods that fit this category are:

- Apple
- Cheese
- Grapefruit
- Melon
- Orange
- Uncooked Pizza
- Frozen Vegetables
- Ice Pops
- Yogurt
- Raw Meat


The holy grails of survival in Infinity Mode! The Strong Foods recover all blocks of health with all three food books, and are best used for waiting on the health loss at the last block, to recover all of it and start the process over again. A.K.A, the Waiting Game.
If you get these, don't squander them - there's only a few specific locations around the mall where you can find them. You can find these often from survivors, psychos and sometimes from Special Forces (and Cultists).

- Orange Juice
- Milk
- Coffee Creamer
- Wine
- Well-Done Steak
- Golden Brown Pizza

Well-Done Steaks and Wine restore the highest amount of HP, bar none - but it's not like that matters much, since all blocks will be restored with all three food books.

Survivors and Psychopaths are completely random. You have no idea where they'll spawn and who they are, but you're given a handy little icon on the map to show the area of the mall they're in...


...but not specifically.

While this is a problem, you'll eventually get used to how they spawn. Their loot is also randomized (what they drop when they die). Survivors and Psychopaths can drop great food, and that's about it.
You're not going to be using their weapons, since most Survivor weapons are useless and Psycho weapons have been made obsolete by the Real Mega Buster and Heavy Machine Gun... et cetera.

In short, you'll be wanting to kill Survivors and Psychopaths for food! Here's some tips:

Surviving for five to seven days in the remaster is now a faster process (14 hrs -> ~2 hrs). It is a bit more difficult, though, so here's the best tips I can give you.

Sounds hard, right? Wrong. Well, kinda. Not until Day 3, when the Cultists and Special Forces start showing up, but otherwise it's a piece of cake if you know how to dodge zombie bites and swipes.

You'll start off in the Security Room. You're going to be rotating usually around bathrooms or any areas where you can fast-forward time. Anywhere you'd normally save is now turned into a time machine.

You will always be fast-forwarding time. The main loop of Infinity Mode is this:


That's it. That's your main gameplay loop.

Another big thing:


If you don't, you will be killed out of nowhere because of a random Special Forces member walking into the bathroom mid-wait and killing you, ruining your run.

Also, back up your saves once per in-game day. It's worth it and saves you from crashes way more often than you'd expect.

And the grand prize for surviving 7 days is...

There was a few other guides that I got my information from. I'd like to show them here!


frank west on fentanyl's Guide on Survivor Locations: https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3334600292

This is a pretty good guide detailing survivor locations more.

Seven Day Survivor Guide (not on remaster, but still applies for some survivor/psycho locations): https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1246983258

This guide helped out a lot with information about the original's Infinity Mode. It's also pretty fun to read!

Big thanks to these peeps. These guides helped out a lot!