The Walking Dead: Empires is a survival MMO game set in the thrilling and dangerous world of AMC’s The Walking Dead. Players can download and play the game for free on PC or Mac through Gala Games, then take on walkers and hostile survivors alike in an open-world strategic challenge for survival.
If you haven’t played The Walking Dead: Empires yet, follow this simple guide from the development team. It will take you through essentials like crafting, shelter, leveling and food gathering, as well as the added advantages of NFT item ownership.
To fully experience The Walking Dead: Empires, follow these key steps:
1. Hero Selection
Once you’ve installed the game, choose a hero. You’ll find beloved characters from the show, along with some new game-exclusive heroes you haven’t met yet! The variety of characters’ weapons and skill sets provides for unique gameplay experiences with every character you have available.
2. Early Game
Start your journey in an apocalyptic world crawling with walkers and all sorts of other dangers. Your primary objective is to gather materials, then use them for crafting to survive the challenges and enemies you encounter.
Tool and Weapon Crafting: Use the materials you’ve gathered to create tools and weapons. Crafting enhances your hero’s abilities and opens up a progression to higher-quality items. This is crucial for facing the increasingly difficult threats of the wasteland.
Shelter Construction: Collect resources like wood and metal to build and upgrade your shelter. A higher-level HQ offers stronger defenses, additional crafting stations, and improved facilities that provide key advantages.
Build HQ
Food Gathering and Preparations: Search and hunt for food to keep your hero in good condition. As you improve your culinary skills, you can craft meals that boost your hero’s recovery, which is vital for surviving tough battles.
NFTs: Owning and activating NFTs offers significant advantages that can enhance your gameplay experience. Player-owned items may include unique heroes, advanced crafting stations that allow you to create higher-quality tools, weapons, and other items. However, it is important to note that players who do not own NFTs can still enjoy the same gameplay experience. The core gameplay experience—focused on survival, combat, and shelter building—is accessible and equal for all players.
3. Leveling Up and Masteries:
Hero leveling: As you complete missions or explore the world while eliminating walkers, your hero gains experience (XP). Once you have enough XP, your character will level up. With each level, new skills and upgrades are unlocked, increasing your combat effectiveness and survival capabilities. Each level-up comes with specific requirements or conditions:
Mission and Exploration: Actively participating in missions and exploring new areas is key to earning XP. The more you engage in these activities, the faster you will level up.
Elimination of Walkers: Defeating enemies is also an important source of XP. Each enemy defeated contributes to your progress toward the next level.
Resource Gathering: While not directly related to leveling up, resource gathering is essential for keeping your character in good condition, allowing you to continue facing missions and battles.
HQ leveling: Upgrading your HQ is essential, as it directly affects your survival capabilities and shelter efficiency. A higher-level HQ unlocks more advanced interior structures, crafting stations, and stronger defensive structures, giving you a significant advantage against walkers. To level up your HQ, you need to collect specific resources such as wood and other valuable materials. The amount and type of resources required will increase with each upgrade level.
A higher-level HQ also improves the defense of your shelter, making your survival more sustainable. Additionally, as you progress in the game, walker herds become stronger and more numerous. A high-level HQ is crucial for withstanding attacks from these herds, protecting your hero and defending your resources.
Masteries: Specializations in different skill disciplines are known as masteries. By mastering a particular skill, you can craft high quality weapons, tools, and equipment that provide an edge in combat, exploration and defense. For example, tool crafting mastery can be leveled up by simply crafting more tools.
4. Gameplay Choices: Cooperative or Solo
The Walking Dead: Empires allows you to decide how to face this horrific new world. While you can choose to play solo, relying on your own skills alone to survive, there comes a point in the game where joining an alliance becomes almost essential. As you level up your HQ to higher levels, the herds of enemies attacking your base will become increasingly challenging, defending it alone nearly impossible. Working with other players in an alliance lets you share resources, overcome tough challenges, and effectively protect your base. This cooperative approach is key to surviving and thriving in the world of The Walking Dead.
Screenshots from game
Inventory: The snapshot shows the moment when the player collects supplies from an abandoned military truck and stores them in their inventory.Combat 1 and 2: Combat between the players and herds of walkers.Police station interior: Player inside the building in combat against mid-level enemies.Collect resources: Player using a crafted weapon to cut down a tree and collect wood.
Happy Monday, builders! Who’s ready for an exciting new Common Ground World competition?
This week’s competition begins at 10am PT tomorrow, Tuesday September 10th and ends on Friday, September 13th. Yep, that means you’ve got three days to build the best possible town with the meta details listed below and get the highest leaderboard spot you can reach! Finish high enough and you’ll be in the winnings for some $GALA!!
If you’ve never played Common Ground World before, don’t fret! There’s nothing to be lost and competition is fun even for first timers. But there are two other gameplay modes to enjoy: Common Ground and Casual mode.
Join us this Friday for a new live Common Ground World Town Hall event on Gala Games’ Youtube channel. If you haven’t watched the last episode yet from August 30th, check out the replay now.
Town Halls are a fantastic way to stay informed about the latest goings on around town!
This Week’s Competition🍄
Time to dig deep and fungify your farms! Harvest mushrooms and bake up some delicious Mushroom Pizza to get a pizza the action! 🍕🍄
Fungi Feast
Goal: Sell Mushroom Pizza Trade Time: 20s and 1 Gasoline Biome: Plains S Edges: Ocean N, River E, Plains S, Plains W
New Mushroom-related Crops/Crafts
Mushroom Farm
Specializes in cultivating mushrooms that flourish in low light, growing faster in the shade.
This Rare NFT delivers 1 passive Mushroom to nearby tiles, making it a must-have for any serious chef! Boost your Mushroom Pizza production or prep for the Risotto recipe update coming mid-October. Keep your farm thriving with fresh fungi!
“Stand” NFTs like this one are essentially a magical source of their specialty resource, saving the player valuable time and energy when properly placed on the playing field.
We hope y’all enjoy this week’s competition! Make sure you tune into Friday morning’s Town Hall for all the latest news and updates from Common Ground World!
This amazing Hot Gala Summer is finally almost coming to a close, but the action doesn’t stop with Gala Music. As the PINK PA$$ rollout continues, you’ll see in-person events popping up across the US and around the world. At Gala Music, we love to travel and we go where the beat takes us!
Today we’re announcing our next Gala Music PINK PA$$ “OASIS” event, this time at LA’s Delphi Hotel. 😎🌴 Join us for a night of fun, food, live music and other surprises, hosted by the legendary Macy Gray!
$MUSIC OASIS: Delphi Edition
Location: Delphi Hotel lobby bar – 550 Flower St. Los Angeles Time: Tuesday, September 17 – 7-11pm PT
Entry Requirements:
Hold any PINK PA$$*
Hold at least 1400 $MUSIC**
First come, first served (space is limited)
Must be 21 to enter
*1st edition PINK PA$$ includes a plus 1.
**Be prepared to show proof of $MUSIC holding at the door.
Claiming Your PINK PA$$
If you didn’t pick one up with the first edition, get a Hot Gala Summer PINK PA$$ now for a limited in either of the following ways:
We’re bringing some star power to this $MUSIC OASIS event, along with a couple limited supply opportunities for special VIP seating:
Get a Seat with Death Row Records – $250
Take a seat at the Death Row Table and hang out with Death Row Records execs and artists in this exclusive VIP package that includes a DRR/Gala Music gift bag and other exciting surprises from the iconic label.
Settle in at the Macy Gray Table for a once-in-a-lifetime experience alongside our amazing host, Macy Gray, including a special gift bag and other surprises.
Both VIP seating packages are available now in the All Access store, but only while they last.
Kick Back at the $MUSIC OASIS
If you’re in the Los Angeles area next Saturday night, don’t miss this extraordinary event. You never know what might happen or who might appear at the $MUSIC OASIS, powered by Gala Music and the PINK PA$$.
Why not get away and catch some rays this September? We’re going to work on our tan… but not at the beach!
No, this time we’re headed for adventure! Pack your bedroll and plenty of water, because you’re heading to where summer lingers long and is as hot as it comes – the desert!
VOX Land Rebate Sale
This beautiful slice of dunefront property could easily be yours in our rare land sale starting today! This sale won’t leave you high and dry though – you’ll get the full value of what you spend back in $GALA!
Buy a Rare Desert Land for $100, get $100 bucks of $GALA back. Buy two Rare Desert Lands, get $200 bucks of $GALA back. You get the idea, right?
Stock up on your sand and cacti supply before the launch of our game while also stocking up on some extra $GALA!
Remember, all land can be combined into better plots following a future update in Project Cerberus. If you end up with three Rare Deserts you can slap them together into one Epic Desert!
This sale just started, but who knows how long it will continue! Bolts McWhiffles seems to have taken full control over the VOX Store… and who could possibly guess what that squirrel is thinking!? Better get them before she gets distracted by crafting new upgraded nuts or something.
Prepare for the VOX to Be Unleashed!
Project Cerberus is chomping its way through some of the last critical steps before it’s ready to grow into its v2 form. We couldn’t stop it if we wanted at this point… how do you stop a dog with three heads!?!
It’s coming one way or the other. Have you hopped into Project Cerberus and actually put your VOX to work?
Well, you’ll be a lot more ready for what’s coming next if you get yourself some nice prime real estate next to that tumbleweed over there! Come on… this sale won’t last long!
The Gala Games tApp ecosystem of games is growing all the time, and the web3 world has made one thing clear– they love tapping into rewards!
We’re thrilled to announce that more than 3 million users are now playing our tapper games, and we’re excited to welcome millions more in the future!
Over last weekend, we launched our 4th Telegram mini app tap-for-rewards game with GALACoin, a new game geared especially toward acquisition of new accounts to the Gala ecosystem. The new game is set apart by its simple referral style reward mechanics. Players receive $GALA when their referred users create Gala accounts, then more $GALA when those users verify their accounts by making a purchase of at least $1 from Gala.
Other than GALACoin alone (which rewards players only in $GALA), each of our tapper games gives players opportunities to collect $TREZ, the upcoming official token of the Gala tApp ecosystem.
An outline of the $TREZ plans was recently released with the $TREZ Litepaper, describing an ongoing system of rewards with both seasonal and daily distribution of $TREZ once the token is initially created in the near future.
With each seasonal distribution, players will receive an amount of $TREZ proportional to their gameplay activity across participating titles. At the time of publication, these titles include Treasure Tapper, Music Coin and Dogs for the Founder.
In addition to the $TREZ rewards determined by gameplay, players can also collect $GALA from each game’s referral reward pool while supply lasts, further enhancing their gameplay rewards.
We’re incredibly excited about the upcoming launch of $TREZ, leveling up the user base of our rapidly growing GalaChain ecosystem. We are as committed as ever to the empowerment of users and developers with the benefit of web3 tech.
Strategy Advice
We understand that you only have so many fingers and devices, so you can’t possibly play all the tapper games at once. But there are plenty of ways to maximize your passive rewards in each game.
Complete your tasks – These games are all about bringing new attention to our ecosystem, tapping into the nearly 1 billion Telegram users in the world. Check into each game’s instant reward tasks for quick and easy accumulation of coinage.
Upgrade your Quests – While they may start small, your upgradeable Quests are the best possible way to collect rewards even when you’re not tapping. We suggest using your collected coins to upgrade your passive in-game profit per hour. Then every time you launch the app you’ll have new juicy rewards waiting for you!
Challenge your friends – Be on the lookout for ways to play with your friends and get more rewards. With gameplay modes like Challenge and Steal, there’s always a little something extra!
Share on social media – Help us spread the word and be sure to use your in-game referral link when you do! Even people who aren’t tapping yet like rewards!
We’re so excited for the 3 million user milestone, even before a $TREZ Season 1 date has been announced! Keep an eye on the official Gala announcement channels and keep your fingers tapping that phone!
