Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville

Good game, but like others have noted, it's missing the Deluxe content. That could be overlooked, but I personally couldn't overlook the lack of cloud saves, especially when the Steam version includes this. However, if you don't care about such things, it's a worthy purchase.

A really cool take on the zombie apocalypse through the lense of a turn-based strategy/city builder game! A way too rare combination. I also enjoyed the humour and the writing was nice

Rebuild 3 is the continuation of the flash game series of the same name that manages to deliver a unique and satisfying strategy game experience. Despite its simple origins at its heart Rebuild 3 is a 4X title and a deceptively enjoyable one. Even when layering in the most complex elements of the game it is still more simple than the vast majority of 4X titles out there. For a lot of players that might be a bad thing but Rebuild 3 has a satisfying gameplay loop with an enjoyable enough campaign and surprisingly well-tuned difficulty settings that, like with any 4X or grand strategy game you can choose how casual or difficult you want your campaign to be and in doing so the game's simplicity becomes a significant strength. While the title was clearly made with mobile devices in mind its relatively simple gameplay and low hardware demands makes it very easy to just jump headfirst into and to enjoy playing while listening to a podcast or watching a television program or chatting on a vent or what have you. It has everything you want in your core 4X experience while trimming a lot of the fat and still maintaining more personality than other games in its genre including the simultaneously delightful and dreadful "just one more turn" factor. As somebody who returns to a lot of older strategy titles like Homeworld and Masters of Orion 2 and plays a lot of popular titles like Crusader Kings 2, Civilization, Stellaris, Endless Legend, and Rimworld I still find myself coming back to Rebuild 3 even after having dumped hundreds of hours into it. Beyond that I doubly recommend Rebuild 3 if you're trying to introduce somebody into the 4X genre or strategy games in general. It might not be flashy but it has all anybody needs to get their feet wet into the genre and find out whether they enjoy what the genre has to offer or not.

Basically it's a mouse driven strategy game, going from map to map. Your goal in this game is to get your base into a state where it can be declared a government with it's own constitution. And how you do this is explore (scout locations for goodies or important area's), expand (clear out area's of zombies, then use materials to wall that area to your fort, unto which these area's may be counted unto what your fort needs, like food from farms), exploit (scavenge area's full of food and goodies, or use certain plot of the fort you grabbed and gain resources from them) and exterminate (meet other factions in the area, form aliences or declair war). The factions are all very interesting, they all have their own uniqueness about them. Some are almost like a poision to your people, others will change your group forever. The zombies are an obstacle mostly, a constant strain and the main problem in the game, there will be a few events with them but not much else. And surprisingly, there is a story here, you'll have to work with the factions of each map to find out what it is if that's what you want, otherwise you may skip it by just getting to the constitution as quick as you can. I very much enjoy this game.

An old-style sim game with no moving animations but a lot of humour and playability