Enticing, but excruciating to play.

The game looks great and has a great premise, but the game is designed for sadomasochists. It desperately needs some kind of fast forward button. I've been wanting to play this for ages, as apparently it's revitalised the Stronghold style gameplay with some massive zombie hoards, but I've been extremely disappointed in what I've played so far.

1. Almost every mission follows the same things of: build tents, wait for train, build food, wait for resources, built tents, wait for train, build power, wait, build tents, wait ... etc. It's too formulaic. You're always just trying to build as many people as possible, whilst incrementally pushing up the various resource limits and incomes you have.

2. There's too much waiting. You're always waiting for the train, or for one of the resources to produce. Weirdly the resources come in 100s and 10s, but they delivery in discrete chunks, not as a continuous stream, so you're sat waiting for 565 gold to drop all at once, and then you spend it all, and then you wait for another 565 to drop in a minutes time. I'd prefer a continuous trickle. I feel like I'm playing one of those crappy mobile games where you have to wait 5 real life hours for your barn to be built.

3. I've basically completed the mission and have a base built, but I have to wait X ingame days before the big wave attacks. I have to literally sit there and wait. What a complete waste of time. Missions literally take a few hours each minimum, there is no way for you as the player to speed this up.

4. The entire game is about keeping out the zombie hoard, but it deliberately restricts the player's QOL in doing this: i.e. you can't see an individual zombie on the minimap, you can only really see clumps. So you have to constantly pan around your base looking for a stray walker.

Also:

1. lol @ the cinematics
2. The controls are wacky.
3. The unit barks are tedious
4. Needs font / UI scaling
5. The units have a mode to "shoot closest" or "shoot strongest". Neither seem to work properly as they're frequently being wailed on by a running zombie whilst shooting a slow one futher back.

nette idee, nervige umsetzung

not being able to save blows, can only play one scenario so many times before you get sick of it. will prob never finish this game.