Indie · May 29, 2015

Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville (2015)

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It's been a few years since the zombpocalypse turned the world's cities into graveyards and sent the few survivors into hiding. Now you must gather them up and restore civilization to a ruined city, one building at a time. Rebuild 3 is a strategy sim with a good helping of narrative and dark humor. It'll make you fond of your survivors before you send them to their deaths for the greater good. As you expand your fort to new buildings, you'll decide between farms or fortifications, housing or hospitals, and make tough decisions to fend off raiders, illness, starvation, and madness. And the dead are still out there wandering the streets, hungrier than ever. Features 4X style strategy and city (re)building Endless replayability with randomized cities and events Survivors with individual skills, perks, relationships, and stories Rival NPC forts with their own agendas, friendly or otherwise Campaign Mode, a journey through cities of increasing size and difficulty Strategic fort defense and interactive attacks Play in either real-time or turn-based mode 5 skills: defense, leadership, scavenging, building, engineering 30 missions: scavenge for food, kill zombies, fish, trade, bartend, craft... 35 node research tree 50 building types with unique uses and/or scavengeable resources 200,000 words of event text - enough to fill two novels Bonus features in the Deluxe Survivalist Edition Desktop version of Rebuild 1 (previously only available in browsers) Desktop version of Rebuild 2 (including 'winter' mobile content) 5 bonus professions for your main leader 5 corresponding unique items PDF artbook

Indie releases from 2015

32 Indie titles launched in 2015 — top 6 by review volume.

Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Colony Sim · 290
  • Survival · 280
  • 4X · 277
  • Strategy · 271
  • Post-apocalyptic · 267
  • RPG · 265
  • City Builder · 260
  • Zombies · 254
  • Choices Matter · 250
  • Turn-Based Strategy · 239
  • Building · 234
  • Base-Building · 233
  • Simulation · 228
  • Sandbox · 228
  • Management · 228

Peer Indie titles

Comparable titles in the same genre and review-volume band — ranked by Steam positive percentage.

Position in Indie

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume1.9k Steam reviewsTop 98% in Indie
Positive rating86% positiveGenre average: 87% — this title sits in top 65%
Metacritic75/100Genre average 77 — top 63% of Indie titles
Engagement hours17 h averageTop 37% for session depth among Indie

Reception Metrics

Steam community

86%Very Positive · 1.9k reviews

1.7k positive · 272 negative

Metacritic

75/100 critic aggregate

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Curator recommendations

1.5k

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

17h

moderate (15–40 hours)

Median

10h

Typical completion time

2-week avg

1h

Current engagement

Achievements

42

Steam unlocks available

Features & Capabilities

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Trading Cards
  • Steam Workshop
  • Steam Cloud

Other

  • Single-player
  • Family Sharing

Release & Availability

Release dateMay 29, 2015
DeveloperNorthway Games, Sarah Northway
PublisherNorthway Games
Base price$4.49 -70%
PlatformsWindows, macOS
Estimated owners100k–1M
External linksOfficial site · Metacritic page · Support · [email protected]

Editions & Packages

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