Now, I've been playing this game for a long long time, but I just revisited it after a.... not that long hiatus, really, I tend to revisit this very often.
Basically, it's an utterly reduxed XCOM, if you like. To coffee break extremes. There's a zombie apocalypse, your goal is to rescue as many people as possible from the zombies. To help you with this you have a number of mercenary teams, which you have to use as well as you can.
Part of the challenge is that you don't actually choose (in the default gameplay that is) WHICH mercenaries you have on any given mission, as every turn you get a shuffle of which teams you can actually use and which teams are "away". So in a way it's also an excercise on how to deal with suboptimal situations: you won't always get the mercenary "dream team" you'd like. Sometimes you have to make do with the dregs, and simply survive to fight another day.
All in all I think you can sum the game, as I said before, as an extremely streamlined xcom, which DOES make it very suited for casual gaming during breaks, but it doesn't do the thing justice. Really, this game is brilliant. Maybe a better analogy would be to say it's the TETRIS of XCOM-likes. Sure, there are more complex games, and more flashy games, but there's a beauty to it's simplicity that makes it extremely addictive at the same time.
It has been around 9 years since Blendogames released this game, and 8 and a half since I got it from Humble. I don't think I ever stopped playing it. Really, this is worth your time. Give it a whirl. If these guys made a sequel to Atom Zombie Smasher I'd get it, or kickstart it, without hesitation.
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