A Wasteland Robot: Atavism

A Wasteland Robot: Atavism is a card-based survival game with Roguelike elements. You can experience the following core gameplay:

• Exploration: Venture across the vast, procedurally generated post-apocalyptic wasteland to collect essential resources for survival, while encountering various mutated creatures and bionic androids.

• Resources: Manage all resource actions—combining, interacting, and recycling—through simple drag-and-drop stacking. For example, dragging "Motor Oil" onto "Computer Scrap" will create a "Chip Salad". The bolder your experiments, the more unexpected the rewards.

• Research: Collect blueprints to unlock new technologies and craft items that align with your survival philosophy.

• Combat: When night falls, you must defend yourself against hordes of creatures lurking in the darkness and intenting on killing you. They will return every night. Be prepared!

Story Background

> Year 198 of the New Era. 198 years have passed since the 'Great Destruction'.

> You wake up from a dusty corner. The metal joint makes a rough friction sound, and the optical sensor lights up with a weak red light ...

> Through the collapsed roof, you see the leaden sky continuously dropping radiation dust, and the distant chirping of mutated crows can be heard.

> A command flickers in your processing unit —— Go and find The Last Place.

> You need to set off immediately for The Last Place, where hope still remains.

> Until then, do whatever it takes to survive. But to survive here, you'll need to become an expert in some... less than savory fields.

Explore the Wasteland

• Randomized Maps: Each playthrough features a unique, procedurally generated map. The "Post Great Destruction" wasteland is no longer vibrant, littered with explorable ruins and resources. Of course, you will encounter mutated creatures and bionic androids watching from the shadows.

• Stealth Mechanics: Increase your stealth value, and with a bit of luck, you might successfully infiltrate target locations for substantial rewards. But if you fail, be ready to face the consequences!

Manage Resources

• Operations: Perform all resource actions—combining, interacting, and recycling—through simple card-based interactions: drag-and-drop stacking.

• Combination: The key to survival is experimentation. Feel free to try different combinations with any resources you find. Combining "Rolled Paper" with "Computer Scrap" might yield the highly sought-after "Cigar", while throwing "Wood" into a "Fire" can create the useful material "Charcoal".

Technology Research

• Blueprints: You start with nothing, but as you explore deeper and collect more blueprints, you will unlock more new technologies.

• Technology: Hundreds of tech blueprints across categories like Resources, Tools, Weapons, Armor, and Refit. Find the survival path that suits you best.

Withstand the Siege

• Peace Phase: Hostile creatures will follow you but hold their attacks. Use this time to gather more resources or eliminate some enemies? The choice is yours.

• Assault Phase: When night falls, you will face a concentrated wave of attacks, during which you cannot counterattack. Survive the night to enter a new Peace Phase.

Ultimate Goals

• Survival: Survival, survival, survival is always your primary objective. Meticulously manage your time and resources, balancing between caution and aggression.

• Mission:  Follow the mysterious woman's "Words of Apocalypse", reach The Last Place before the radioactive clouds consume the world, and bring life back to this land.

Development Roadmap

• v0.9 (Current Version): Core gameplay is ready, includes 10 hours of content.

• v1.0 (In Development): Performance optimization, enriched story, more items and monsters, 30 hours of gameplay. (Official release version)

• v1.1 (Planned): Add protagonist companions.

• v1.2 (Planned): Add multiple character classes for the protagonist.

• v1.3 (Planned): Add Mod support.

Join Our Development Journey

• This game is passionately created by an individual developer. It is currently in the internal testing phase, meaning it has playable core content but is far from perfect. We firmly believe that close collaboration with the player community is key to success. We sincerely invite you to become a co-creator of the game. Your suggestions and feedback will directly help us decide on future optimization directions and new content. Welcome to join our Steam Discussion Board and share your thoughts.

• If you enjoy games like Fallout, Don't Starve, Stacklands, Card Survival, or Zombie Apocalypse, then our game might be a great fit for you. In this title, we aim to strip away the complexity and pressure often associated with classic survival games and combine it with the slower pace of card games. We hope this game offers you a fresh experience.

• This game is developed using the open-source Godot Engine, which has brought us much fun. We hope more developers will join the Godot community.

• Player Discussion & Feedback QQ Group: 669745372

• Feedback Email: farther2009@outlook.com