Разработчик: Emilios Manolidis
Описание
But not any more! Choose a character and embark on an epic quest to restore civilization and eradicate the undead threat!
Key Features
- EXPLORE AND EXPAND: Restore derelict metropolises, one turn at a time! How will you spend your Action Points this turn? Will you scout a nearby sector, then clean your weapons and check out a new recruit? Or will you patch the hole in your defenses and then blindly move into unexplored territory?
- REDISCOVER LOST TECH: Plot your course over an expansive, multi-branched research tree! Bring forth scientific marvels, or start a second industrial revolution! Or perhaps, build a strong economy and make powerful alliances with merchants and mercenaries!
- MANAGE YOUR TEAM: Choose your character class and find or recruit survivors. Gain experience and improve your team's skills and equipment. Find and buy tons of weapons, mods and usable items! But beware, for fighting the undead can be deadly...
- BUILD AND FORTIFY: The Apocalypse has ravaged cities' infrastructure, and it's up to you to restore them. Construct improvements in captured sectors to empower your cause. Produce automated defenses to help you weaken or eliminate invading undead armies!
- FIGHT THE UNDEAD ARMIES: As turns pass, more dangerous undead appear. From acid-spitting zombies to undead, armored soldiers, there are no limits to the horrors you will face. Set your snipers to aim for the head, have a bunch of grenades ready, and pray they don't reach your barricade in numbers!
- UNLOCK THE FUTURE: Relieve the world from undeath in campaign or skirmish mode! Meet mysterious survivors and determine the outcome of random events! Unlock new areas, enemies, classes, bonuses and challenges and lots of extra content as you play!
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8 / 10
- Processor: Pentium 4 3.4 MHz
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: 256 MB VRAM (nVidia GeForce 8800 GT / ATi Radeon HD 3870 or better)
- DirectX: Version 8.0
- Storage: 100 MB available space
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GG
Gave this game a genuine try but couldnt really get far. The ai of your team is worse than handing your 6yr old nephew the controller and they constantly die with good equipment. The ui is also atrocious with certain dialog boxes being 1 pixel big so goodluck finding it. Out of the 6 hours i played i spent a good 2 just fishing for that dialog box hitbox.
This game gets old really quick.
Its not that terrible but the same simple mechanics over and over again along all the stages that have small challenges for you to complete.. its just boring. It has small RPG elements but the fact that you have to start over from almost zero makes it really hard to care.
The bonuses you unlock as you complete stages are nice but not enough, I think that's what this game is for me, its good but not enough.
Still, I gotta stick with it for completion's sake and its so grindy.. I guess I could just manipulate a small level to have everything controlled and then just grind the turns until the 3 million credits or the 200k crystals, etc.. are earned.. but I get so bored, I cant play it for more than 30 minutes now.
The Tech Tree is bare bones, it looks like you could find different playstyles but in the end, it comes out to the same strategy over and over again so you can quickly move on to the same cookie-cutter city.
The enemies are the best thing in the game, they are really varied and each has its own thing, I cant say the same for the weapons, each tier of the same weapon is the same thing but with slightly better stats and even if you find a unique, awesome weapon, you cant take it with you, not that it would help since your characters have to start from level 1 each time.
Anyway, the game is not terrible, oh yeah, Ive played terrible games, this one, after a few hours, is just.. meh.
I just felt this game wasnt for me, idk, I cant recommend it, it's so boring and to me feels like a chore more then a game.
Emerge gets 6 flaming zombies out of 23 "oh no, all your barricades got damaged somehow" :/
Great game, but unplayable now.
Edit: i got a new super computer with win11 and now it works perfectly, go figure!
Warning, it just doesn't work well with win10, even with 'tweaks' it still crashes randomly during combat. No answer from the dev, no other "fix' found. Uninstalled regretablly.
edit: 10 more hours: I tried to give it a 2nd chance & with that legacy 'old game' app it still crashes too often after winning a battle. Not fun, especially with the janky as hell screen resolution issue when the game ctd.
Feb 2021, win10 : my game is crashing all the time.
Seems I need to install some legacy window stuff that was discontinued to get it working. After 2 hours & 3 maps with barely any sort of meaningful carry over from previous missions its feeling like a chore.
It was fun, not too terribly hard to learn, and I didnt get bored and wander off i a few minutes, which is a big deal for me. It could use more story though.
Decent game that could have been a good game if it had a bit more polish.
- After exiting the game from full screen, any windows for other program I had open are all resized and crammed into the upper-left of the screen.
- The pacing and difficulty are way off. After about 10 turns or so, there are multiple zones with a HEAVY zombie presence. You MIGHT have been able to unlock a second crew slot by then. MIGHT. Unlocks are ridiculously expensive, especially for crystals. The dev added "relaxed" mode to help with this a little.
- Unless you go hard towards production, it will be nigh impossible to keep a supply of defenses, and they get completely wiped when those massive hordes attack.
- There's no way (via mission or task) to attack zombie zones for the purpose of thinning them out. You either try to conquer the zone or you ignore it.
- The random events are not classified for early/mid/late game. What's the point of getting an event on turn 2 asking for 200+ crystals when it's not even possible?!?
- If you lose one of your crew, especially one that's gained some levels, you may as well start over....because you also just lost their sweet gear.
- Not being able to select all three saved campaign items seems dumb.
- The game hasn't been patched or worked on since 2017, so consider it abandoned.
I got this game off from a coupon, and I was skeptical about the game, but after playing the game for a few hours, I'm actually liking this game. Other than graphics and repetitiveness in the game, I don't have any problems with the game. It reminds of two games; The Last Stand and Rebuild. The game is a pretty fun game to play and it's challenging.
An okay game, but I can't really recommend it.
The concept is fun, accomplish objectives while securing chunks of cities block by block, building up your team and infrastructure. The problem is it gets extremely repetitive.
Every map you start over from the beginning, nothing researched and just one level 1 hero. Every map looks the same too, a square grid of square blocks. Different objectives might change the victory condition, but you still have to build up your secured blocks, and the strategy for that doesn't change.
It would have been fun to maintain a crew, to have research carry over, something to give a feeling of progression. The gameplay is okay, but it's not fun enough to play the same very basic start over and over and over and over. Even for fans of base building/defense, I'd recommend skipping this game.
Emerge: Cities of the Apocolypse starts in... well... the ZOMBIE APOCOLYPSE! You are a new leader trying to recontrol the entire city from zombies.
PROS
~It looks alright...
~The character customization is neat
CONS:
~It feels like there are only a few random events, where its either "lets trade for a tiny discount" or just a useless event that literally does nothing
~The "battles" are TERRIBLE! They're literally a FLASH GAME! Seriously, this game is pretty much a point and click flash game!
~its bare-boned, the new enemies dont really offer anything too unusual, going from "slightly faster" to "takes a few more hits"
~The controls are terrible for the "takeovers" and "battles" it made normal feel like hard, and easy feel like normal.
OVERALL:
4/10
Due to general lazyness and lack of creative ideas, this game isn't very good, Its literally a few flash games mixed together and saying "we created this idea! Now pay us real money!" If you are really set on buying it, go ahead, but you could just play the "exciting parts" on Newgrounds or something
An enjoyable game. It features some throw backs to old zombie games with resource management. It also comes with an isometric shooter, where you aim your cursor over the undead hordes that come down on you. You are also able to have quite a skill tree to pick from when you are upgrading your weapons, and abilities. One draw back to the combat system is that it's repetitive, but that is to be expected with most isometric shooters that are fixated in one position. It's definitely not enough of a draw back to not play this game.
If you like a nice throwback to older zombie games, and are a fan of base defense shooters, you will like this game. $7.99 isn't a bad price for the game, but I know you should be able to pick it up on sale also. I'd at least make it to your wishlist until it hits a sale.
Well i got this game on a whim and i haven't regret it yet, sure this game has a few issues with crashing and sometimes glitches which make you have to revert your save or restart your game but this is the fault of the engine it runs on, not the dev of the game.
I find this game wholly enjoyable and these 41 hours i have on record were from playing it non-stop day after day between work and other things and, though at the moment i'm taking a break from the game (I get odd moods for certain games from month to month) i still haven't finished the game and i intend to complete it! And i would recomend this game to anyone who likes survival games of this kine.
With real-time zombie defense shooting reminiscent of Newgrounds-era flash games, to resource management with the aim of upgrading, buying, and selling, Emerge: Cities of the Apocalypse is an amalgamation of many different genres.
Set in a vague futuristic post-apocalyptic backdrop, you're presented with a city map that you need to take back from the dead, block by block. Those who have played any of the Rebuild series of games will find many simularities: you need to balance out a multitude of resources, all the while expanding and upgrading the areas under your control. But it won't be easy: you'll need to defend from many different types of zombies and mutants, and ultimately you'll need to take the fight to them more often than not if you ever hope to expand beyond your walls (and win!). You won't be alone though: either through chance via random events, or straightforward hiring, you can fight against the undead with upwards of 3 characters. You can also set their combat AI. This is on top of a number of defenses you can implement.
In your downtime, you can choose to 'Take a stroll, see what happens' and possibly come upon a random encounter. In typical RNG fashion, it can either be positive or negative, and some you can actually choose how you respond to, but I found that the amount of events seem limited in scope. This is one of my few criticisms of the game, but it can certainly be chalked up to my preferences alone.
There is an element of replayability, with the chance to unlock different classes (some hidden), traits, map modifiers.
Overall, Emerge: Cities of the Apocalypse is a hidden gem. The aesthetics of the game, ie. the setting, art, and music choices all work seamlessly and the gameplay, while basic, does provide enough replay value to make this game good value for your money. At the very least, it's a solid time-waster. It's also worth noting that the developer seems very passionate about his work and more than a year later is still releasing periodic updates.
Definitely recommended. Support your indie developers!
I mostly play offline, which Steam apparently does not track, so do consider that my play time is at least (and easily) five times higher than what shows.
An amalgam of turn-based strategy and real-time "tower-defense" genres, Emerge is deceptively simple-looking for the replayability it offers. While the same elements that offer such high replayability also can cause somebody to burn out and get bored of it if played too much, on the other hand they do ensure that every time you return the game still holds its appeal.
The strategy part has all the necessary ingredients. You will upgrade what sectors you hold, defend them from attacks, visit the weapon and equipment store, and interact with random events as a result of either patrols or game progress.
The defensive mini-game is far less complex, but by no means utterly mindless. Depending on the choice of character classes, your different weapons will require different approach (though, frankly, a grenade-launcher is by far the best choice for the player-controlled character, and sniper rifles are superior to everything else for the AI). One excellent feature is the ability to modify the targetting behavior of your squad mates - and you certainly need to figure out how to employ them in the most efficient way before the big waves hit.
There is plenty of variation in enemy types, frequently influenced by special conditions each map offers. Along with various traits you can pick for your squadmates and their weapon choice, this offers plenty of room for experimentation. Although, in all fairness, there are some clear winners.
This is a somewhat recurring theme in Emerge - while there are lots of open possibilities, in the end only some of them will be truly worthwhile your attention. As another example, weapons offer two "mod" slots... but in the end, using some of them is more of a gimmick than actual benefit. Likewise for the technology progression - ultimately you will settle on a sequence of research progression that will only change when faced with specific map-enforced condition.
It rather sounds worse than it plays, though. There is plenty of fun to be had elsewhere. The different enemy types that slowly appear have the capacity to completely change your previous approach to combat. Unlocking additional classes gives you more options, though both weapon loadouts and trait availability (where again, some are far superior than others). The ability to transfer items between maps is nice, but you will probably settle on the highest +infrastructure mod (the variable that allows faster expansion) as soon as you find it and stick with it regardless of what else you find. Though that's more of a self-inflicted issue than problem with the game itself :)
Bottom line, Emerge is a very fun game that offers a LOT of replayability as long as you allow yourself to take a break whenever you begin to find it too repetitive. For me it is a pretty relaxing game, with enough challenge to it to work quite well as a way to relax after a stressful day at work.
Even for the asking price, it's a steal, much less when offered at a discount.
Got it for 5 bucks on sale. Def worth it for me and it seems like I'm not even halfway through the campaign. It's abit repetitive but then again what game isn't. Most of the positive reviews have 30+ hrs up to 100hrs. More bang for your buck if you'd ask me. Come to think of it, I must return soon to this as a turn-based game fan
If you love zombie games, this is for you, no question about it. I was looking for a base building sim, and while the style of Emerge is a bit different than I envisioned when searching for a game of this kind, I was pleasantly surprised. This is an exceptional title and offers tons of replayability not to mention a ton of hours of gameplay for a single playthrough. A mix of strategy, live action combat, base building, as well as RPG elements such as leveling, equipping, and selecting skills for your party, I could go on and on.
If you are looking for a zombie game this one is original, a ton of fun, and a great bargain.
Can't wait for future updates or an Emerge 2, I'm already sold!
This game is an easily missed gem. It doesn't fit neatly in to any particular genre, but incorporates several, combining into a unique game with surprising strategic depth. The main game is turn based strategy including research, resource management, and light RPG elements. Battles become a real-time tactical shooting minigame.
It's not an easy game. It's simple in that it the mechanics are easy to learn, but actually learning how to survive takes time and patience.
There is no progressing "campaign." Instead you play a series of several different maps, each with diffrent objectives and rules. A few examples include having to simply "secure" the map (control a certain number of sectors) within a turn limit, or locate a specific survivor, or you may be asked to beat a map with a spefic player class. Beating these maps may unlock new world regions, new player classes, items, or abilities which you can use in future maps.
The game is a labor of love by a single developer, and is not polished like a AAA title. The graphics are simple, but get the job done. The soundtrack is a decent futuristic techno grunge. The price is $8 when it's NOT on sale, so if you want a different take on a sci-fi zombie apocalypse, it's worth checking out!
This game is in dire need of a rebalance run. Or a difficulty selector. Or a huge nerf to RNGesus or something. If I can get a disaster on Turn 1 that forces an abandonment of the only territory I control aside from HQ, and get it multiple times on the first campaign, there is a major issue.
This is not a fun game. I am trying desperately to like this game, but each time I play it, I feel like the game itself doesn't want people playing it. I've had games where a survivor doesn't spawn for 20+ turns, games where not a single wander event came up positive, and games where invasions occurred every turn after turn 2. There's a limit to my patience, and this game breaks that limit every single time I try to play.
EMERGE: CITIES OF THE APOCALYPSE
WARNING: This is an addictive "One more turn before i will go bed" game!
Emerge is an unique 4X city-builder/defender which got crossed with some rogue-lite features!
What is this game about?
You'll have to save cities (Or die trying) by capturing/defending territories (An amount is required in each mission) and by doing a special objective (The real condition to win that matters).
I said "rogue-lite" cause you cannot manually save your game, it means you can't "go back" and you create an unique character for each mission. There are plenty of classes, starting bonuses and weapons to choose.
I could tell you things about this game for hours...
...But i prefer to give you a list of things as we are talking about something pretty big:
_Build defenses (Automated turrets)
_Manage random territories and capture these wisely (Each one gets its own statistics)
_Explore (Random but expected "positive" or "negative" event)
_Random events (The unexpected ones)
_Big amount of loot including items, consumables and weapons (Those last with degrees of rarity of course!)
_Build manufactories into your city (To improve your production, economy and science stats and even more things...)
_Defend or attack territories by yourself, alone or with recruits (Nicely done that action part of the game)
_Level-up system with perks to select (Each class gets its own skills)
_There are a campaign, skirmish and a challenge mode
_Spend your AP each turn carefully, in addition many options can be added on your AP bar.
_Research tree split on 3 branchs (Quite complex as you always want to pick up everything :D)
_More of + 15 types of ennemies to fight (With 3 bosses)
_And even more things you'll find out by yourself :)
To conclude?
First you'll find it hard, unbalanced and too agressive... And then you'll eventually learn (Unlike mostly of negative reviews who found it "impossible" within one hour or less) you'll find SO MANY possibilities, SO HUGE content to discover and unlock. Finally those ways you found firstly insanely tough, you'll laught about next :)
So yeah, i enjoy it VERY much. It's not a game apparently to put on every hands as not everybody gets the patience required to understand it well. But if you enjoy challenges, good replayability, countless of possiblities, then you have to try out that hidden little gem which is Emerge: Cities of the apocalypse!
Thank you for reading :)
Not quite a tower defense game but close and in a good way. It is different. This is the game I wanted Rebuild to be, but it lacked where this game has great detail and depth. I am enjoying this game a lot, and at the price it is a steal! The most fun you can have legally with your pants on, though I do recomend playing with no pants to add to the allure.
It's a simple game of territory control and resource management and there wouldn't be anything wrong with it, if it wasn't advertised as 4X and the price tag was 2-3 times lower.
Good things: combines two genres, one of them is survival game and it's not enough of those in the market.
Bad things: looks like an old browser game, not many abilities on the map, weapons progression is not interesting, combat is ok but repetitive and '4X' part is way too shallow.
Deal breaker, but it's very personal: campaign doesn't make any sense, you only take a few items into the next mission, and it's quite hard and slow paced game, so it doesn't feel right to play everything all over again. Even research is not taken into the next mission. Let alone the soldiers and their abilities you cared about. I'd play a few days if the metagame was progressive. But as of now I can't imagine people to recommend it to.
If you like survivor management games, I suggest playing Deadsville 3 - if you want something of a 'board game grade' simplicity. Or Dead State if you want a complex survivor base management with combination of something more meaningful (TBS).
A nice surprise from the Indie market, Emerge: Cities of the Apocalypse is an entertaining strategic zombie survival game. You won't be scavenging for supplies, directly rescuing survivors, or securing a clean source of water, though it has its own style of gameplay that I have found to be unique and fun in its own right.
Each scenario that you play involves you taking control over a small colony with the goal of expanding and securing the city around you. You'll be facing off against an ever increasing horde of zombies with new varieties arriving as time goes on. To achieve this goal, and often other scenario-specific goals, you'll be researching technologies on three separate trees to assist you. These tech trees will improve your resource collection (cash, crystals, production, and science) and will make your colony more effective at fighting off the encroaching ranks of the dead.
Though much of the game is spent looking down at the city from a bird's eye view, there will be times when you take a more direct approach in defending your colony. Your character, selected from one of three varying classes, will face off against the zombies in what feels like an improved Oregon Trail hunting mini-game. A variety of weapon types and skills that can be upgraded when your character and their compatriots level also adds a level of strategy to this as weapons and abilities add a considerable amount of options to develop your own style of play.
All in all, Emerge: Cities of the Apocalypse is an enjoyable game that I certainly don't regret spending my money on. I would give a forewarning to those who might be on the fence, it does feel like a well designed mobile game. However, when compared to said mobile games or the flash games that might do something very similar, Emerge does just enough to make those others obsolete on a purely gameplay basis.
I would recommend this game to anyone who is a fan of zombie apocalypse games and is wanting to play one that isn't survival in its strictest term as gamers have come to know it. It is an enjoyable strategy-lite that I can definitely see myself putting more hours into in the future.
An interesting game that takes parts of the old flash game, The Last Stand, and elements of the Rebuild series and combines them into a zombie game which features a continuous campaign where you fight map to map against the hordes of the undead with a character who can level up, gain skills on a 4x styled map. You gain resources that allow you to build turrets, buy weapons, and unlock new members who can help you defend your towns against the hordes of the undead. You can even fight battles both attacking and defensive in a barricade style like you would've seen in the Last Stand. It's all pretty badass. It's clearly been made by an amateur developer but there is a clearly a lot of effort with a very specific idea in mind and it combines to make one of the more unique zombie games I've played in a while. In summation, I highly recommend this game for the low price tag.
Gameplay Footage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8T9NcrKFdE
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Emilios Manolidis |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 24.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 66% положительных (111) |