Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville

Rebuild 4 when? I love the rebuild games. I just wish the iphone version had an easier way to get the deluxe addon to it.

I got this for like $10 a few years ago and all in all it's a simple, fun game that's well worth the price. An honest evolution of the games I played 8 years ago.

I had a bad first impression on this game due to the cartoonish artstyle and how all the factions are toned down compared to the other two games. For instance Gustav went from a sleazy pimp and merchant to a quirky circus merchant with the topic of prostitution much more rare and played down while the "vicious zealots and brutally mysogynistic" Last Judgement Gang are a far less aggressive biker gang and are just a bit mean to women from a "they should serve men" standpoint. Ironically, a new faction of misandrist girlbosses are introduced who only care about the living conditions of women and think only women are fit to lead, but they are presented as a morally "good" faction. Others include a group of conspiratorial anti-technology hippies, ~14 year old boys LARPing in what's supposed to be a deadly zombie apocalypse, a group of sentient zombies, The Gamers™, a zombie worship cultist, and "the government"- a military faction lead by a gay black woman. Very iNclusiVE. My view of the game improved overtime as I played it. The turn-based system has been replaced by a real-time simulation where you drag people to tasks on the map instead of selecting them from a menu, which helps with pacing outside constantly pausing to assign jobs: the story of 13 separate cities can all be beaten in about 35 hours on medium difficulty, for about 2.7 hours per campaign on average. The story was enjoyable to experience, with a "true ending" you get depending on special events from other maps (one of the conditions is considered to be bugged and is abnormally difficult to obtain). What you can do is train up "super citizens" with high skills and good equipment and then reuse them through the entire campaign assuming they don't get killed, although survivors can only get XP from one work type of task at a time and it takes some time in a school to change that, except for your own character. You really only need one leader and one scavenger You don't win by controlling the entire map, you have to stabilize the area by allying all other factions (takes a while), or destroying them, which is much faster. One gripe I have is there is no change in reputation with factions between campaigns in the story, so if go full genocide on one map the faction leader will disapear without a trace and magically have their entire faction rebuilt on the next map and have no memory of meeting you, and on some larger maps there can be some graphical glitches. Characters are given randomly generated backstories which gains new perks as you explore them, but there are so many people it's hard to care other than you inner circle, but you can't ignore the "story ready" prompt because it covers up the character's skill level indicator.