Posted on: January 7, 2020

arazu

Games: 20 Reviews: 1

Enjoying 800% Campaign

While half of the challenge is to find out what to research and what mission to run next, i pretty much like the game itself. Devs happened to make pretty nice balance between free space and resources available, noise that attracts too much unwanted attention early in the game, available firepower and need to have all research points to be put into "lategame" devices capable of defeat uncountable zombies comming with the next wave. Every time it feels so good to shred to pieces incoming herd, after slow and accurate beginning of the mission

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Posted on: September 5, 2024

SEPECAT3058

Games: 11 Reviews: 1

It's Worth It

Every review you've read about this game is right. The campaign sucks and can soft-lock you with impossible difficulty based on what technologies you've chosen to unlock. The hero-missions are 90-minute chores of kiting enemies and doubling back. The lack of normal save/load means that if things get hairy, you have to salvage the last couple minutes by closing the program via Task Manager. BUT... I have sunk hundreds of hours into Survival Mode (its regular random-map mode) and still find it endearing. The art style is perfect. Gameplay is fun and tense. It really makes you think to plan your optimal base defenses and economy layout. The bad voice acting and bizarre unit dialogue are a plus. I do recommend this game, acknowledging all its glaring flaws. I know it's not encouraging to read "this game is great once you acclimate to its faults," but what it does right it does so well that it's worth trying. I keep coming back to it and enjoy exhilarating games every time I play.

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Posted on: May 12, 2023

FeliGabiLecchini

Verified owner

Games: 30 Reviews: 10

Great game with some flaws...

Nice rogue/rts game. But here its problems: 1) No manual save. The game actually expects you to play every level PERFECTLY from beginning to end. 2) If you spend your science points incorrectly (and you will !) in the tech tree you're pretty much SCREWED ! All future levels can't be completed and you will have to reset your ENTIRE CAMPAIGN !!! 3) The "Soldier" is the only military unit that is worth something in battle but it takes too long in the research tree to unlock it. You will have to do your way through the beginning of a level with those lousy rangers (a weak archer-girl with little hit points). 4) In the end-game you will probably have your base fortified with walls, towers full of snipers and automated defence systems, at that point you will probably want to dismiss that squad of 50 soldiers BUT, you will have to do it ONE BY ONE !!!, so tedious, such boring, much dull ! 5) Mutants and Titans (the coolest military units you can command) are WAY TO FAR both in the tech tree and the research tree. So, you will only be able to use them on the last levels of the campaign and you will only want to train them if you research them before walling and towering your base (bad game-timing design). 6) If one of your tents gets infected by a zombie attack it's pretty much game over ! Infection spreads WAY TOO FAST in this game. Your entire base is to vulnerable. 7) THOSE THEM HARPIES!!!!!. Harpies are zombie-girl monsters that are lightning fast with long and sharp finger nails that not only will slice your soldiers in half in a second but also climb your walls, ignore your defence turrets and infect your houses like the plague. A COMPLETELY UNBALANCE enemy if you ask me. 8) Building placement is awkward and non-intuitive. The game automatically places "invisible paths" between buildings that don't let you build your base at your leisure. You can't also place several production/extraction buildings in the same patch of resources tightly. ...etc, etc...

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Posted on: May 29, 2023

HaploXar

Verified owner

Games: 172 Reviews: 11

A challanging survival base building game

You will lose the first few times, I know I did. I played this at a friends house and while attempting to add it to my wishlist accidentally purchased it. I will ask for a refund and wait for a sale but imo the game could be worth the full price I'm just not very wealthy :) A few things, a lot of people complain about the campaign but survival mode is the heart and soul of the game, play that first and get the basics down before you try the campaign. I think the map is generated each time and sometimes you will make bad choices thinking that they are good choices. I spent a lot of resources and time setting up a defense wall with towers and then after scouting farther into the fog of war I found out..... It was a dead end! No zombies could come that way. But I left those walls and stuff up because I had learned from my previous defeat how fast infection spreads and its good to have breaks like a submarine or when a building tries to stop a fire. BIG TIP -The only building you 100% have to protect is your main base of operations. Make sure you have a reserve squad or some towers in case SHTF as long as main base lives you can always come back and repair the rest. Have fun, good luck and sorry if you die! (I will.... again and again and again)

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Posted on: September 5, 2019

scott.sharun

Verified owner

Games: 8 Reviews: 1

Not worth it yet.

Boring campaign. Glitchy AI. Lots of random crashes which isn't the best when your game doesn't have manual save. Say good bye to the last hour of progress if it crashes before it auto saves randomly. Oh and all my saves after 16 hrs of playing it just randomly deleted. Stay clear

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