Overview & Feature Analysis
Free base-building game
Last Shelter: Survival
is a
massively multiplayer
strategy
war game
in real-time. Players will take on the role of a leader in this game, leading a small village in a
post-apocalyptic
Earth devastated by the
zombie apocalypse
. The gameplay is fairly simple. A similar post-apocalyptic game is
LifeAfter
.
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Last Shelter: Survival
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You must
create your own wasteland kingdom
, prepare your troops, hire generals and heroes, and join your allies in a
never-ending battle
in humanity's final days. In-game, it's best to begin on a relatively new server. It’s easy to get into the top servers in a few months if you do well.
A war between humans
Last Shelter: Survival is
not a zombie apocalypse game
, despite the fact that it is marketed as such. Zombies can be found in the game but, they set the scene for the main event, which is a battle between you and other players. This is similar to some of the more common zombie TV shows, such as
The Walking Dead
, in which
human conflict
is the central theme.
To increase your total strength, you must first
expand your city
and acquire more infrastructure, science, and troops. You'll need a variety of materials, including energy, water, wood, beef, steel, petrol, and in-game currency, to accomplish this (that can be
purchased with real-world money
). Microtransactions are used to make the game
free to play
. The developers did a good job at persuading players to pay, since being successful requires investment.
Resources, such as steel and money become very difficult to acquire at the higher levels of the
game
. Playing for free will limit your chances to win compared with those who
fulfill in-app purchases
. Resources getting stolen by other players is possible, too, from time to time. This also means that you can target other players and
loot them
, too.
Fun for base-building game fans
Overall, you can have a lot of fun in this game however, the
zombies play a minor role
in the game, with the bulk of the time spent collecting resources and navigating the
puzzling system
of in-game currencies, as well as attempting to see the playing field through the flashy, obnoxious invites to
spend on upgrades
.