Post-Apocalyptic strategy simulation Surviving The Aftermath focuses on rebuilding the world after a nuclear fallout. Combining traditional city-building simulation features with some unique customization options, it provides players with a new way to create communities. Surviving The Aftermath allows you to adapt to the challengeℱs you face as you tr♔y to survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Choices To Make
I could tell that Paradox's new title was every bit as unique as its predecessor, Surviving Mars, whenꦉ I hit the very 🐓first menu and found a setup menu that is both simple and incredibly flexible.
There ♏are six different elements of the game that can be customized. These include the environment, challenge, gatekeeper, as well as catastrophes, resources, and survivors. Each one has three different levels that can all be individually set.
This means that rather than just setting the difficulty level of the game, you can🍌 choose different levels for each main feature, something I cannot recall seeing done so inꩲ-depth before.
Facing Challenges
Your choices will affect the gameplay experience in a meaningful way, making it feel like a different cha🥀llenge with each setting change. A harsher environment will require more work to gather resources, while more frequent catastrophes willꦇ require better planning. The number of resources and survivors you begin with also affects settlement growth early on.
The challenge system is another nice feature, as it offers pop up challenges that require you to make decisions that can have both negative and positive impacts on your co💃mmunity. They appear at random and offer opportunities for survivors to use their initiative to try and benefit the colony. Results appear to be rando💛m but having specific resources on hand can increase the odds of success, which feels very rewarding.
Rebuilding Civilization
The game offers some great attention to detail, with buildings feeling very at home in the environment. Each one looks exactly how you'd imagine buildings fashioned with scavaged materials to appear. Even upgraded structures still fit perfectly into the world, keeping th🐟e game feeling atmospheric and engaging.
Your building placement is restricted by the expected features of the wasteland initially, with toxic waste puddles needing to be built around until you can acquire the knowledge to neutralize them. This means that building up your colony feels more accurate. The haphazard layout you'll need෴ to adopt forces you to think about the most efficient way to place your buildings around the natural restrictions.
Avoiding Disaster
As you begin to rebuild, you'll also have to face catastrophes. You get a couple of ཧgame days advance warning on the lowest difficulty setting, which helps you get used to the game.
Different catastrophes will require different ways to plan and as you progress, you 🌳can take steps to better mitigate their effects, such as protecting your crops from radiation.
The disasters felt like very real threats to my fragile com🍎munity, even on low settings, which helped keep tꦛhe game engaging. It was especially nerve-wracking when patient zero of a pandemic was my only medic. Those were dark days.
Surviving And Thriving
As the game progresses, your goal is simply to begin to thrive, rather than just surviving. The addition of catastrophes and challenges, as well as unexpected viꩵsitors at your gate who don't all have good intentions, helps keep 🔴the game fresh.
I started a few different game🌸s and, even tho💜ugh I used the same settings, each one still felt unique, thanks to the randomly generated maps and unpredictability of visitors, disasters, and challenges.
Surviving The Aftermath offers a flexible, customizable and immersive experience with a simple, easy-to-understand interface thst will feel familiar to anyone who plays simulation games. I can't wait to play 🔯more and see what else it has to offer.