Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville

Northway Games

About this game

It's been a few years since the zombpocalypse turned the world's cities into graveyards and sent the few survivors into hiding. Now you must gather them up and restore civilization to a ruined city, one building at a time.

Rebuild 3 is a strategy sim game with a good helping of narrative and dark humor. It's a thoughtful game that'll make you fond of your survivors before you send them to their deaths for the greater good. As you expand your fort to new buildings, you'll decide between farms or fortifications, housing or hospitals, and make tough decisions to fend off raiders, illness, starvation, and madness. And the dead are still out there wandering the streets, hungrier than ever.

This sequel to the "unputdownable" Rebuild Mobile (aka Rebuild 2) is much MUCH bigger. Just check out these features:

- 4X style strategy and city (re)building
- Endless replayability with randomized cities and events
- Survivors with individual skills, perks, relationships, and stories
- Rival NPC forts with their own agendas, friendly or otherwise
- Campaign Mode, a journey through cities of increasing size and difficulty
- Strategic fort defense and interactive attacks
- Play in either real-time or turn-based mode
- 5 skills: defense, leadership, scavenging, building, engineering
- 10 resources and one-use items to find or craft
- 30 missions: scavenge for food, kill zombies, farm, fish, trade, bartend...
- 35 node research tree
- 50 building types with unique uses and/or scavengeable resources
- 70 types of equipment to find
- 100 survivor perks: Melee Training, Green Thumb, Light Sleeper...
- 200,000 words of event text - enough to fill two novels

Ratings and reviews

This is by far one of my favorite games. I've poured easily 40 hours into it. I love the reclaiming aspect of the survival to the myriad of options for specing out your base. I build little teams to have like the Swiss army of skills to maximize reward/victory. You can play full on diplomatic, or you can be a gun blazing military commander. Now, the praise aside, I come to ask for more. Let's add some new roles/skills. New weapons. More building types. Id play another 40hrs easy.

The game is fun, but for one that has been out this long, the number of bugs is unexeptable. Hence, the one star. Multiple times, I have gotten attached by a hord of zero zombies. Fix the bugs, and we can talk about the rating. Also, the game gets very repetative very quickly. Lastly the music will give you a head ach.

The first game had everything right Well except for the graphics I suppose But even then they are still great for the time it was released in Rebuild 3, which skipped 2 for some reason, has cartoonish (which would be alright if the game was actually an improvement over the last one) graphics and overcomplicated UI menus that turn the experience of the game into a hell scape that even the characters in the game world would have a hard time navigating. Better off playing the last game for fun.

What's new

Update to Android API 35
Achievements have been disabled (I'm sorry, they broke)
Remove old link to now-defunct forums
Fix pastebin backup/restore system