Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
Rating: 90.0
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Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

Released: Jun 1, 2013
Genres:
Base Building Engineering Grid-Based Open World Roguelike / Roguelite Role-playing (RPG) Sandbox Squad Management Survival Turn-based
Themes:
4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) Crafting & Gathering Horror Indie Post-apocalyptic Science fiction Zombie
Perspectives:
Bird view / Isometric Text
Game Modes:
Single player
Description from Steam STEAM

An apocalyptic cataclysm has happened… more precisely, all of them did, all at once. Within the last few years, riots and wars shook the Earth, devastating its population, and finally, the grid has completely collapsed. As if that weren't enough, there are zombies?! Evil mushrooms!? Giant hornets?! You'll need to make the best of things and figure out a way to survive. In this expansive survival RPG, you'll have to find or craft tools, kill monsters, gather allies, build your home base, grow crops, and survive a world that grows ever harsher around you. Find a working vehicle and use that to explore the wasteland of New England! Who was the mysterious 'XEDRA' that left artifacts around the dying world, and how are they connected to the cataclysm? Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is the epitome of a modern roguelike: with turn-based play and a RPG-like skill progression system, it hearkens back to the classics of the genre while building on them in unexpected ways. The depth of this game will surprise you, with a cleverly-designed inventory system, the ability to drive vehicles on land or water, well-written NPCs with their individual stories, and more. The scope of Cataclysm is unparalleled in the genre, thanks to a dedicated community that works to create this game collaboratively, as we have for over ten years. Complex and diverse enemies from ever-mutating legions of the undead, to giant insects, to existential horrors from between worlds. Unparalleled vehicle building and customization system. Immersive, exquisitely detailed crafting system covering everything from smithing and soldering to keeping your sourdough starter fed. Build almost anything you can imagine, from a wattle-and-daub shelter in the woods to a tower of reinforced concrete and living alien resin. Populate your base with NPC allies that help you craft and keep you company. Explore one of the most detailed and immersive skill and proficiency systems in any RPG. Ever expanding content, with new major updates released regularly. Challenging, rewarding game balance that forces you to evaluate every step, or pay the price. You'll soon see why most of the world's population is dead! …want to feel like you might actually be able to survive against an incredibly harsh and unforgiving apocalypse. …have ever wandered through a hardware store thinking 'This would be a great place to hole up when the zombies come.' …love survival RPGs but get frustrated when you can't hotwire one of the nearby broken-down cars, weld a makeshift ram to the front, and plow it through the gates of the next story-important area. …enjoy detailed simulation-style games, but also want to mutate into a bizarre cat-girl slime mold creature with a cybernetic gun arm in one. What do you get for purchasing the Steam Edition of CDDA? Steam cloud support for save games. Graphical achievements. A chance to help the CleverRaven team in supporting one of our long-term developers, working on one of the best open-source games on the internet. More planned… check back soon!

Description from IGDB IGDB

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (aka Cataclysm DDA or CataDDA) is an open source survival horror roguelike set in a post-apocalyptic and fictional New England. Unlike most roguelikes, it has no goal: the player is free to explore the procedurally generated map, clear areas of monsters, work with NPCs, and build shelters and vehicles. The gameplay is mainly based on day-to-day survival, and the game tracks parameters like hunger, thirst, morale, illness and temperature which the player must manage to stay alive. Like most roguelikes Cataclysm: DDA follows turn based gameplay. The world has support for seasons and dynamic weather conditions and the season lengths can be modified during world generation. A typical world has cities, towns, rivers, forests, bridges and other landmarks. Cities and towns generally have all the common establishments generally found in real world such as houses, departmental stores, malls, parking lots, swimming pools, hospitals, malls, etc. Exotic locations such as Science Labs, Military installations, missile silos can be found in remote places throughout the whole world. Latest versions have support for experimental 3-D buildings.

Storyline IGDB

You emerge from the shelter into the dim light of an overcast day, and look around for the first time since the disaster. The world as you knew it is gone and in its place, a twisted mockery of all that was once familiar. Everything was cast aside in that frantic race for the shelter. You have no food, nothing to drink, no weapons. Nothing but your ingenuity and the fierce determination to survive against appalling odds. A grim prospect faces you. Perhaps worse even than the nightmares of last night, when you were tortured by dreams of the dead themselves rising to jealously tear life from the living. You cast your eyes up the road and begin to walk towards a house in the far distance. Things may be bad right now, but you've got a sinking feeling that there are darker days ahead.

Basic Info
Release Date: June 1, 2013
IGDB Rating: 90.0/100 (21)
Rating Count: 21
IGDB ID: 18730
Additional Information
IGDB Rating: 90.0/100 (21 votes)
Release Date: June 1, 2013
IGDB ID: 18730
Платформы 4
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Genres 10
Base Building Engineering Grid-Based Open World Roguelike / Roguelite Role-playing (RPG) Sandbox Squad Management Survival Turn-based
Themes 7
4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) Crafting & Gathering Horror Indie Post-apocalyptic Science fiction Zombie
Player Perspectives 2
Bird view / Isometric Text
Game Modes 1
Single player
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