Rabiez: Epidemic

About Rabiez: Epidemic

Rabiez: Epidemic is a single player strategy game with a science fiction theme. It was developed by Sekerin Productions and was released on March 4, 2016. It received negative reviews from players.

Real-time combat in the zombie apocalypse! Guide your survivors through hordes of the infected to escape the epicentre of infection!

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29%Audience ScoreBased on 94 reviews

atmosphere1 positive mentions

gameplay8 negative mentions

Simple and enjoyable zombie tactics gameplay emphasizing strategic positioning.
Survivor AI attempts to create organic and realistic unit behavior, adding tension.
Low system requirements and provides basic tactical real-time strategy experience suitable as a casual diversion.

Controls are unresponsive and clunky; units often ignore commands or pathfind poorly.
Visuals and audio are minimal and unclear, making it difficult to distinguish zombies from civilians and causing player confusion.
Lack of tutorial, poor game balance, repetitive gameplay, and many technical issues lead to frustration and low replayability.

gameplay
19 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
16% positive mentions, 42% neutral mentions, 42% negative mentions
The gameplay in rabiez: epidemic offers a blend of tactical, RTS, and arcade elements with an emphasis on organic survivor behavior, but is often criticized for confusing mechanics, poor visuals that make unit identification difficult, and frustrating controls. While some appreciate its unique take on the survival genre, many find the gameplay unplayable, boring, and marred by bugs and randomness. Overall, gameplay quality is divisive, with significant issues impacting player enjoyment.
- “The core gameplay revolves around commanding a small group of units from a top-down perspective as they move through urban and semi-urban environments overrun by zombies.”
- “One of Rabiez: Epidemic’s defining ambitions is its attempt to make survivor behavior feel organic rather than purely mechanical.”
- “The game provides an interesting take on the classic survival genre by combining tactical elements with arcade gameplay.”
- “It's surprisingly difficult to distinguish who's who during gameplay, which becomes frustrating fast, especially in situations where quick reactions are important.”
- “The gameplay idea is better than 'ai: rampage', but has more confusing and annoying gameplay and visuals are rather bad, making it hard to tell the difference between police, firefighter, civilian, zombie, and other entities.”
- “Confusing mechanics, bad gameplay, and just overall bad.”
story
12 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
25% positive mentions, 50% neutral mentions, 25% negative mentions
The game's story is minimal to nonexistent, with most users noting a lack of meaningful narrative beyond a basic zombie outbreak premise. Missions focus more on tactical replayability and challenge rather than plot development, leading to a repetitive and frustrating experience without clear motivation or storyline progression. Overall, the story aspect is widely criticized for its absence and lack of depth.
- “The survivor AI works well and each mission keeps the action moving.”
- “There is a clear emphasis on replayability through challenge rather than through unlocks or story developments.”
- “Storyline - immersive.”
- “I am not entirely sure that this game delivers a story or something - except the fact that there was a zombie outbreak at some point.”
- “No story or anything that explains what happened in the game, you're controlling a group of police/single police trying to fight zombies and watching out for NPCs involved in starting the plague.”
- “Story: 0/10”
graphics
12 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
25% positive mentions, 42% neutral mentions, 33% negative mentions
The graphics receive mixed reviews, ranging from descriptions of being detailed and polished to being ugly and poor. While some praise the custom engine's effort in visuals and animations, others find the graphics unremarkable or substandard, contributing to an overall negative impression.
- “The custom engine that powers AI: Rampage has been used to create Rabiez: Epidemic, and it shows in the polished and detailed graphics.”
- “The devs really spent endless hours perfecting the graphics in this game.”
- “The graphics themselves were decent and clearly some care had been put into the animations, with an interesting blend of RTS and tower defense type gameplay.”
- “Confusing, unplayable mess with terrible visuals and unclear mechanics.”
- “Visuals are ugly, audio is sad, controls are bad.”
- “There's a lot of things wrong with this game, from bad graphics, poor control scheme, but the worst parts are definitely the terrible AI.”
replayability
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
25% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 75% negative mentions
Replayability is limited, with some emphasis on challenge-based replay rather than unlocks or story progression; however, the lack of mods and overall enjoyment reduces players' motivation to replay.
- “There is a clear emphasis on replayability through challenge rather than through unlocks or story developments.”
- “No Steam Workshop, so no replayability.”
- “No replayability because it's not fun.”
- “Low replayability.”
atmosphere
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions
The atmosphere is minimalistic, with sound design providing only basic cues for combat and movement rather than creating an immersive or richly detailed environment.
music
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
0% positive mentions, 100% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions
The music is calming and soothing, helping players feel relaxed and reassured during gameplay.