Weapons arsenal
Purchasing every melee weapon and filling out the arsenal unlocks Locked And Loaded — held by only 20.6% of players. It is not a difficulty problem. It is a budgeting problem.
Last verified 28 July 2026 · game version: launch build (22 July 2026)
Why only one in five players has it
Money in this game has an immediate use and a deferred one. Restocking keeps your quota healthy tonight. Weapons pay off on a night that may not come. Under pressure, players spend on the immediate thing every time — and the arsenal never gets finished.
The fix is to decide early that some fraction of every shift's earnings is untouchable and goes to the arsenal. Deciding to chase this at hour twenty means grinding shifts purely for money, which is much less fun than banking a little as you go.
Have it equipped before the hunt
The habit that separates comfortable players from scrambling ones: buy and equip before a hunt starts. Relentless — finish a hunt within 30 seconds, 40.1% — is close to impossible if the first ten seconds are spent shopping.
A Shrieking Doll. It comes to you rather than hiding, so the clock is not spent searching. Do not attempt it on a Marionette night, and never on a Dentist night — that one cannot be killed at all.
What weapons do not solve
- The Dentist. No weapon works. Running is the entire answer.
- Doppelgangers. The problem is identification, not damage. A weapon applied to the wrong customer is the 96.6% achievement.
- The Marionette. Decided by the music box before the fight. Arriving armed but unprepared does not help.
What we have not confirmed
We are not publishing a weapon tier list, damage values or per-monster recommendations, because we cannot verify them yet. Confident-sounding numbers for this game are circulating without sourcing. When we have data we can stand behind, it goes here with the date.