History VideoGame / AtomZombieSmasher

* HowlingToTheNight: Whenever night comes, and usually lots of zed begin to surround the area.

* EverythingsBetterWithLlamas: Llama bombs, which eliminate a zombie infestation.

* MooksButNoBosses: For the most part of the game. All, if you don't count BossInMooksClothing

* CoolHelmet: One of the characters shown in the page image, [[NoodleIncident "Animal"]] Smith, is always wearing his Viking helmet.
** Subverted in the final cutscene: [[spoiler:Smith's child with Adele Deering has small horns growing from its head.]]

* MacrossMissileMassacre: Catbird Cannon and Elephantbird both result in this.
** Also, to a lesser degree, the upgraded regular artillery.

* NuclearOption: They're called Llama Bombs.
** Actually, these are bioweaponry. Literal weaponized llamas.

* NonEntityGeneral

* PointBuildSystem

* SaveScumming: Your game saves every time you win, lose, or concede a level, making it impossible to 'undo' an action. Unless you realize that, as noted [[http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1987955 here]], your savegames are saved in the AppData folder. Amazing how much FakeDifficulty can vanish when you can SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong?
** While you can restart a mission, the permadeath option prevents you from doing so. However, there's an exploit (save the game via the menu) that bypasses this no-restart restriction.

** May be explained as the increasing experience of those who set them up, allowing to make more in shorter timeframe.

* VideogameCrueltyPotential (as well as SadisticChoice): ...on the other hand, accidentally (and [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial "accidentally"]]) blowing up civilians close to the zombies is not infrequent. The nature of the game also means choosing which civilians to evacuate, and which become zombie fodder. The author has stated that putting the player in a position of making difficult decisions is part of the design.
** You can accidentally blow up your snipers or infantry, too. [[UnexplainedRecovery They get better]].

* ZergRush: At night, zombies come swarming in from every single entrance to the city.
** There are also monthly modifiers that can shorten the length of a day or make the zombies run even faster (thankfully, you can't get both at once, unless you turned on the Hardcore mod).

A [[RealTimeStrategy real time strategy]] game by Blendo Games, released in 2011. Included in the third [[UsefulNotes/HumbleBundle Humble Indie Bundle]].

A [[RealTimeStrategy real time strategy]] game by Blendo Games, released in 2011. Included in the third HumbleIndieBundle.

* AWinnerIsYou: The ending is the same, no matter who actually won.

* [[SniperRifle Sniper Rifles]]: One mercenary unit is a team of snipers set up on a rooftop. While you can tell them which direction to shoot in, you can't target individual enemies, and they stop shooting while rotating to a new position.

* Veteran Unit: All mercenaries level up. Even barricades.

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: It's highly improbable that there are no territories with Zeds on a given turn, but there are small scientists bonus and dedicated messages there just in case.

* ForMassiveDamage: Your artillery not doing enough damage to the bunch of enemies there? Rescue some more civilians and kill some more Zed, unlock a firing of the Catbird Cannon and pulverize everything in a large radius.
** Then there's the "Elephantbird," a massive artillery gun that replaces all other mercenaries on your roster. Both fall under MacrossMissileMassacre, with the Elephantbird firing more shells with far greater accuracy and reloading near instantaneously. It's sadly only available for use once an in-game year, while the Catbird is available every round after being unlocked.
** On the other hand, high level artillery with researched upgrades can be potentially more powerful than Elephantbird. Then there's the Triplets mutator, which lets you take more than one of them...

* CrueltyIsTheOnlyOption: Most often than not, you will just have to sacrifice some civilians to rescue the rest, especially at the very first mission, which cannot be won perfectly (this is, by killing all zombies, which automatically saves all civilians).

* AlternateHistory: It's 1961, electrical computers have been around for decades, and you were trained in orbit. The Zedpedia does a fine job of providing background information, but one of its fake references slipped up and calls an European city by its real name.

* CutAndPasteEnvironments

** While you can restart a mission, the permadeath option prevents you from doing so. However, there's a glitch (save the game via the menu) that bypasses the no-restart restriction.

* EverythingsBetterWithLlamas

* RandomlyGeneratedLevels: A large part of the challenge.

* PyrrhicVictory: Rescuing just the minimum amount of civilians required will often result on the zeds outscoring the player on that mission, even though it was "won"[[hottip:*:Should you lose and/or concede defeat properly, though, your mercs will not earn any experience]]. On the late game, not scoring a huge amount of points can feel like this because the zeds ''will'' catch up quickly thanks to them infecting territories for free each turn.

** There are also monthly modifiers that can shorten the length of a day or make the zombies run even faster (thankfully, you can't get both at once).

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: One new game option guarantees you will have at least one "offensive" unit in your monthly roster.

* TooDumbToLive: Some civilians decide to run straight into the attacking zombies instead of to the helicopter 20 feet away. [[WordOfGod A news post at Blendogames's website]] describes how civilians run either A) Towards the helicopter, or B) Away from the nearest zombie, and in both cases [[ArtificialStupidity ignoring whatever might be in the way]].