Rabiez-Epidemic Demo

RabieZ-Epidemic is a zombie survival game with a twist. It’s played from a tactical perspective that allows users to issue orders.

Surviving a zombie apocalypse seems to be a very common theme in today’s games, so we’re getting pretty good at it. Players rarely get the chance of killing some zombies and be surprised at the same time, but they might notice that RabieZ-Epidemic is not doing the same thing as all the others.

First of all, in RabieZ-Epidemic you don’t get to control people fighting the zombie, you only get to direct people what to do. That’s easier said than done because it means that you’re relying on an AI that needs to be good. Secondly, the level of control over the units is somewhat limited, and you don’t always know what orders you have issued.

The story isn’t much. All you now is that people have turned into zombies, after an epidemic, and only a small number of survivor remain. You need to protect those people and to defeat the zombies, all the once.

As you can tell, there are several problems. Your units are controlled by an AI, which you direct to do various tasks, from killing zombies to protecting civilians. They are not all that smart, and they will get stuck in corners or behind buildings. You can’t really do anything about it, and you can’t tell from the UI what’s the order a particular unit is following.

Also, the zombies are quite fast, and they will chase your units all over the map. Odds are that you’re going to get killed very fast at the beginning, but things should get better once you understand the limitations of the AI and that you need to concentrate your fire.

The game doesn’t have great production value, as you can tell from the screenshots and the video, it doesn’t matter all that much since the developers are trying some new things, gameplay-wise.

The demo version is pretty short, and it only give users access to two maps, but they are mostly just variations, so you’re not missing all that much.