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This is quite a nifty idea, letting you manually choose resources in certain areas or prioritise planks over concrete or vice versa for the resource stockpiles. This is all handled via a process of setting work areas for buildings circular regions you can expand or shrink to cover more or less resources. Food stockpiles let you forage for berries, resource stockpiles will collect planks and concrete and scrappers and recyclers will breakdown metal and plastic deposits. In the beginning, you will have access to a few buildings that let you harvest resources from the map. Setting up a colony in Surviving the Aftermath is fairly straightforward. “The fishing shack? Sure, keep heading north and hang a right at the mound of toxic waste you absolutely should not be concerned about at all.” It certainly is one of the most impressively committed and regulated content releases for an early access game that I’ve seen to date. Thus far they are doing an admirable job of sticking to this timeline with new content including other colonies to interact with, vehicles, expanded tech trees and colonist personalities.

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As this review comes out, Iceflake Studios have just released the fifth of what they are promising will be twelve monthly content releases ahead of a full release in late 2020/early 2021. The fact is that it’s difficult to say entirely what Surviving the Aftermath will be at this stage as it’s only in an Early Access release. Imagine trying to build a colony in the wake of the nuclear war of the Falloutuniverse but minus vaults, super mutants, power armour and a vaguely 1950s sci-fi theme. It’s a crowded scene to try and break into but Surviving the Aftermath aims for a niche with its setting: following a global nuclear catastrophe.

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The PC gaming scene is not short of survival simulators from the aforementioned Surviving Mars to Dead State and Frostpunk, all via the daddy of them all, Rimworld. One of the enduring mysteries of the game is what the deuce happened to your truck to cause it to collapse that utterly.

Now Iceflake Studios have entered the fray with Surviving the Aftermath, a simulation of… trying to establish a… colony in a hostile environment while fighting off… you know what, I think you know where I’m going with this. That game was from Haemimont Games - the developer of Tropico.

Publisher Paradox Interactive had a hit on their hands a few years ago with Surviving Mars, a simulation of trying to establish a colony in a hostile environment while fighting off disasters and trying to become self-sufficient. Gathering resources, exploring the ruined remnants of society and fighting off crisis after crisis are all on the cards for this plucky group. In Surviving the Aftermath you take control of a tiny colony of apocalypse survivors and must guide them through their own personal post-extinction-level-event timeline.

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