Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (2013)

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3.90 from 20 ratings

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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 … Read more
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. Read less
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Release dates

  • Jun 01, 2013 (Worldwide) Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows)
  • Dec 31, 2013 (North_America) Web Browser
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jptrzy

Review jptrzy 4/5 · Mar 23, 2024

Too much choice could be fun

Too much choice makes this game great and bad game in the same moment.

Lets just say that the barrier of entry is so big and vast that most people wouldn't even try to thing about overcoming it.

The only reason for it is that there is so much possibilities for you in this "rouglike" that learning even how to …

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Too much choice makes this game great and bad game in the same moment.

Lets just say that the barrier of entry is so big and vast that most people wouldn't even try to thing about overcoming it.

The only reason for it is that there is so much possibilities for you in this "rouglike" that learning even how to move could become overwhelming.

It is quite sad that many people won't experience this masterpiece.

It would be great to make a steam release like Dwarf Fortress has done. Creating user-friendly GUI and giving creators source of income.

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