Catastrophic WorldĪs time passes you will encounter events that present you with a choice, sometimes with a moral component hitched to them. It is a nice thematic twist to the genre and the management game-play is executed well. Managing resources and planning city development feels much more engaging when you’re battling the post-apocalypse and vying to survive rather than turn profits or win elections as in similar titles. It is very much a city builder with a survival overlay, and it works in the game’s favor quite well. It is less about the individual colonist and more about the colony as a whole. If you have played other colony simulations such as Rimworld or Oxygen Not Included, you will find that Surviving The Aftermath is much less personable. How do you expect survivors to chop down trees without tools? By punching them? That’s just silly! Catastrophes such as toxic fallout can throw a wrench into your well oiled apocalyptic machine. Making sure they have tools so they don’t get a productivity penalty, and ensuring they have clothes to help protect against ailments. You build the structures, the housing, and the roads to help your survivors move and act more effectively. You oversee the bigger picture, what resources survivors should scavenge and what materials they should refine. Furthermore, Your colony can quickly grow to high numbers which make such micromanagement impossible in any case. While you select how many workers a structure should use, you don’t really micromanage the individual colonists themselves. However, these are by and large meaningless. Some will have bonuses such as faster production or similar penalties. Managing resources and what to do with them is one of the major gameplay loops.Įach survivor is fully simulated with needs and even a bit of personality. Materials can be used to build more structures or manufactured into advanced resources such as tools and clothing. You can set work areas on the basic ones such as berries, concrete, and woodpiles for your haulers to gather.Īdvanced resources such as metal and plastics require structures like a recycler and a worker assigned to it to gather and refine the material into something usable.
Scattered across the map are several types of resources. It’s hard enough to get in the mood at the end of days without one-eyed Ed sleeping in a cot three feet away! Packing folks in tenements is efficient but makes your survivors less likely to have children. They might start with meager tents, but you can unlock and build larger sturdier dwellings later in the game.
You need to provide homes, food, water, and healthcare for your colonists. Colony ManagementĪll of the expected survival aspects are present. It truly shines when compared to a set of dull sliders you might find in the options menu found in other games. Not only is the customization a welcome feature, but the options are also presented to the player in a way that feels very organic and thematic. I always praise games for including difficulty settings, but few go the extra mile that Surviving The Aftermath traversed. You get to make several in-universe decisions that affect the difficulty. You can tailor the experience down to every detail of how you desire it to be. It is a profoundly deep and customizable difficulty option that completely trounces the common choices of easy, normal, and hard.
You can choose how often catastrophes occur, how many survivors you start with, the scarcity of resources, and much more. You are greeted with several storytelling-themed choices that dictate the difficulty of the game. When you first begin Surviving The Aftermath. To succeed, you need to manage all these factors while combating catastrophes that will periodically fall upon your struggling survivors. Specialists have different skills they use to traverse the world, fight bandits and scavenge resources for your colony. Your humble colony starts small but can grow quickly. You will eventually burn up nearby resources and will need to rely on specialists to venture outside the safety of your colony’s gates. Colonists need food and water to sustain themselves, yet clothing and tools are also important. This will require you to build and plan your colony’s layout and what to prioritize. You will need to manage many different resources and make tough decisions to ensure your colony survives. You manage a colony of colonists struggling to survive in the wake of a worldwide disaster. Surviving The Aftermath is a colony management and simulation game that takes place in a post-apocalyptic world. Purchasing Surviving The Aftermath through this Creator Store link directly supports Gideon’s Gaming. Joseph Pugh conducted this early access look on a standard Xbox One console. It is currently in early access on the Epic Games Store and Xbox Game Preview. Surviving The Aftermath is a colony management game developed by Ice Flake Studios.
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