Emerge: Cities of the Apocalypse

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" :/

Some nostalgia around this game - I played the demo in 2016 during my younger years. This was the first 4X I got really sucked into, more so than Civilization games (at that time). And I do like its isometric artstyle. However on revisit, I did not enjoy it as much. Very likely because I suck and I spread out my research points, but things got repetitive fast while also getting overwhelmed my enemies. Realtime sections were a chord (and AI wasn't much better either). With another sequel, maybe it could've turned out a better game.

The game is unplayable on windows 10, due to a crash after combat that occurs 50% of the battles for me. a game should not be unplayable and not supported 3 years after release, the dev should either fix it, or have the decency to remove it from the store since it can't be played on a new OS.

Yeah, don't bother. Cons: -Awful menu designs - many lacking any way to back up, causing you to be locked into making a choice after clicking an icon. It's very unintuitive overall. -Game does not close from the in-program menus. To get it to close, I have to use task manager to decapitate Emerge about a dozen times to get the damn thing to die. -While I can stomach the low resolution and low quality visuals, the main offender with visuals is that the game does not revert to my preferred display resolution upon FINALLY exiting. Every time I close the game, I'm greeted to a blurry 720p or lower desktop. Pros: -Decent writing with passable character-building. I would have liked to play the game longer and give a more detailed review, but based on the problems above, I already know this is an instant refund.

Avendo deciso di recensire ogni gioco che mi abbia conquistato per più di 100 ore, nello scorrere la lista ho ritrovato questo gioco del 2016, a cui ho dedicato la bellezza di 116 ore (24° posto per ore giocate nella mia libreria), anche se ormai piuttosto risalenti nel tempo. In estrema sintesi il gioco è ambientato in un mondo post apocalittico dove gli umani rimasti devono cercare di sopravvivere in un mondo infestato da zombi mutanti, cercando comunque di svilupparsi e ricacciando indietro le orde dei non morti. Il gioco mi colpiva per una certa originalità, infatti vi è una parte strategica a turni, nella quale dovrete collezionare risorse e sviluppare tecnologie cercando di espandere la vostra zona di influenza (insomma una sorta di 4X), su una mappa suddivisa in quadrati chiamati distretti. Al contempo, però, anche questi zombi mutanti si espandono e crescono di numeri e prima o poi vi incontrerete in uno di questi quadranti e qui torniamo all'originalità di cui dicevo prima, lo scontro qualora vogliate gestirlo non in automatico, sarà in tempo reale nella quale il vostro personaggio (esattamente, all'inizio dovrete scegliere un personaggio con determinate caratteristiche che dovrete poi sviluppare nel corso dei turni) da dietro una barricata dovrà cercare di sterminare l’orda assalitrice prima di essere sopraffatto in una sorta di “difesa della torre”. Non so spiegare esattamente il perché, ma nel periodo in cui l’ho giocato questa commistione tra i generi mi aveva preso parecchio e sforacchiare centinaia di zombi assalitori era fin quasi rilassante, anche se tutt'altro che facile! Detto ciò lascio il mio giudizio assolutamente positivo!

Overpriced mobile game that looks like an old browser game. Repetitive. Boring. Slow. Menus are terribly ugly. Stay away from this.

So the game is simply mediocre mobile type gameplay. But the reason I am giving it a no is that is actually changed my main monitors Resolution to 720p. Even after I closed the game. No game should do that. Easy enough to fix, but that's not the point.

Fantastic game. Good mix of turn based strategy like Rebuild and defense fighting like the last stand. Love it!