Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
Released May 2015
Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.
86% positive · 2,051 reviews
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Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
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Steam $14.99
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Evaluation
Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville launched on May 29, 2015 and received steady post-launch updates through 2022. The developer shipped feature patches and bug fixes across several years, with the last substantive update (version 1.6.43, a small Windows-only bug fix) arriving on July 31, 2022. The following day, August 1, 2022, the developer (Sarah Northway) posted a personal "dev plays her own game" video, noting it had "been years" since she made the game and almost as long since she simply played it for fun — a reflective tone that signals the game's active development period has concluded rather than anything new being planned. There are no unreleased DLC entries on the store, no roadmap, and no developer statements promising future content. The store description highlights a "Deluxe Survivalist Edition" as a content bundle (including predecessor games and bonus items), but there is no indication of planned expansions or updates beyond what has already shipped. The game launched as a complete product and received years of post-launch patches, all of which appear to have concluded by mid-2022. No content has shipped or been announced since that point, and the last developer communication itself had a retrospective, wrap-up character.
Evidence
Developer Sarah Northway posts a 'dev plays her own game' video, noting it has been years since she made the game and almost as long since she played it for fun — a retrospective tone signaling the game's development chapter is closed rather than active.
Version 1.6.43 released — a small Windows-only bug fix patch. This is the last content update shipped for the game.
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Developer
Publisher
Northway Games
Achievements
42
Platform
Windows, macOS
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Verified
Players
Single-player
About this game
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.
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
Last evaluated Jun 28, 2026
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