Make no mistake, They Are Billions is a game based on just a single trick that’s up its undead sleeve. But it’s a hell of a trick, one that’ll keep you ensnared in its tangled web of survival for dozens and dozens of hours.

Real-time strategy game They Are Billions is reportedly on the final lap of Early Access. Developer Numantian Games is gunning for an official release sometime in June of this year, and with it will come a brand new campaign to what is presently a straightforward zombie survival outing. In an extensive blog entry posted on the game’s Steam page, Numantian …

I’m afraid I’ve got some bad news for you, in case you were hoping a very particular combination of strategy, the undead and intense resource management: Superb zombie apocalypse simulator They Are Billions is going to need a little bit more time in the oven to finish cooking up its single-player campaign.

What’s worse than the zombie apocalypse? Easy: The zombie apocalypse, if it were designed by your friends. Real-time walking dead strategy game They Are Billions has been playing around with a level editor for the last two weeks, and with a little fine-tuning, that added layer of tactical zombie-slaying is alive and ready to slowly walk over to your side of the screen for a hot meal of leg of Larry.

Zombie steampunk strategy game They Are Billions was never just intended to be a thumb-blistering challenge mode of a game. What Numantian Games released this year, was supposed to be a teaser of things to come, a platform that would help bankroll the true aim of the game: A full campaign mode that would flesh out the decaying world of They Are Billions. So where is it? Like all good things in life, getting to the sweet undead nugget of narrative strategy has taken some considerable time to develop.

Post apocalypse zombie strategy game may rely on strength in numbers to overwhelm players, but zombie units wandering on their lonesome? Pretty easy to pick off when you have a squad of competent soldiers on the prowl. That’s all set to change soon in They Are Billions introduces a new unit to the enemy mix. Say hello, to the Infected Giant.

They Are Billions is adding trains soon, and they're pretty much what you’d expect them to be, regular arrivals that are nigh-unstoppable hunks of iron that can create a huge strategic advantage when a horde of the undead comes for your base.

It’s still in early access, but this slice of life after the zombie apocalypse has consumed many an hour of my life so far, and I can’t wait to see what the completed game looks like eventually. Said completion is taking another step forward this week, as the Walken Dead tactics game (I gotta have more cowbell…and brains) builds upon its foundation with a stack of tweaks and new buildings.