Chromosome Evil

How was this game released in 2022 and doesn't support a functional resolution for 4k monitors? Everything is way too small. No resolution options. Only fullscreen or window modes. No zoom options. Only an option to increase text size. The largest is just about okay, but nowhere near something one would consider big. I tried a command line to run the game in 1920x1080, but then had the classic problem of the in-game buttons being misaligned with mouse clicks. And no, I don't want to change my desktop resolution. Thanks, I choose life.

6/10

玩了WBC再玩二代，最后才是一代，游戏性不如但氛围很喜欢，WBC是在后方远程指挥有各种友军支援，二代直接成了 全世界最后一支正规军，一代这种还处于交战期时不时能碰到其他战线的友军部队感觉就像很多末日题材的影视剧中刻画文明逐渐崩塌的桥段，这个阶段政府军队还在运作但崩溃只是时间问题，可惜市面上以军队视角重点描写这一时间段的作品没怎么玩到过。

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Weapons free in the chemical plant results in instant game over.

If the game had a pause feature to send commands id probably had kept this game but its too much micromanagement for me without it

Awesome little game. It's the only thing to scratch the same itch as Strain Tactics, an incredible tactical shooter with a similar premise from five years earlier. While Strain Tactics is a more varied, polished, and overall a larger game, Chromosome Evil is a very worthy low-budget companion to it, it makes perfect sense they're bundled for sale here on Steam. I will be honest; if this game looks interesting to you, I have to recommend Strain first - it's a similar concept with a larger feature-set, including a rich morale system, more NPC activity, and more features overall. I mean no insult to Chromosome Evil, I suspect they'd agree, but you should absolutely play both games. If you're short on money, Strain will give you more for your coin - if you're just eager to play this kind of rich tactical horror and you have the patience for a series without burning out, though, get all four games and play Strain last as the finale =) In short, Chromosome Evil is a really horrible road-trip across a ruined country. Each run you attempt will begin simple, with parasitically infested zombies slowly harrassing your scavenging runs - but you'll soon unlock research and development, improve your troops' equipment while making difficult choices between approaches, priorities and investments, and end up fighting much worse things in increasingly tactically challenging and rewarding ways. Be warned, it is a real-time tactics game, and it does have an active pause system [b]but you need to progress some distance into the game and make a major investment of rare resources to unlock it[/b]. Until you do so, you'll be in a harsh realtime tactical challenge, multitasking 2-3 soldiers in combat as they try to provide mutual cover while looting, interacting with computers, repairing objectives and so on. I believe the sequel gives you the pause system from the start without restriction, so if you're easily overwhelmed by realtime multitasking, you might want to jump straight to the second game. Ultimately it's a little janky, it can seem a little simple, and it isn't entirely free of bugs - pathfinding and weapon-swapping can be really rough and require a lot of extra clicks - but I've had a really good ~11 hours with it so far and I'm not bored with it at all. I'm enjoying the slow reveal of the plot, the unique missions at milestones, and the way familiar locations can be more varied than expected when scavenging similar locations during your journey. It's worth the price and your time, please give it a try =) Oh, on that note I think CE2 has a demo which is fairly representative of how CE1 plays, just a little more advanced and smoother, so try that and see if you want to step back to the first game or jump right in to the sequel. Enjoy, and thanks for the good times, 16 BIT NIGHTS.

I only recommended this game only if you bought it on discount the concept is really awesome, but the execution is just plain bad the difficulty is WTF, the change between ez, norm and hard is barely visible the biggest problem is that in later stage of the game, the hoard became impossible to manage u have to save and reload until you got perfect start of the first 5 day for the later campaign to feels right, otherwise it felt forceful and unfair, usually this kind of game (that was done well) will able you to compensate the early mistake by doing micros in-game, but this one is just about having everything done right in the first place. If you did something wrong, you are probably cooked. Still, the core idea is awesome