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[Ghazkull]

Found this glorious thing randomly on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX1rPWPN4DI

So finally an RTS not about simply building bases dumbed down to tower defense but about actually building civilization after or during Zombie Apocalypse..

[dennislp3]

Probably should add a bit more info...like links to their website....I got you covered:

Description:
They Are Billions is a strategy game in a distant future about building and managing human colonies after a zombie apocalypse destroyed almost all of human kind. Now there are only a few thousand humans left alive that must struggle to survive under the threat of the infection. Billions of infected roam around the world in massive swarms seeking the last living human colonies.

http://www.numantiangames.com/theyarebillions/

http://store.steampowered.com/app/644930/They_Are_Billions/

Features:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Game Modes
Campaign
In the campaign mode, you have to help the surviving humans to reconquer their country. There are dozens of missions with different goals: building colonies, tactical missions, rescue missions... You can decide the path of progress and mission - research new technologies, advances and upgrades to improve your colonies and army.

Survival Mode
In this mode, a random world is generated with its own events, weather, geography, and infected population. You must build a successful colony that must survive for 100 days against the swarms of infected. It is a fast and ultra addictive game mode. We plan to release a challenge of the week where all players must play the same random map. The best scores will be published in a leaderboard.

Real Time with Pause

This is a real-time strategy game, but don’t get too nervous. You can pause the action to take the best strategic and tactical decisions.
In Pause Mode, you can place structures to build, give orders to your army, or consult all of the game’s information.
This game is all about strategy, not player performance or the player’s skill to memorize and quickly execute dozens of key commands. Pause the game and take all the time you need!

Build your Colony

Build dwellings and acquire food for the colonists. They will come to live and work for the colony.
Collect resources from the environment using various building structures. Upgrade buildings to make them more efficient.
Expand the energy distribution of the colony by placing Tesla Towers and build mills and power plants to feed the energy to your buildings.
Build walls, gates, towers, and structures to watch the surroundings. Don’t let the infected take over the colony!

Build an Army

What kind of people would want to combat the infected?
Only the maddest ones. Train and contract mercenaries to protect the colony. They demand their money and food, and you will have to listen to their awful comments, but these tormented heroes will be your best weapon to destroy the infected.
Every unit is unique and has their own skills and personality – discover them!

Thousands of Units on Screen

Yes! They are billions! The world is full of infected creatures… they roam, smell, and listen. Every one of them has their own AI. Make noise and they will come – kill some of them to access an oil deposit and hundred of them will come to investigate.
We have created our custom engine to handle hordes of thousands of the infected, up to 20,000 units in real time.
Do you think your colony is safe? Wait for the swarms of thousands of infected that are roaming the world. Sometimes your colony is in their path!

Prevent the Infection

If just one of the infected breaks into a building, all the colonies and workers inside will become infected. The infected workers will then run rabid to infect more buildings. Infections must be eradicated from the beginning, otherwise, it will grow exponentially becoming impossible to contain.
Beautiful 4K Graphics!

[nenjin]

The scope is pretty amazing, assuming it doesn't run like shit. Not wild about the cell shaded look but I guess if that's what makes the actor count work....

[Aklyon]

Yeah, performace would be key here.

[Paxiecrunchle]

Sounds interesting,  The most viable strategy might be to take over someplace like Iceland though, clear a relatively small islands of zombies, and then set up your base of production there assuming that these aren't like Plague Inc. zombies that can float across the ocean.

[Sirus]

Posting to come back later.

[TheDarkStar]

IDK, it seems more like tower defense rather than less. Unlike other games advertised as RTS (eg Starcraft, all the TA-derived games, etc) it's heavily based on defensive stuff. Not that that's necessarily bad, but I'm just confused about why it's compared to traditional RTS games rather than games like Dwarf Fortress (which this appears to share some characteristics with).

[Blood_Librarian]

Perhaps they might not know of Dwarf Fortress as much.

[nenjin]

Perhaps they might not know of Dwarf Fortress as much.

Or they realize it would be a loaded comparison.

[Shooer]

Or RTS is a generic term used to define gameplay controls more than mechanics.

[marples]

I can only think of this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Horde_(video_game)

[Astral]

I can only think of this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Horde_(video_game)

I used to have that game for Sega Saturn. Freaking loved it. It had corny cinematics on par with Command and Conquer in terms of ham quality.