History VideoGame / TheyAreBillions

->''"Oh my god! Infected coming from every direction. [[TitleDrop THEY ARE BILLIONS!!!]]"''

** Infected Executives, are tougher and harder to kill variety of fast Infected. In a nice suit, too.

** 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.

* MoreDakka: Soldier units are armed with rapid-fire sub-machine guns while the Titan mechs are armed with dual gatling guns.

* ApocalypseHow: Straddling between Class (Societal Disruption) and Class 2 (Societal Collapse) as the surviving civilization settled inside a massive crater was able to recreate an infrastructure in a 19th-century technological base.

** Even the pre-apocalypse Earth wasn't rosy either. [[spoiler: The population of Earth by 22nd century has peaked around 90 Billion, majority of whom lived in crowded MegaCity with increasing shortages of arable lands to feed the populace. As basic necessities became harder for the majority of citizens, the scientists turned to [[HumanResources Human Protein Processors]] with [[KillThePoor criminals, infirmed, and the homeless]] serving as "raw materials". Three decades after the implementation of technology, a rabid-like disease--implied to have come from food sources made from Human Protein Processors--began to spread among the populace that led to the ZombieApocalypse.]]

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Some, okay almost all, of your high-tier units have sinister and intimidating names. Lucifer, Thantaos, Titan, etc...

* BoringButPractical: Want to know the most effective unit build order? Spam rangers until you unlock snipers then spam snipers. When you unlock thanatos troops starting recruiting a few of them to compliment your snipers and ignore everything else.

* 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 than the gunpowder units.

* FirewoodResources: Averted. Colonists don't need to carry the wood/food/stone/etc to the nearest Command Center. All resources go straight to the player's stockpile.

* IdiosyncraticDifficultyLevels: In Survival campaigns, the horde size and time limit have modifiers that range from Easy, through Approachable, Challenging, Difficult, Brutal, to Extreme. These two factors, along with the map type, combine to for a percentage difficulty scale (which is also applied to your final score). The default map with Challenging modifiers is 100%. With Easy modifiers, that drops to 20%. The final map with Extreme modifiers is worth '''800%'''.

* ColdSniper: The flavor text for your Sniper units specifically says "these sadistic killer would be in jail in times before the apocalypse." They are slow to move and reload but have a very long attack range and are extremely accurate. Their attacks are pretty powerful too since they can kill most of the infected with just one shot.

* BoringButPractical: Want to know the most effective unit build order? Spam Rangers until you unlock Snipers than spam Snipers. When you unlock Thanatos troops starting recruiting a few of them to compliment your Snipers and ignore everything else.

* 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 technological advances from the ruins of the old human fortress and cities, escorting a colonist group or destroy Infected villages.

* ApocalypticLogistics: Averted, as the survivors have regressed in tech but have started manufacturing new equipment roughly at the late 19th, early 20th century level. That said, one dev diary 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.

In the 22nd century a ZombieApocalypse has destroyed civilization and nearly the entire human population of Earth. Technology for those who survived has regressed to late 19th century levels with the collapse of 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.

'''''They Are Billions''''' is a PostApocalyptic SteamPunk [[SurvivalSandbox survival]] [[RealTimeStrategy real-time strategy game]] by developed and published by Spanish independent studio Numantian Games, known previously for the ''VideoGame/LordsOfXulima''. The game released on Steam's Early Access on December 2017 with survival mode. A campaign title "New Empire" will be released on June 18, 2019. Ports for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 will also be release in July.

* 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 the surviving civilization was able to maintain the ability to produce armaments and resources with functioning 19th-century technological base.

* ArtificialStupidity: Unless one your combat units aggro some infected, their default behavior once they make a beeline to your colonony is to attack the nearest unit or building, even if it is a wall or an empty tower. So it is possible for zombies to stupidly strike your walls and ignoring the very obvious gaping hole nearby. Even the Infected Venoms will stupidly try to attack your walls rather than a building behind it.

* Caelus, one of the two Hero units chosen at the start of a campaign, is this. He one-shots most basic Infected, but attacks and moves slowly. Contrast with Calliope, who is more of a GlassCannon.

* HopelessWar: Since Quintus Crane commenced his speech on reclamation of zombie-infested Earth two centuries after building up an entire civilization for two centuries, the entire liberation efforts experienced many failures within 13 years. The players themselves are the latest among many generals who had either died or driven insane from the disastrous results of their campaigns.

'''''They Are Billions''''' is a PostApocalyptic SteamPunk [[SurvivalSandbox survival]] [[RealTimeStrategy real-time strategy game]] by developed and published by Spanish independent studio Numantian Games, known previously for the ''VideoGame/LordsOfXulima''. The game released on Steam's Early Access on December 2017 with survival mode. A compaign title "New Empire" will be released on June 18, 2019. Ports for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 will also be release in July.

* AntagonistTitle: The "billions" in the title are the infected.

In the 22nd century a ZombieApocalypse has destroyed civilization and nearly the entire human population of Earth. Technology for those who survived has regressed to late 19th century levels with the collapse of 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.

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

* 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 technological advances from the ruins of the old human fortress and cities, escorting a colonist group or destroy infected villages.

* EliteZombie: Having an easy enough time dealing with the regular infected? Don't worry! The game will soon start throwing increasingly tougher varieties at you. Some examples include:
** Infected Fresh and Infected Colonists, which are just as weak as regular zombies but much faster.
** Infected Executives, a tougher and harder to kill variety of fast zombies. In a nice suit, too.

** Infected Chubbies, which are massive and extremely durable.
** Infected Harpies, which are extremely fast and can jump over walls.

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

* ArtificialStupidity: Unless one your combat units aggro some zombies, their default behavior once they make a beeline to your colonony is to attack the nearest unit or building, even if it is a wall or an empty tower. So it is possible for zombies to stupidly strike your walls and ignoring the very obvious gaping hole nearby. Even the spitters will stupidly try to attack your walls rather than a building behind it.

* DeadWeight: The Infected Chubbies move as fast as Fresh Zombies but are massive in comparison. They are also the most durable type of zombie.

* 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. Some examples include:
** Fresh Zombies and Infected Colonists, which are just as weak as regular zombies but much faster.
** Zombie Executives, a tougher and harder to kill variety of fast zombies. In a nice suit, too.

** Harpies, which are extremely fast and can jump over walls.

** On the Zombie side you have the Infected Chubbies which move as fast as Fresh Zombies and are also the most durable Zombie unit.

* ZombieGait: What the regular Zombies do, as their bodies have decayed too much to move faster. The EliteZombie variants are little bit more varied.
* ZombiePukeAttack: There is a ranged zombie variant that has this as a base attack. Can be shot over walls and infect buildings.

* AntagonistTitle: The "billions" in the title are the zombies.

''They Are Billions'' is a PostApocalyptic SteamPunk [[SurvivalSandbox survival]] [[RealTimeStrategy real-time strategy game]] by developed and published by Spanish independent studio Numantian Games, known previously for the ''VideoGame/LordsOfXulima''. The game released on Steam's Early Access on December 2017 with survival mode. A compaign title "New Empire" will be released on June 18, 2019. Ports for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 will also be release in July.

''They Are Billions'' is a PostApocalyptic SteamPunk [[SurvivalSandbox survival]] [[RealTimeStrategy real-time strategy game]] by developed and published by Spanish independent studio Numantian Games, known previously for the ''VideoGame/LordsOfXulima''. The game released on Steam's Early Access on December 2017.