![]() When we finally saw the end of it, the colony welcomed a baby girl into this strange new world we found ourselves in. Scorched and dry, our water reserves dwindled. A few months later, we were hit by a blistering heatwave. After my first experience of a devastating pandemic that left a chunk of my population dying of thirst, I got paranoid and started dedicating a sizable patch of real estate to clean water storage. That’s not to say Aftermath’s rusty gears don’t occasionally churn out some procedural magic. It’s that same fug you’ll need to wade through to get to the interesting parts. But, like all celestial bodies plummeting to meet the earth, these fragments are eventually dulled, their fiery manes reduced to a grey-brown fug. A brilliant hue that mirrors the hints of brilliance in the game at large. Those comets are engulfed in a purple glow that gestures at a greater mystery behind the game’s otherwise rote post-apocalypse. READ MORE: ‘Battlefield 2042’ review: love cannot bloom on this battlefield.Surviving The Aftermath only manages it rarely, but there’s something undeniably vivid about watching a tiny comet land on a colonist’s head on their route back from berry picking, only to witness them stoically hoof it to the nearest medical tent for some ibuprofen and a belly rub. You may not be able to control everything in your colony, but how you respond to situations and emergent events will shape the character of your new civilization.It’s always enthralling when a colony management sim convinces you to feel empathy for the individual ant-sized workers milling back and forth between your buildings and resources. Expect the Unexpected: Life in the aftermath requires you to make moral choices.Send them beyond the Gate on scientific missions, scavenger runs, and to fight bandits. Survival is my Specialty: Recruit over 46 unique Specialists, each with their own skills and motivations, to manage your colony’s resources and production.Stay vigilant: Natural disasters will put your survivors to the test.Each environment has different conditions that will affect your colony’s survival. Surviving Earth: Explore a vast procedurally generated world featuring six different biomes filled with exploitable resources, bandits, and more.Don’t forget to construct the Gate to venture into the savage world beyond your colony. Construct more than 50 unique buildings to handle everything from resource collection and farming to exploration and security. Build and manage a colony of survivors after a world-ending event.Whether it is an invisible guardian, or just pure fate, but it sure feels like someone is watching over us. Life is unfair, but sometimes it feels like you are not alone. There are also other societies in the world that won't hesitate to strike back if you look at them the wrong way. These survivors will face challenges both large and small some caused by bandits, others because of their own actions. You can trust them with your life and they trust you with theirs. They are far from perfect but have made it this far. The people around you are the thin line which separates life from death. It has been a long road to get here, but what was before can be left in the past. People need hope, and finally there is some. Eventually it is not enough to just survive through the day. Once lush areas turned to dry, irradiated dust bowls that now cover the land.Įveryone has their breaking point. Nature's delicate cycle was broken as the bombardment of different catastrophes never stopped. Cities were destroyed and the planet itself suffered permanent damage.ĭestruction of unimaginable scale can be seen throughout the entire planet. ![]() Slowly but surely modern civilizations crumbled as catastrophes kept swooping across the continents. In the wake of the events, resulting extreme weather conditions and other calamities became a normal part of everyday life. Those who are left must now survive the aftermath in this post-apocalyptic world. A chain reaction of global catastrophes wiped out most of the planet’s population and made people turn against each other. There are only few who remember the spark that started it all. Surviving the Aftermath is a strategy game following the example set by Surviving Mars, this time asking players to survive in the brutal reality of a post-nuclear world. Graphics: Nvidia®GeForce™GTX 760 or AMD®Radeon™R9 380.Graphics: Nvidia®GeForce™GTX 580 or AMD®Radeon™HD 7870.
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