After the Collapse
Anarkis Gaming · 2022 · Colony Sim, Base Building, Survival, Strategy, Management
PC
Mostly Positive78% · 212
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About After the Collapse
After The Collapse is a base-building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring both urban and country-side environments. It features Z levels (ability to dig down to explore caverns and sewers) and the ability to manage multiple dozens of survivors in real-time. It also gives you the choice between playing as technology-minded humans, combat-focused mutants, or even a tribe of cannibals.
Your task is to manage a band of survivors and protect them against raiders, mutants, monsters, and other environmental threats. To do so, you'll have to build a base, discover new technologies, and scavenge for resources. As the game progresses, you'll send expeditions to explore a dynamic world map to find other survivors, repair resource production centers, deal with other factions, uncover hidden secrets, and retrieve lost technologies.
After The Collapse, on top of being a free-form base-building game with light 4X elements, also includes multiple scenarios and a very expansive Story Mode with an optional tutorial for newcomers.
- Build a colony in procedurally generated environments featuring many biomes, weather patterns, multiple underground layers with resources, and dangerous foes.
- Manage a population ranging from a few survivors to hundreds of them and defend them against bandits and other creatures with automated turrets, traps, and other defensive structures.
- Multiple game modes, a full story mode, and several scenarios with specific challenges, goals, and quests.
- Launch expeditions to find more survivors, loot, and technologies in a dynamic world map where other factions are competing for control of the various resource production centers. Deal with them as you see fit.
- Explore forgotten bunkers through an interactive story system to uncover lost technologies, like the ability to build your own customizable robotic army.
- Use captured enemies as a workforce or as commodities and tame giant creatures to use them as pets, cattle, or even a way to defend yourself.
- Deal with dozens of special events: sicknesses, fires during heat waves, mental breakdown, enemy raiders, requests for help from civilians, and many more.
- Full modding and Steam Workshop support.
After The Collapse features a long campaign that also serves as a tutorial in its early stages. It follows the adventures of a group of survivors since their arrival in the bunker which kept them alive during the Collapse. It also sets the game's official lore through cutscenes and interactive quests.
While Story Mode is played as a group of standard humans, in all other game modes and most scenarios, you can play as one of three archetypes:
- The weak but technologically-minded humans who sure die easily in a fight, but they can unlock the ability to build modern gear, weapons, and automated turrets to defend themselves.
- The strong mutants, immune to most sicknesses and weather effects, but have a tendency to fight amongst themselves and are very technology limited. They rely on map exploration and scavenging to find and use the more powerful weapons.
- The nasty cannibals who have no issue converting bandits and other hostiles into food, but who have forgotten their pre-war skills.
As the game progresses, the world around you will change. Plants will grow, wither and die. Weather will change, impacting your crops. Creatures will start roaming the countryside and may enter your base when you don't expect it. Other factions will compete for the control of the critical resource production centers.
After the Collapse is under active development and will continue to receive free content updates regularly.
We respond to feedback and bug reports quickly.
After The Collapse is a very easy game to mod. Mod creators will enjoy its very robust engine and that all the game's data (from items to mobs or game events) is written in a simple, text-driven, format. More advanced modders will appreciate the ability to use LUA.
Of course, the Steam Workshop is fully supported.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
This game, sadly, doesn't hit the mark. If you like zombies and don't like how Rimworld constantly ramps up it's pressure until the game is unplayable, this game might sound appealing at first glance. The issue is the most basic concepts that it DOESN'T take from Rimworld. There is very little flexibility in how you optimize your workload and how you map out your projects. The UI interface is awful, favouring vague iconography over just telling you what the function is. Zones cannot deviate from a 4 sided shape. Prioritization cannot be equal, one thing must have a greater or lesser priority over another. Mapping what each villager can and cannot do is tedious, but necessary. Individual crafting tasks cannot be prioritised over another, only the overarching job it applies to can. There is no 'storage zone', everything must be stored within a construct, so get used to building a ton of these that fill up instantly. The dev, for some inexplicable reason, has decided to put googly cartoon eyes on all his mutated monster enemies. UI Icons for domesticated animals are cutesy, and I imagine the creative process was to use the first free asset pack he found in a google search. Everythi…4 found this helpful
So far so good, kinda of a bridge between Rimworld and songs of Syx in terms of scale, in a fallout-esque post apocalypse3 found this helpful
Incredibly frustrating, regrettable experience. The UI is a nightmare that makes the whole gameplay abysmal and annoying, with no enjoyment in sight. The worst aspect of this game is the combat and watching it play out - you'll start a newgame, assign everyone to build stuff in the previously-thought "cleared out" building AND OUT OF NOWHERE, SPIDERS WILL ATTACK AND BLOODY KILL EVERYONE. You think "Ah crap! Well, atleast I can micro them properly like in Rimworld, right??" But nah, the management of soldiers is a pain of unforeseen proportions and insanely frustrating, not to mention slow. Have fun properly managing them without plucking your damn hair out and demanding a refund. But oh! It's too late! You can't do that now! WHAT A WASTE OF MONEY. The UI, controls, AI and just the general feel of it with AI-controls ruin absolutely everything. Don't ever waste your money on this.1 found this helpful
After the collapse takes gameplay style notes from games like "Rimworld" and "Prison Architect". You build a colony in the ruins of a nuclear war-ravaged civilization. It's different enough from Rimworld in tone and in gameplay that it stands apart. It's worth investing some time in this different flavor of colony sim - it's a good one.
Great story quest to follow then option to play different factions gives good replay options. Challenging but fun base building game, i like the structure of the world map with different options for travel, battle, and faction interactions
Love this game. Haven't played in some time but I like to be surprised when I come back to a good game and find some awesome updates which Anarkis has yet to fail on. With that being said, this game truly plays like a finished product and the Dev is quite active and very honest about what he is doing. No made up lies or stalling because of this and that, just right to the point and the truth. I really believe this game is way underrated and needs more exposure somehow, Maybe as fans we could all help out with that. :) The pricing is also something I believe is undervalued and really it could be jumped up around the 30 mark and you would still feel like you got a good deal as to the amount of play-ability and great content. I look foward to more updates and the new DLC which should be coming out soon. Great work DEV!
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