Fort Zombie is a focused-scope, casual RPG title in which the game world revolves around a single building – your fort – and the mission specific chunks of the small town that surrounds it. Instead of a major city or a vast countryside, player’s focus their efforts on building up a single structure, finding and training survivors, and venturing out into town looking for supplies.
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I'd like to start off by saying the idea behind this game is genius. You would think with all the zombie craze going on lately, someone would have made a zombie strategy game. This game takes that a step further by mating it with a action game style interface. Now that I've said that, let me say here's where it falls down...
The interface and mechanics are a tad bit unworkable. I realize that it's going for realism, but it took me a dozen tries just to get to my fort. The procedurally generated town is nice. And adventuring around in it is a blast. But at the beginning of the game it's damn near impossible to survive. Again, it's real, but it doesn't make for fun.
So I get good enough to be able to get to my fort every time... What's next? I dunno. The game really doesn't give you any directions. But it gives you missions, and prioritizing which ones is fairly easy. I thought, first thing I need is people. So I take a people mission. Almost die getting to them to find out they don't like me and won't follow me.
With a little work this game will be great. Until then, don't waste your money.