2026-01-22 15:16 UTC · Community Announcements · Numantian Games
Hey everyone!We're thrilled to announce the release of They Are Billions for Nintendo Switch 2, available now as of January 22nd!As a major highlight, it's one of the few games on this platform that supports the Joy-Con 2 mouse mode, making the experience just as smooth as on PC. Of course, you can also play with the gamepad, but we highly recommend giving the Joy-Con a try!The DevelopmentNintendo Switch has always been one of our favorite platforms. Two years ago, we attempted to port They Are Billions to the original Switch but, as you know, it's a very demanding game even for PC. The only w
2024-07-08 19:55 UTC · PCGamesN · editor@pcgamesn.com
I love a good strategy game, especially when it combines multiple genres and mechanics like tower defense and dungeon crawling. I also love killing zombies, as I think most gamers do. Well, in the aptly named They Are Billions, you can slay (as the name suggests) billions of the nasty creatures. And right now you can do it for 30% off, the game's lowest price. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: They Are Billions leaves Early Access and gets a 60-hour campaign They Are Billions update adds the Six Wonders They Are Billions gets weekly challenges and explosive barrels in its latest upd
2020-11-11 08:11 UTC · Community Announcements · Numantian Games
Hello everyone! We have been working for a while on improving and expanding the They Are Billions level editor. The first big update, available right now in the new version V1.1, allows to modify the rules of the game. You can now modify all the parameters of the units, buildings and enemies in your custom levels. Every time we make this kind of modifications we have to be very careful because it can affect both the original game and the hundreds of levels that the community has created, any change must guarantee full compatibility with everything that already exists. The modification of the r
2020-11-06 13:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Graham Smith)
Looking back at it now, 2020 doesn’t feel like a banner year for strategy games, but that doesn’t mean there haven’t been a few gems. The list below – gathered by a panel of experts and regularly updated – contains games from as recently as 12 months ago alongside classics from as far back as 28 years ago. They’re all games we think you could play and love right now. (more…)
2020-08-25 10:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Nate Crowley)
‘Building’ is a pretty broad theme. There are a lot of games where you build things, after all, and they can be very different. Helpfully, then, I’ve split this list of the 20 best building games on PC into four sections, each covering a sub-category of this big, messy genre. (more…)
2020-01-29 16:34 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (RPS)
For a time it looked as though strategy games had sunk into a kind of deathly malaise, unsure which territory to claim next and which ones it should leave well and truly alone. Fast forward to 2020, though, and strategy games have never looked healthier, which is why we’ve compiled this best strategy games list of all time. Whether you want to conquer the depths of space, wage historical warfare or hulk around in big mechanical robots, there’s a strategy game for you below. (more…)
2020-01-06 10:11 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (RPS)
2019 was a great year for PC games – aren’t they all? – but you might not yet know what the very best PC games of 2019 were. Let us help you. (more…)
2019-12-22 17:16 UTC · Community Announcements · Numantian Games
There is always time for a celebration amongst friends, even for those who keep us safe from the zombie apocalypse. Who would have thought that cooking was one of the Sniper's skills! Happy Holidays and happy New Year from Numantian Games to all the They Are Billions community! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28988182/6bccc95249922dbac18e1da63c86d00066ed7146.jpg
2019-12-04 15:08 UTC · Community Announcements · Numantian Games
Greetings! Great news! The Campaign mode of They Are Billions is finally available for consoles for free. To play it just let the game update automatically. It’s been almost six months of hard work. We know that some players were upset because this mode was not available for consoles at the same time as it did for PC, but it required all that time to port and adapt the game to consoles. Some games are developed at the same time for PCs and consoles because they basically work the same way, but for They Are Billions the interface and handling are drastically different. In addition, it’s been ne
2019-09-03 10:54 UTC · Eurogamer
Stationary, uniforms, maybe a new laptop - that's what we'd usually expect to see in a Back to School sale. Not for GOG, though. Instead, the cheeky focus is on parents who now have some extra time on their hands to game again. And there are some serious timesinks available for cheap in the GOG Back to School sale. Massive RPGs, engrossing sims and gripping stories are all well represented, with savings of up to 90 per cent up for grabs. Of course, as we're dealing with CD Projekt here, you can find the entire Witcher series on sale. If you're still yet to play the latest entry, you can get Th
2019-07-10 16:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (RPS)
Summer. The heat age. Scorch season. Spring’s hangover. It’s the mid-point of the year and you know what that means. No, not “mojito time”, Geoff, put those away. It’s time we told you what the best games of the year are so far. There are quite a lot of them. Just look how many videogames have escaped from their developers in the past six months and are now running amok through the blistering streets, getting stuck in the melting tarmac, like ants in jam. It’s unsanitary. So allow us to round up these unruly games and trap them in a handy list. Here are ou
2019-07-05 15:30 UTC · Community Announcements · Numantian Games
Greetings! We are very happy to announce that They Are Billions is available for XBOX One (right now) and PS4 on 9th July. The time has come for console players to also enjoy this RTS. Although for the moment it’s only available in the Survival mode, we will also bring the Campaign mode to this console in the near future. An RTS in consoles? Indeed, there are not many RTS games in consoles. This genre is mostly exclusive to PC because its game mechanics make it essential to use a mouse and keyboard. But at Numantian Games we have accepted the challenge. First of all because we truly believe th
2019-07-02 15:02 UTC · Community Announcements · Numantian Games
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28988182/d91c942fac96f9e18da896891368a0a89c8189a7.jpg Spoiler: Developers are scared .... more in V. 1.0.10 ... Greetings! It's almost incredible that we didn’t think of this before... TAB has always stored in a Steam variable the total number of zombies killed by each player, in order to unlock the Infected Killer achievements. So, now those values are added to another global Steam variable that contains the sum of all the zombies killed by the entire Steam community. Since version 1.0.8 this information is being uploaded to t
2019-06-24 16:58 UTC · Community Announcements · Numantian Games
Greetings! We continue working to improve the game and, our number one priority, to fix all the bugs and issues. Since the release They Are Billions has between 15,000 and 20,000 simultaneous players, and has been played for more than 2 million hours in the last week. Amazing! A billion thanks to all players! Something pending to include for future versions is the counter for the total number of zombies killed by all TAB players, updated in real time on the game's menu screen. That could be very, very interesting :) Now, let us run you through everything you can find in the new version, of cou
2019-06-24 14:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Nic Reuben)
Developer: Numantian Games Publisher: Numantian Games Release: Out now On: Windows From: Steam, Humble, Official Site Price: 24/$30/ 25 Occasionally, when I pause They Are Billions and zoom out on my tightly packed, grid-based steampunk settlement, I think about how the tiny families in the centre could have just as easily lived their entire lives without ever seeing a single zombie. There s little in the way of a fixed story or characters in this survival strategy, either in its separate challenge maps or ambitious, flawed campaign. But there is a constant mood of melancholy, darkening the
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