Surviving the Aftermath on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.
Surviving the Aftermath is a strategy, simulation and city builder game
developed by Iceflake Studios
and published by Paradox Interactive.
Released on November 16th 2021 is available only on Windows
in 8 languages: English, French, German, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Spanish - Latin America.
It has received 4,321 reviews of which 3,052 were positive and 1,269 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.9 out of 10. 😐
The game is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows® 10 Home 64 bit
- Processor: Intel® iCore™ i5-2500K or AMD® AMD® FX 6350
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 580 or AMD® Radeon™ HD 7870
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 4 GB available space
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This review is more of a warning to those who want to purchase this game just because of the screenshots or gameplay description on this page. So, pros: 1. not bad music, visual component (although the same illustrations get wildly boring after a while) 2. interesting ideas that could potentially make this game a success Cons: 1. an awful lot of bugs at launch, this clearly hindered sales and eventually led to the game being abandoned by the devs, although most of the initial game-breaking bugs were fixed 2. balance problems: the developers added a lot of things to the game, but not all of them should be used at all or would be interesting to use because of outright failures in game design 3. almost complete lack of replayability, uninteresting late game except for achievement hunting 4. all DLC (except for New Alliances) are half-assed and rather hinder the game than vice versa. TLDR: if you are a professional player of city-building or economic management games and want to diversify your diet - you can buy it at a discount on sale (just don't take DLC). If you just want to play a post-apocalyptic city-building game - better look for better options.
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Good yet flawed. While the survival mechanics of Surviving the Aftermath aren't bad, the game is riddled with some annoying issues, mainly scripted events. You have four specialists and send two outside your colony to research information or scavenge stuff? The game will have monsters/animals attack your settlement en masse. Did you send two fighters (out of eight specialists) to get rid of bandit settlements in the vicinity? Oh, the game will initiate a huge bandit attack breaking through your main gate, resulting in the death of a specialist. Did you just run out of medicine kits? An outsider will come and ask for medicine in exchange for precious seeds. Did you manage to go through a fallout episode without a single casualty? The game will make meteors rain directly on your weakest building to kill at least one of them. And that's not counting the events that happen early in all playthroughs, like stupid colonists not knowing how to build a shelter. So you must fix it for them. Or sinkholes forming under a tent. So you need to build a makeshift ladder to rescue them using precious wood, but the next time a new sinkhole appears, your ladder is suddenly nowhere to be found. Or some event where you need to make a decision that affects happiness. I understand their usefulness for your couple of first playthroughs (they're warnings that you need to keep an eye out on resources, happiness, etc.), but they become annoying and highly repetitive after a while, and it's impossible to disable them, even in custom game mode. Speaking of happiness, your settlers will be happier living in dirty, wet tents knowing they have access to a library/movie theater/etc. than not being able to read books/watch movies while having a solid roof over their head. One would think people had better priorities than entertainment when surviving the post-apocalyptic world. I wish the settlement wouldn't always be in the center of the map, too. It would be cool to face specific catastrophes in specific areas, like more frequent snow storms in the north and more heat waves in the south. Some games are challenging because you have to choose between A and B, with both choices accompanied by rewards and consequences that can please and disappoint. Then, some games just want you to say, "Wow, this game is difficult." Surviving the Aftermath falls into the latter category. Despite its flaws, Surviving the Aftermath has several redeeming qualities. The game's buildings are visually interesting, and the outpost and research station mechanics are well-designed, and it looks really good. The concept of specialists is also a clever idea. It's just that the game's reliance on scripted events can detract from the overall experience. If you don't mind catastrophe management after catastrophe management, scripted and often repetitive events, love cool buildings and want a great-looking game (one that runs very well on what is now an entry-level game laptop, too), look no further. It looks great, runs great, and is very entertaining at times. And in this form, it's pretty adictive. If you want a postapocalyptic colony management game that rewards your intelligence and punishes your mistakes instead, you may want to give other titles a try before giving Surviving the Aftermath a go. Recommended.
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It's such a poorly thought out dumpster fire, but I can't say I didn't enjoy it, or won't in the future. It has it's charm. That being said, I'd say it's a prime example, of what selling your early access to Epic does for development. No forums, no communication with the fanbase, no direction. This game's such a mess of poor ideas baffling design choices, and just straight up insane balancing. It's also missing frickin basic functionality, like work overview. Thing all the silly mobile games have now even. UI's a mess, difficulty spikes are insane, DLC's don't work together at all. They're insane in their own right. The infamous Shattered Hope for example. While the side content is fairly decent, that the hope mechanic is just bad. I feel there's no other way to put it, it's just fkn dumb as all hell. Like, legit, imagine that, your entire colony's extatic, your life's perfect, yet they'll still enter "Anguish", and will literally TURN HOSTILE AND START DESTROYING YOUR TOWN, just because some arbitrary DLC introduced "Hope" meter is at 2/3rds. Also that's how mental issues work, yes. They can't get over anguish, they can't get better. U need to waste resources on trauma centers. How do you rise hope, so anguish doesn't happen then, I hear u ask? Well, u have to waste resources on "feasts". Yes, stuffing your fkn face is the only way to rise hope. Stuffing ur face with PLASTIC I might add, as feasts take next to no food, but over 130 plastic to pull. And in grand scheme of things, Hope does nothing. It's there to hinder you, and that's it. You can literally pay to make your game worse. You get like, 2 or 3 buildings, that are pretty useless, and don't tie to the hope system at all. Overdrive is useless, how does fkn moon dust tie to making hunters hunt better is beyond me too. You get what I mean? It's just a dumpster fire, a horrible frankensteins monster of terrible ideas. BUT, see BUT, it has its charm. Inside this freakish monstrocity is a game that CAN be enjoyed. I just really wish, they held their early access in a place that actually mattered, and received much, much more valuable feedback. By the time game hit steam, it was already too late. Devs abandoned it too, so there's that. To conclude, I dunno. Grab it if you want, It'll be on u. Reading reviews, pff, telling you what to buy. Make up your own mind. I told u how the game is, I'm not here to sell it. Also I had a colony of over 80 people, my economy crapped itself, over 50 people died, Hope and Happiness at all time high. Mostly due to removal of debuffs based on population. You see what I mean? It's such a terrifying little monster, but god, it has its charm. I played Endzone too, btw. Between the two? Grab Endzone, god it's so much better. Things Aftermath has over Endzone: world map, specialists, vehicles, and vehicle maintenance. That's it. In terms of post apocalyptic city building? Endzone's just king. It has it's faults, of course it does, but yeah. Nowhere near as many as Aftermath.
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It has been a while since I played this game, but after completing many other games now, looking back at my experience with this strategic colony simulator survival game, I actually liked it... Sure there are some very minor things that didn't make sense or weren't required to be in the game (whether in the base game or in the DLCs), but overall, I loved it. Whilst playing through my campaign, I almost died three times, this game is really punishing and it is fun. I once lost half of my colony to a disease because I did not have enough resources to maintain many hospitals at the time. And many times I ran out of water and my colony came very close to extinction. I loved the strong characters that can be sent out to salvage resources, fight enemies, clear areas, or research and set up camps. Whilst I did love some of them, the game did not create much affection between me and my characters like how a masterful game like Rimworld does with its pawns. It is okay, I still cared for some of my stronger characters, but it felt less like Rimworld and more like Dwarf Fortress, where you only care about strong characters, and if they die, it is just a bummer and you quickly forget their names. The game was fun, it kept throwing more and more challenges at me, and the final battle was fun, I lose three of my most cherished characters, but as I said, I quickly recovered and dealt with the enemies that killed them. In the end, will I ever replay this game? Probably not, I have a lot of games in my inventory and there are many other games that I would consider replaying before this game, but is it good? Was it fun? Did I enjoy it? Yes, definitely. Lastly, the question about prince, was my 30 hours of enjoyment worth the price of this game and all its DLCs? If without discount, then certainly no, but with a discount, I see it as a pretty good deal. (Though thinking about it overall, I probably wouldn't buy the DLCs)
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It bothers me the developers didn't play this game to catch the small issues and fix them. It is fun little builder but certain things they should have/need to fix. such as trauma centers and people having nervous breakdowns. I had 15 people and 11 of them had the nervous breakout icon on them. I had 4 trauma centers but nope.. trauma centers take too long to heal so the people go crazy in town and I have to kill them. Then more survivors join the town, see the crazy people I had to kill, and they go crazy too. It is like a disease that there is no cure for but keeps spreading. Also too much pollution in the build area. I need resources to grow but can't get them because pollution is clumped together which means more aggro insects. Also, Outhouses don't cause pollution. It is just common sense things involving survival the developers did not even think about. Crops cause pollution? Ugh not if done naturally and correctly.
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Online players
118
Developer
Iceflake Studios
Publisher
Paradox Interactive
Release
16 Nov 2021
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