Cataclysm: The Last Generation

Cataclysm: The Last Generation is one of my favorite sandboxes. For those unfamiliar with the family of roguelikes descended from the original Cataclysm, they are traditional roguelikes with deep (if sometimes obtuse) systems. Item crafting and modification, maintaining your happiness, learning skills, creating custom vehicles, so many systems it would be absurd to list all of them in a steam review. The price of this is of course that you will need to learn to navigate the UI of the game to make use of all these features, and there is a lot of UI to navigate. Fortunately C:TLG is available for free, so you can go try it out, see if it's for you, then come back here and support the developer later (which is why I have a measly 1 hours of playtime listed. I still prefer to play off of steam). For people that are already familiar with Cataclysm (Dark Days Ahead in particular), I'd like to say that I think this is a good fork of the game. Worm Girl, the developer, has a solid vision of what she wants the game to be like and consistently works towards that. In the short time I've been following the game I've seen the surprise expansion of fungal monsters, adjustments to long standing systems for the better, and many many bug fixes. Compared to DDA I felt like the changes to the balance of armors, healing times, combat in general, food and tool scarcity, etc all led me to make more interesting choices during my playthroughs. I constantly had different needs I needed to address without being able to stock up on a massive supply of food and tools quickly, and had to make decisions over whether it was worth it to for example craft better armor to scavenge in or if I needed to go out there in what I had to secure a few more days of food. Of course like most games centered on survival you can eventually reach a place where your basic needs are functionally met, and at that point its up to you to explore the world in a self directed manner. Finally, I see a handful of negative reviews that boil down to people having a bad interaction with the developer on discord. I've been in the discord since I started playing, and while Worm Girl can be somewhat abrasive, I haven't seen anyone get banned that was not being fairly annoying and entitled. I've been annoying on accident without being banned. Some people though seem to feel very entitled to tell them what the correct way to develop a game is, or get mad about very minor changes. Buying a game that costs the same as a hot dog with fries and a large coke doesn't mean you become a game director. Worm Girl is actually very responsive to bug reports and suggestions (even if the answer is sometimes simply "Not doing that").

Have you been playing Project Zomboid and thought "this game is too straight forward"? Have I got the game for you. I have played several branches of Cataclysm this is currently my favorite. I like the Gradual Mutation perk and I appreciate that there is a dev who is still trying to support point buy, DDA gave up on that a long time ago. Some of the stuff I have seen the dev talk about sounds interesting though it's hard to know how far off that will be. If you are interested you can play the game for free by downloading on Github, but I liked this enough that it felt worth putting some money towards supporting the development of the game.

One of those classic "spray replay value all over your face and body" games, I have about 24 hours played and have yet to get past like the third day the entire world is made of rakes and you will step on every single one

非常好，希望常更新维护

i kill the zombie

Please add Tileset: The Ultimate Cataclysm

Cataclysm TLG has really stood out as a well thoughtout fork. It's a deviation done with genuine care and the focus is on building an immersive sim that emphasizes fun alongside its difficulty. Instead of difficulty for its own sake. That balance is where TLG wins me over. To me it better fits the vision of what this kind of survival experience should be: deep and challenging, but without getting bogged down in realism or over complication taken to the extreme, the way CDDA can. TLG keeps the depth that makes the genre great while staying focused on the actual experience of playing. Wormgirl has a great sense of direction on how this game should evolve and to me its the 'true' way forward with the series. If you want a survival roguelike with real teeth that still respects your time and your enjoyment, this is a great one to sink into.