They Are Billions

2018. We defended colonies against 530 viewers in our time with They Are Billions—Numantian Games' steampunk zombie RTS that made us build Victorian-era walls against endless waves. The game had no pause. One zombie breach cascaded into total colony collapse. Final waves could reach billions of infected, and every restart was a lesson in paranoia. The house documented countless wipes, teaching the chat that in They Are Billions, pause wasn't optional—it was never happening. We balanced economy with military in real-time, watched viewers scream as we made silly placement mistakes, and kept coming back. Thirty-two hours of managing anxiety, basically. It was 2018 when tower defense met RTS met roguelike permadeath, and StreamerHouse captured the brutal beauty of a game that didn't care about your mistakes.

Our 32.3 hours with They Are Billions in 2018 pulled nearly 10,900 hours watched and an average of 295 viewers per stream. That peak of 530 concurrent viewers shows how tense the house made those streams—people were locked in watching us almost destroy perfectly good colonies with one bad decision. The engagement was there because the stakes felt real.