I also feel this way about the disasters that occur. Even though some of my choices turned out badly I never really felt punished by the results, perhaps on the hardest settings these would have a bigger impact but on the middling difficulty, they might as well not bother. This is usually in the form of making a choice of whether to invest some resources into a request to see if it pays off. Throughout your game, you’ll be faced with seemingly big decisions to make.
To make things even more interesting, science (the research currency) can only be obtained from the world map. There are so many options to choose from and everything is crucial making it actually quite stressful to decide what to research and in what order.
#Surviving the aftermath day one edition upgrade#
Every single upgrade is useful and nothing feels like filler. The game also has a very extensive tech tree that allows you to unlock new buildings and upgrades which will be vital to your success. This feature adds a nice contrast to the main city building and breaks things up a lot. They are also vital for defending your own colony if you get attacked. These guys can roam the world, they can gather resources, fight bandits and make contact with other settlements to name just a few uses.
To explore you need to hire specialists who can either be fighters, scavengers, scientists and more. In addition to the main city building experience, you are able to explore the world at large. You’ll also need to think seriously about your production chains to ensure they are robust enough, prepare badly and you’ll soon be running out of vital resources and your colonists will leave.Ĭredit: Paradox Interactive / Iceflake Studios For example, you don’t want to build your housing all over your limited fertile land. There are loads of buildings to use, upgrade and unlock and you’ll need to take the time to plan out where you want things.
#Surviving the aftermath day one edition plus#
The first survival city builder I ever played was Frostpunk which really sucked me into its desolate world but Surviving the Aftermath doesn’t quite deliver on this front.Īs you would expect, the main gameplay is centred around building up your colony and managing resources plus the occasional disaster and bandit raids. On the subject of atmosphere, this is one area the game falls down. The radio adds a bit of atmosphere but became repetitive very quickly. There is also a radio station that you can turn on or off plus cycle through a few stations. The sound is also fine but doesn’t stand out as being anything special.
Graphically everything looks fine, it’s nothing exceptional but is perfectly serviceable. I haven’t yet had the courage to play on the hardest settings. I found setting everything to easy made things far too easy for my liking so I’ve done most of my playing on a middling difficulty which has still posed a few challenges. You can choose from a low starting population, resources, fertile land and a high rate of disasters if you want a hardcore challenge or you could opt to make things much easier by choosing the opposite. There are also lots of options to choose from depending on how demanding you want your playthrough to be.
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