Parents' Guide to Last Fortress: Underground

Surviving a zombie pandemic is nothing new in mobile games, and neither is building and upgrading an ever expanding colony. But while Lost Fortress: Underground might not be doing anything wholly original, what it does, it does well and with style. Everything from the characters' smooth animations to the voice acting and cutscenes to the tiniest details of each room in your base is surprisingly polished. Your fortress feels alive and in constant motion, sort of like a post-apocalyptic ant farm.

Lost Fortress: Underground gives players plenty to do, which is both a good thing and a bad one. On the plus side, it feels like there's always something to do every time you log into the game, be it collecting resources, crafting items or meals, expanding or upgrading rooms in your fortress, or exploring the outside world and battling against zombies or other outposts, and so on and so on. There are plenty of options. Unfortunately, this also means that trying to keep everything balanced is a Herculean task that only gets more difficult as you progress in the game. The more you progress and the bigger your base gets, the more difficult it is to keep everyone busy, happy, and alive. What starts off as a sort of peaceful Zen garden mentality can break down into a micromanagement nightmare late in the game as you try to be everywhere and do everything at once.