Paradox Interactive and developer Iceflake Studios have announced as part of today’s Nintendo Direct Mini that Surviving the Aftermath is coming Nintendo Switch (alongside all the other platforms you'd expect) when it leaves Early Access and officially launches in Spring 2021.
The strategy game puts you in a post-apocalyptic future (really, at this point is there any other kind?) and tasks you with building a colony to avert disaster and restore civilisation to its former glory. Obviously, resources are limited what with the devastation and such, so you'll have to grab every opportunity that presents itself in order to survive the..., well, the aftermath.
While the timing of this game might not be great for an audience looking for some escapism, the trailer (above) looks promising for sim and strategy fans, and there's certainly plenty to keep you occupied in-game, as you can see from this list of key features highlighted in the official blurb:
No Place Like Home - Build and manage a colony of survivors after a world-ending event. Construct more than 61 unique buildings to handle everything from resource collection and farming to exploration and security.
Surviving Earth - Explore a vast procedurally generated world featuring six different biomes filled with resources, wildlife, rival societies and more. Each environment has different conditions that affect your colony’s survival. Stay vigilant: Natural disasters, dangerous animals, and bandits will put your survivors to the test.
Survival is my Specialty - Recruit over 80 unique Specialists, each with their own skills and motivations, to manage your colony’s resources and production. Send them beyond the Gate on scientific missions, scavenger runs, and to fight bandits.
Expect the Unexpected - Life in the aftermath requires you to make moral choices. 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.
Reputation Management - Every decision can have dire consequences on your colony’s survival. Your reputation with other societies will affect your ability to trade and can even affect your relationship with their leaders. Colonists have a mind of their own and will react to your choices.
Defend the Gate - Fortify your gates and protect your colony from rampaging animals and deadly bandits. Enemies who breach the gate will pour into your colony, wreaking havoc on everything in their wake. Take command of your specialists and drive the invaders back.
Surviving The Aftermath will launch on an as-yet-unspecified date in the spring and it'll set you back $29.99 USD / £26.99 GBP / €29.99 EUR.
Played this in Early Access elsewhere? Let us know below if you've got the fortitude to face the aftermath, and survive it, below.
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This one caught my attention, i am a sucker for a colony builder
Interesting!
This came as a nice surprise while watching the Direct Mini. I had never heard of that game and I'm going to check it out. Been playing Borderlands — a totally different genre I know ! — lately and I really love that kind of universe.
Where's that gangster one they are doing? Isnt that coming out soon?
@smithpa01 I am too. Numerous times I've nearly bought this on PC, but I've never gotten around to it.
It’s Paradox - this is bound to be at least interesting, and possibly outright brilliant. Probably not many developers I’d trust more when it comes to strategy games. I’ll wait for a review, but this is one to keep an eye on.
@Jester151 Empire of Sin, December. Pre-orders are live on eshop. Looks sooooo good and fun!
I have this on Xbox early access it's evolved a lot whilst I've had it.
I like it a lot. It obviously shares DNA with surviving Mars.
May pick it up again on switch if it reviews well
As long as there are no zombie, I’m in.
Awesome. I kid you not, for years I've dreamed of a Fallout meets Tropico style game where you build and manage a post-apocalyptic community. And here it is, finally.
Just read some early access reviews on Steam and ouch... looks like the game doesn't really deliver. Let's hope the devs can work everything out until it's released because that trailer looks very promising.
Looks like one of those mobile survival games you have to watch the video for to get more gos on free to play games
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