Zombie Cure Lab: A Different Kind Of Apocalypse – Popgeeks
The tropes of the zombie game are well known by now: it’s the apocalypse, you have limited resources, your single goal is to survive and blast as many zombies to piles of goo as possible. But what if there was a different option for that last one? What if there was hope to cure the zombies and turn them human again?
That’s the twist in Zombie Cure Lab, the new base builder and management game from Aerosoft and Thera Bytes. You play as the leader of a remote scientific outpost that has discovered an antidote for zombie-ism….well, a partial antidote. Your test subjects have reverted into ‘Humbies’, human-zombie hybrids that now serve as your mindless (yet harmless) workforce, but progress is progress. With the Humbies you can build and expand your lab, gather resources, and fight off / capture the zombie hordes outside. Your eventual goal is to find a full cure.
Note that keeping the Humbies happy is part of your survival plan. They may be benign now, but if they’re worked too hard or not fed enough, they’ll consider tasting fully human flesh again.
- Build, manage and expand a zombie-curing research facility
- Gather resources and process them to fuel your economy
- Plan efficient production lines and balance energy systems
- Assign distinct worker types across day and night shifts
- Capture zombies with freezing tech and treat them into humbies
- Keep your workforce happy or risk internal outbreaks
- Defend your base each night from roaming undead
- Research and unlock over 200 technologies to finalise the cure
Zombie Cure Lab will launch May 27 on Playstation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC.
