Let's start in order.
I played many strategies, from the first dune to civil, so I have minimal skills and understanding of strategies)
The game itself is presented in a zombie setting, which rarely works out well, but from the first mission it became clear that this The game is quite unusual and complex.
In order not to be too unfounded, I’ll start right away with the pros and cons.
+ - 1. Originality of missions (not all)
2.. Missions are difficult, not always predictable waves force you to be focused on the entire passage, carefully download skill lines, etc. (in the apocalypse there is generally fire)
3 Zombies, zombies, zombies, there are sooo many of them here and there will be even more. The name of the game speaks for itself.
4. many tools that you can use to improve/attack/defend your settlement.
5. Economics is easy at first glance, but difficult when studied in detail.
let's move on to the cons.
1- after missions 10-15, mission 2-3 comes with stupid defense, which seemed like outright hackwork.
2- although the developers tried to make dynamics during the passage of the hero, it will still be long and tedious if you go through it for the first time (I’m talking about missions only with the hero).
3. No wave balance. More precisely, it seems to be there in the first waves, which is felt in the initial 3-5, but then you can stupidly spam 1 soldier and survive at least the final wave.
Let me note for myself that the difficulty of Apocalypse is really such, many things there are very hardcore (pass or lowland).
Overall the game is very, very good, and if it’s about zombies, then it would be a shame not to add captcha for extra points