Therma Bytes Take The Strategy Game Concept And make It un.
About The Game
Cure, don’t kill, the undead hordes in this ironically vibrant base manager inspired by genre giants like Prison Architect, Timberborn, and Two Point Hospital. Mindless walkers roam the earth and only a handful of human survivors stand ready in defiance. Help these brave scientists find the cure by putting them to work!
Gather resources like food, wood, and stone to establish a base and research new technologies like freeze rays. Capture zombies at night and attempt to cure them. Success means turning back the doom clock for humanity! Keep your newly treated Humbies (half-human, half-zombie) happy with comfortable quarters and a well-stocked kitchen, to prevent them from succumbing to their flesh-eating instincts…
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The Gameplay
In “Zombie Cure Labs” you start out with a set amount of workers and a base camp the idea is to assign some workers to the base camp and build resource camps so the workers go out and gather resources. You can then use these resources to craft things for the base. During your time playing the game you will see that you will need to fulfil your workers needs from sleep, hunger, danger etc. Once your workers have gathered enough resources you can erect a room and designate that room to be one of many things however for the sake of this review we will go with a bedroom, so we build the room and once the workers have put the newly designated space together we have to add a door, a bed, couches, training equipment, all this equipment will allow our workers to rest and regain that stat to keep them happy. During the night period of the game zombies attack so you have to defend you base via freeze guns using these freeze guns on the zombies allows you to potentially turn them into humbies and have them work for you on the base but beware, one wrong move and they could turn back to the flesh eating zombies they truly are.
The Tutorial
The tutorial in Zombie Cure Labs actually does its job really well the tutorial is split across three maps the first teaching you how to manage your employees, place camps and gather materials and ends with you building your first room. The second tutorial teaches you once again how to gather materials and then we get taught how to fight a wave of zombies off. the rest I will leave up to you to find out for yourself after all we cant give it all away.
Quality Of Life
Zombie Cure Labs does have a ton of quality of life within the game which most strategy games do not have well at least the once I have played. The ability to triple speed up the work force is a blessing on its own and one that I have not seen many times in these kind of games however I will say I do not play many of these kinds of games. another quality of life that I absolutely loved was the ability to move your resource camp just hover over it press and button and then move it somewhere else so your workers can gather further resources.
Our Thoughts / Overview Of The Game
Zombie Cure Labs plays like a dream its a light hearted game but serious in its own right. The game teaches you how to play without feeling pushy about doing so and I feel that will introduce a lot more people into the strategy genre, we loved the art style and the way the game feels. Zombie Cure Labs has a decent story behind it too and a ton of quality of life that just works.
