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They Are Billions Free Download GAMESPACK.NET Part tower defense, part city builder, They Are Billions is a real-time strategy game whose flow swings between cautious turtling as you hunker down to fend off the zombie hordes and well-considered dashes to expand your territory and exploit vital new resources. Introduced into Steam Early Access last year with a survival mode that challenged you to endure a certain number of days on a randomly-generated map, the game now features a hand-crafted campaign mode as part of its Version 1.0 release. The result is a hybrid RTS that shines when it plays to its strengths even if several of its new additions feel like unnecessary distractions. When you first start a new map and see your isolated base surrounded by zombies, the game’s title will feel accurate, if an understandable exaggeration. Stray zombies take refuge in the fog of war, milling around in small groups until you alert them and occasionally shambling towards your settlement. There aren’t really billions, but it looks like there could be. Fifteen days later, the klaxon blares to signal the arrival of the horde and soon, as a seemingly relentless river of undead lay siege to your defenses, you start to suspect billions may well be an understatement. TOP/BEST ADULT VIDEO GAMES IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA)

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The survival mode and the majority of maps in the campaign offer a similar experience. First, you establish a perimeter with patrol routes to pick off encroaching zombies, scout the immediate area to identify chokepoints and nearby resource deposits, build structures around your base to grow the economy, and secure it all with enough troops and fortifications to fend off the first wave of attack. Survive that, and the second step is an expeditious land-grab to claim whole swathes of fertile new ground, clearing away the errant undead and managing your production to generate all the resources required to populate and work your expanded colony. The ebb and flow at play here is lovely. The arrival of each new wave of zombies is clearly signposted, so you always know precisely how many days you have to prepare for the attack. How you use that time is where the interesting strategic choices arise. Weighing up whether it’s wise to expand northward towards the iron that will let you build soldiers or eastward, where there’s a large forest that provides natural cover and wood required to repair fencing and guard towers; such choices arrive with every wave and your prospects for surviving the next one hinge on the decisions you make. It’s incredibly tense, too. Outside of the horde attacks, a single zombie that manages to elude your patrols and wander into your settlement can mean game over. If just one manages to attack a dwelling.

48 missions with more than 60 hours of gameplay.

Everyone inside will become infected and proceed to join the assault, multiplying the danger to unmanageable levels in an instant. Death is swift. I lost entire colonies thanks to my failure to spot a gap in my defensive setup. Next thing I know, death is spreading across the camp and weeks of desperate survival count for nothing. Survival mode is based around permadeath, as you’d expect. But the campaign, too, incorporates various degrees of permadeath and iron-man elements in an effort to force you to accept the consequences of your choices. If you get overrun and fail a campaign mission, for example, you have to restart that mission from the beginning rather than reload a save from mid-mission before it all started to go wrong. There’s even a penalty applied to the mission reward for each time you fail. Somewhat ironically, an option to back up your campaign save has been added since its 1.0 launch, and the developer has indicated it may continue to adjust its approach in this area in future updates, which makes these decisions feel unconfident. The campaign falters with the inclusion of survival elements, which don’t mesh well with the flow of exploration. The campaign maps are hand-crafted–they’re the same every time you play them. They are, essentially, puzzles in which the solution is discovered through increasingly efficient resource management.Trine 4 The Nightmare Prince

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Most of the maps here deliver satisfying challenges, and the permadeath aspect punishes you for experimentation within these maps. When you know you messed up between 60 and 65 days, having to restart from day zero can be tough to swallow. The campaign fares better as a more gentle introduction to They Are Billions. The tech tree locks away many of the game’s structures, units, and bonuses behind research points accumulated by completing missions. This means the early missions let new players learn the ropes by only having to worry about a handful of buildings and a couple of units, rather than potentially overwhelming them with too many concepts to understand at once. As a new player myself, I also appreciated the adjustable difficulty settings which let you advance more slowly through the research tree while at the same time serving up missions that let you progress with the lesser tech at your disposal. Then, once I was comfortable, I was able to bump up the difficulty to match my improved skills. Adding variety to the campaign are a couple of non-traditional mission types. There are Hero missions in which you control just one unit infiltrating a small base and Swarm Attack missions that are pretty barebones tower defense skirmishes. The elimination of much of the base-building and economic management–or indeed all of it in the case of the Hero missions–exposes the remaining combat as shallow. Worse, stripping out the core mechanics simply misses the whole point.

Survival Mode.

As a result, neither of these mission types are particularly enjoyable, and quickly become irritations you have to wade through to get to the proper missions. Adding variety for variety’s sake, in this case, only serves to diminish rather than enhance. They may not quite be billions but the undead threat that They Are Billions presents might be the best we’ve ever seen in any form of media. Some might cite The Walking Dead (either as a comic or TV show), the Romero films (or the epic Dawn of the Dead remake from 2004) or World War Z (the book, definitely not the film) as the best that zombie fans can get and those are good examples (well apart from The Walking Dead TV show). For us, the best zombie thing was probably Dead Rising (the original Xbox 360 game). It was fun, creative and brilliant but when it comes to sheer peril and zombies being an actual threat, They Are Billions by Numantian Games is as good as it gets. The game is primarily an RTS with a degree of survival, tower defence and resource management. Essentially it’s a cross between the early console Command and Conquer games (especially Red Alert) along with the DNA of A Kingdom For Keflings, Age of Empires and anything with a decent horde in it. The basic premise is that you pick a game length of up to 150 days. The longer you pick to survive, the easier it is. This is because while there are plenty of threats to contend with during those days, at the end a horde turns up and if you’ve not made your base watertight then you are basically getting your colony’s collective faces chewed up like beef jerky. Rayman Legends

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Before we get into that, we need to address the first elephant in the room which is that the game tells you NOTHING when you start. At the time of release there is just a survival mode and a challenge of the week. The main mode there is the former, and when you go into it you are plonked down in the middle of a randomly generated map and given a command centre. Beyond that there’s nothing. No tutorial mission, no written guides, no help of any sort. There are better guides than we could ever write, and we recommend all of them, but here’s our experience. We started on the recommended difficulty settings and started figuring out what to build. You create buildings and these help to create various resources, all of which you’ll need. First up you need housing as this will generate workers who are the main resource for operating other buildings and creating soldiers. You’ll need wood (saw mill), food (fishing and hunting cabins), iron and stone (quarries), oil (oil platforms) and money (which is generated from selling excess resources and just by having people in your colony). Once you’ve got enough of those to expand operations, you’ll need to research new technologies either related to further resource gathering, defence or attack. There are various tech-trees to follow and it took us several aborted attempts to figure out the best way forward but we got there eventually. It took a while though.

Explore the ancient human fortresses with your Hero.

Mainly, the game is pretty slow. Getting stuff done takes a while and in real time you can lose hours and days to They Are Billions. The game’s unforgiving save system means that you can’t afford to piss about either and so we found ourselves getting undone and this is what we were talking about in that first paragraph. You can have a good, functional colony going on but if one zombie comes in and you miss it, then it’ll start tearing down buildings and turning the occupants into zombies too. The infection can spread incredibly quickly and if you don’t have soldiers to hand, you’ll be done. Game over. Start again. It’s not just the zombie threat that can scupper you though. The maps are randomly generated and if you’re not near enough to some good resources, you may as well restart. If you’ve got too many ways in to your base? Start again. Giant zombie village one screen away from your start location? Start again. These are all lessons that are hard-learned when you’re trying to get started. Eventually we got our heads around it and made progress. The way the game works is that your map is full of zombies but at set intervals the game will send a bastard zombie horde at you from outside of one of the corners or middle edges of the map. These get bigger each time, testing you in new ways. You’ll realise you can’t afford to have any gaps in your defence. At the end though they’ll send enemies in from all directions, in a giant horde far worse than anything you’ve seen until that point.

The first time we got that far it was game over. Several hours of progress lost and our patience wearing thing. However, we got there in the end. There may not be different paths to success. We suspect that if you want to do well you need to follow the same general plan, getting the same general technologies as you go along. Surviving to the end is an amazing feeling though. The game may not have billions of enemies but you’ll be facing hundreds of them in those closing minutes and it’s a spectacular and terrifying proposition as you hope that your defences are solid enough to keep the undead bastards out. When it does, They Are Billions feels unlike any other game. Sure, we played it on 22% difficulty thanks to the modifiers we chose but if you want to complete this game for review purposes then you need to eat a whole vat of humble pie and yet we still feel like grizzled veterans. Many days into your survival campaign, the restless undead await outside your fortifications. It’s okay – you’ve prepared with a slew of stalwart defenses, snipers at the ready, and battlements ready to stave off any attack. The intruders come, banging on the gates, and you repel them all neatly. More are sure to arrive, but you have time to rebuild your resistance…or so you thought. With your gaze and efforts focused on the front line, a single zombie slipped through the cracks on your south wall and gained access to your hapless colonists. Because of that small oversight, an outbreak ripples through your entire settlement, spreading from within and turning your own forces against you. In moments, your once-great city lies in ashes.

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What do you do? Start again, of course! This time, you’ll be ready. They Are Billions has a challenging, randomized loop that places you as master and commander of a fledgling city in a variety of environments. In this captivating cycle, you continually refine your old strategies and develop new ones to handle the threat of invasion. The survival mode is the core avenue of play – building up a thriving colony from scratch, teching up, and expanding to take on greater looming threats. You have a variety of dials to tune before each game, allowing you to select the right difficulty for you, including how many days of preparation you have and how many undead (there aren’t actually billions, but there are enough) you must stave off. The game can be challenging even with a modest amount of difficulty selected, and with permadeath in play it can leave a bitter taste in your mouth after spending hours working on an impenetrable bastion. But if you’re like me, They Are Billions will make you hungry for even more punishment and perfection. A wide variety of units and buildings are available as you expand, and every outing is a different-yet-delightful deluge of the dead. Raise an army of rangers and clockwork titans to complement defensive ballistas and shock towers as you move through the tech tree. Once you master fending off the standard shuffling and slow zombies, variable types get thrown into the mix, forcing you to prepare for speedy threats and colossal terrors. Most games become a delicate balancing act of expansion, economy.Holodexxx: Riley Reid ‘Sneak Peek’ VR

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