They Are Billions

The game mechanic is solid and good. but having no speed option, no save feature, doing a guessing game when building a structure is diabolical in "defence" game.

the balance in this game is wildly off, I like it but the lack of saves for a 4 hr plus session makes this 10x worse than even Elden Ring, just bad design overall. great story ruined by design

It's fun for the first few missions but its very clear the dev's gave up .Its just copy and paste same thing over and over again. Each map is just a new instance of the game. It's also a very frustrating game. Its makes zero sense to have to start from scratch at the start of each map.

Spend literal hours building a campaign map for one un notified zombie can literally snowball your entire settlement right in front of your troops who are stuck with only bows and arrows in a steampunk game, just play something better

This game is real gem in massive world of gaming. For sure it has some flaws considering explaining what you need and what you don't tech tree wise but still after 400+ hours played with trial and error it is is still quite all right in my books. Only down side for me is that it didn't get any DLC's expanding game or option to create custom campaigns like Warcraft 3. Considering that playerbase created great maps and kept expanding game on their own through maps and mods. I just keep wondering how much better game would be if you could actually make custom campaigns. Still game is hard and awesome. Great to spend a lot of time and i mean A LOT. Unfortunately it seems we will never see sequal or expansion since it wasn't updated for a long time. That's a shame.

[i]They Are Billions[/i] is an interesting idea that Numantian Games almost executed radiantly. Still, the issue of difficulty balancing and pacing overshadows all of the good that the product has to offer. With that being said, players will find their wooden walls to be as flimsy as paper, as a single infected or two can tear them down within seconds (which makes them completely impractical in attack missions and in the long term in normal missions). For a video game that centers itself on defending against unending hordes, they are more than uncharitable and less than realistic in providing players with an unreliable defensive structure early in the game. This would not be such a gruelling complication if a single infected could not infect a building in the blink of an eye, causing an almost irreversible domino effect. Missions are generic and can almost be blurred together seamlessly if it were not for the fact that some missions allow the usage of sea cells, which can provide a ...

The Game does not respect your time. It Has a lot of good things ultimately ruined by bafflingly bad design choices, notably: no option to save at all except one to quit the game and pick back up later and no option to respec your tech tree in the campaign.

This game is difficult. Each map will take a long time, and you can't revert back to old save points. You can save and exit, but you always resume at your save point, there is no going back to change your decisions. This is kind of nice as it makes all decisions very high stakes. But it also means you can screw up and see a lot of game time spent just be wasted as you lose because of one zombie slipping through your defense. I do like a hard challenge, but it sure does happen a lot. Even on the easiest difficulty mode. Maybe I'm just bad, but I'd say if you want a unforgiving challenge, this is it. And same for your research tech tree, you can't go back and change decisions. And you won't really know which research paths are important, or just plain necessary, until you die many times and eventually realize what you need. The game has basically no tutorial or documentation, it feels a bit unpolished and unfinished. About 2/3 of the time I felt I lost a map because of my own mistakes, b...

Possibly one of my favorite tower defense games. But it's definitely not one you can play in the background while you work, checking in every few minutes. It's like Dark Souls in that if you let your guard down for just a bit: YOU DIED 🤦‍♂️

2025 (or 2019 when it came out) and no manual saving lol Just don't bother.