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!askgaming@piefed.social
Can be done in Project Zomboid.
It's not the goal or anything; it's a hardcore sandbox survival game where you are expected to die. But you can set it up so the zombies do not respawn making a set limit to them, and kill every single one in a city, or even the entire map.
With mods you can even make it so that you can eventually have a return to normalcy.
was an old flash game from when those were a thing, based around worker placement and resource management.
Rebuild 1/2 etc. has reclaiming the city block-by-block. (send your people to scavenge, kill zombies, claim building, or recruit survivors). Only management.
Decision is a top-down 2D shooter series where you claim zones (similar idea as rebuild I guess, more RTS-like elements? can't remember).
Rebuild 3 is so good. I have finished it like 3 times 👌
I couldn't remember the name, but Rebuild was the flash game. It had some elements I really liked.
And I have added Decision to my wishlist now. Gotta love some non-isometric top down shenanigans. Might hit the right spot if the other elements are good too.
Cataclysm DDA. It's a roguelike zombie survival game with an extensive crafting system. Not sure exactly if this meets your criteria, it has no new spawning zombies. You can kill all the zombies, but the city doesnt get repopulated with people.
In my current game i've nearly completely cleared the nearest city and have reclaimed a farmstead on the outskirts and installed solar panels and have livestock and vegetables planted.
I tried CDDA for the first time just recently. I get the feeling i'm going to need to learn a lot. Interesting that it has that element though.
You could probably accomplish this in Project Zomboid by messing with the sandbox settings a bit.
I haven't tried Zomboid yet. I might have to move it up the priority list.
It's surprisingly decent. I avoided it because I really don't like isometric games and it seemed really janky for a modern title, but it was pretty fun once I got the hang of it. Unfortunately it's not quite finished and missing a decent amount of features. The next beta adds a ton to the game but multiplayer isn't stable yet and thus isn't available without mods, which is unfortunate because the game is much better with friends.
If the game is the sort of thing you're super into, it's worth picking up now. Otherwise waiting for the stable beta 43 would probably be the play.
To be fair, calling Project Zomboid unfinished is like calling Dwarf Fortress unfinished. Zomboid's feature set in its current state for Build 41 is already much higher than the feature sets of a lot of "finished" games on the market, so even though the developers consider it unfinished, an average player could have a hard time seeing it as unfinished.
If an update dropped that said something like:
That's the kind of update you expect from a game like Dwarf Fortress, Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead, and Project Zomboid.
This is a good disclaimer for what is, at the end of the day, an unfinished project. It's well worth it for me though, but then again I don't mind playing solo.
maybe infection free zone might be something to look at though its her much a strategy game unto them
Interesting. Adding it to the list.
I unfortunately do not know of anything like this but this is also appropriate to ask in !videogamesuggestions@lemmy.zip
Thanks for the suggestion. Crossposted.