History VideoGame / TheyAreBillions

Taking place in the 22nd century after a ZombieApocalypse destroys civilization General Quintus Crane is attempting to establish a new Human civilization capable of withstanding zombie attacks and slowly reclaim the planet. You are one of his field commanders; tasked with reconquering lands from the infected and building new colonies. And because of the collapse of civilization technology has regressed to roughly the level of the late 19th century.

The game is noteworthy for the sheer number of zombie units on screen and the ability to swarm over base defenses.

* ConstructAdditionalPylons: You will be building a lot of worker tents and cottages before a game is done.

** Harpies, which can jump over walls.

* RidiculouslyFastConstruction: As usual for a RealTimeStrategy game. A large town with a population of a couple of thousand people and large defensive fortifications along with an army can be built from scratch in less than one hundred days.

* ZombieGait: What the regular Zombies do. The EliteZombie variants are little bit more varied.

''They Are Billions'' is an up-coming SteamPunk RealTimeStrategy game by Spanish developer Numantian Games, known previously for the ''VideoGame/LordsOfXulima''. Currently the game is in early-access beta. Taking place in the 22nd century after a ZombieApocalypse destroys civilization General Quintus Crane is attempting to establish a new Human civilization capable of withstanding zombie attacks and slowly reclaim the planet. You are one of his field commanders; tasked with reconquering lands from the infected and building new colonies. And because of the collapse of civilization technology has regressed to roughly the level of the late 19th century.

* EliteMooks: Units that manage to kill enough zombies get a veterancy upgrade, a stat boost and a new skin so you can tell them apart from regular troops.

** Spitters, which have a powerful area-of-effect ranged attack.

* LightningBruiser: The Titan mechs.
* MightyGlacier: Lucifer troops, heavily armored soldiers armed with powerful flamethrowers, have a large pool of hitpoints (300) and a powerful area-of-effect attack that allows them to kill multiple zombies at once very quickly. They are also extremely slow. They are best used as a slightly mobile base defense force to be deployed in front of your defensive lines when dealing with horde attacks.

* InsurmountableWaistHeightFence: Almost all forests in the game are impassable for both your units and the zombies.

* CannonFodder: Your soldier units are the default infantry units and will likely make up the bulk of your army.

* BaselessMission: According to one dev dairy there are some campaign missions in which you will only control some units and have to accomplish specific goals like obtaining technology advances from the ruins of the old human fortress and cities, escort a colonist group or destroy infected villages.

* EliteZombie: Having an easy enough time dealing with the regular zombies? Don't worry! The game will soon start throwing increasingly tougher varieties at you.

* ReinventingTheWheel: Research options at the wood and stone workshops have to be purchased and re-purchased for each scenario.

* CannonFodder: You soldier units are the default infantry units and will likely make up the bulk of your army.

* ApocalypseHow: Straddling between Type 1 and Type 2 based on the trailer's database that numbered the total surviving population at 4612, [[spoiler: minus 850 souls of a destroyed colony]] but able to maintain the ability to produce armaments and resources with functioning 19th-century technological base.

* RainOfArrows: A preferred way to clear out sections of the map to expand you colony, especially early on, is to use a group of Rangers as showering the undead with arrows generates much less noise, and attracts less attention from other zombies, then the gunpowder units.

* FragileSpeedster: Rangers are the fastest infantry unit you can build early on but they smallest health pool (60 hp) of any of your units.

* ZombieApocalypse: And you are in charge of undoing the damage.

* CrapsackWorld: Well what can you expect from a zombiefied world?

* SchizoTech: Justified since it is the future after civilization collapsed. You are only able to manufacture new lower tech equipment and utilize high-tech items, such as night-vision googles, found in the old world cities.

* WorkerUnit: Colonists, who work, gather resources, transport goods and are used to train soldiers. You don't actually control them because the developers states since their are so many of them in would bog the player down in micromanagement.

* ArmyScout: Your Ranger units. They are some of the fastest units in the game with along sight radius and pack a steampunk bow so they can kill small of the infected without alerting a large horde.

''They Are Billions'' is an up-coming SteamPunk RealTimeStrategy game by Spanish developer Numantian Games, known previously for the ''VideoGame/LordsOfXulima''. Currently the game is early-access beta. Taking place in the 22nd century after a ZombieApocalypse destroys civilization and General Quintus Crane is attempting to re-establish new Human colonies capable of withstanding zombie attacks and slowly reclaim the planet. You are one of his field commanders; tasked with reconquering lands from the infected and building new colonies. And because of the collapse of civilization technology has regressed to roughly the level of the late 19th century.

* ApocalypticLogistics: Averted, as the survivors have regressed in tech but have started manufacturing new equipment. That said, one dev dairy said there are some tactical missions in the campaign with the goal obtaining advanced technology from the ruins of the old Human fortress and cities.