

On top of this, weekly challenges are available which will keep players coming back to top the global or friend leaderboards. However, Numantian Games has given a brilliant amount of options in order to support players to tailor their experience with a range of map types, duration and infected population. The game has a steep learning curve and even in early play sessions, a small group of zombies, sorry, infected were too much for me to handle.

You get penetrated from every direction and failure to prepare means that you will be destroyed. Speaking of swarms, as the title suggests, towards the end of a game, it’s squeaky bum time. As a result of this, you progressively learn the mechanics and begin to manage your base more effectively through developing your settlement, exploring the environment and surviving the dreaded hordes, sorry, swarms… Instantly, you know where you stand and it’s usually facing a game over screen.

This is not a game that eases you into the gameplay loop, you are quickly thrown into an environment where you need to protect your command centre otherwise it’s game over. It will take those glasses, destroy them and then slowly insert them into your rectum. If you have fond memories of the good ol’ days playing C&C Red Alert or Total War and want to revisit the genre with rose-tinted glasses, then stop right there as this isn’t the game for you. They Are Billions is a survival RTS, developed by Numantian Games, and was released in June 2019 on PC and ported to PS4 and Xbox One in July, however this game was released as Early Access way back in December of 2017. Craving for a game like Command and Conquer? Not sick of the zombie sub-genre? Well, if that’s the case, this game could be for you!
