Zombie Block Defence is out on Android
Zombie Block Defence is now available on Android. Developed by Bad Bit Games, it is a strategy puzzle about protecting a lone hero with a limited pile of blocks, then watching a zombie horde inspect your workmanship. Mostly with its teeth.
You build before the attack, press Start when you are ready, and let the layout face the incoming crowd. According to the dev, zombies squeeze through openings and chew through weaker blocks, so leaving a small gap can turn a promising defence into a very short evening.
Mind the gap
The interesting part is the limited building supply. You cannot just keep adding walls until the problem disappears, and the dev says a clever layout can earn gold while using fewer blocks.
The campaign contains 50 levels, with the official site advertising hordes of up to 200 zombies arriving from four directions. A separate Daily Wave offers a new level each day.
There are also special blocks to work into your designs, including spikes, bombs, ice, brain bait and pits. These give you ways to damage, freeze or divert the crowd. Working out where to place them looks like the main attraction here, especially when the available pieces force a compromise.
The studio also lists collectible heroes, a prize machine and different victory and defeat animations.
About Bad Bit Games
Bad Bit Games is the games label of Abson Developments, a small British developer led by Lance Abson. Alongside its own games, the business takes on commercial mobile app work. Its publishing history includes Sugar Cubes and Ziggy Road, with releases going back more than a decade. That makes this an established independent developer with another game to show, which you can try for free (with ads and optional in-app purchases).
We have not tested it yet. For now, the appeal is the simple build, watch and rethink loop. Whether the zombies behave consistently enough to make every failure feel deserved is something a proper play session will have to establish.
Links
Google Play
App Store
Bad Bit Games and Abson Developments
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