By evoking one of StarCraft’s most memorable Terran-vs-Zerg missions, the Early Access version of They Are Billions has caught onto a great idea: it’s a simple but high-stakes real-time strategy game of survival against an overwhelming, intensifying horde. With a randomized map throwing your plans into uncertainty and no ability to save and reload when things go wrong, every game is a tense turtling battle.
Survival is the only way to play right now, though having played it extensively I’d be surprised if the eventual campaign on developer Numantian Games’ roadmap ends up being anything more than a tutorial for this centerpiece mode. It starts you in a dire situation: your mission-critical town center and a handful of units are completely surrounded by a horrifying number of shambling zombies. The early stages are a desperate race to build up your fledgling colony’s population while scouting the immediate surroundings, then clear and wall in as much territory as you can.
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