Overland
Finji · 2019 · Strategy, Post-apocalyptic, Turn-Based, Survival, Procedural Generation
PC
Mostly Positive75% · 49569Metacritic
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About Overland
Take care of a group of travelers on a post-apocalyptic road-trip across the United States in this turn-based survival game. Fight scary creatures, rescue stranded survivors, and scavenge for supplies like fuel, first aid kits, and weapons. Decide where to go next, whether it's upgrading this wrecked car, or rescuing that dog. Just remember, there are consequences for every action. Get ready for close calls, dramatic escapes, hard choices, arguing about whether or not that dog gets rescued, and the end of the world.
Overland Version 1.2 is now available! Explore the end of the world with new pug dog companions and new rest stop levels. Enjoy the new introduction and prologue! This version includes 3 new difficulty settings, 7 new game modifiers including all dogs mode, tourist mode, and expert settings. You can browse records from your past trips and check out updated badge and stats displays. Overland v1.2 also includes dialog, item and environment updates to make Overland even better.
Features:
Overland Version 1.2 is now available! Explore the end of the world with new pug dog companions and new rest stop levels. Enjoy the new introduction and prologue! This version includes 3 new difficulty settings, 7 new game modifiers including all dogs mode, tourist mode, and expert settings. You can browse records from your past trips and check out updated badge and stats displays. Overland v1.2 also includes dialog, item and environment updates to make Overland even better.
Features:
- Always keep fuel in the tank. Stay away from the creatures. Be careful. Be quiet.
- Loud sounds attract trouble, and there's no way you can fight them all. Grab as much gas as you can, rescue that trapped stranger, and get back in the car before it's too late.
- Travel West, through grasslands, over mountains, across deserts, and to even stranger places. Every level, roadmap, and character is randomly generated, so each trip is new.
- Equip dozens of items, including medkits, shields, axes, potted plants, scavenged armor, and luggage racks.
- A completely new end of the world from Finji (Canabalt, Night in the Woods).
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
The game features a unique world with an interesting art style and engaging puzzle-based strategy gameplay that most players find fun, supported by a solid story and good compatibility across systems. However, players consistently criticize the clunky controls, fixed camera system that limits visibility, unintuitive interface, and various unpolished mechanics like unclear movement maps and unrealistic inventory limits, which undermine what could otherwise be an enjoyable experience.
strategy based game with lore i dont understand that is intriguing nonetheless. i love the dogs TwT1 found this helpful
So the thing about minimalism is. You need to be clear how your game works. How your game works needs to be interesting. Neither of these is true in Overland. It has a good premise! Aliens have invaded and you're on a liminal road trip trying to stay alive. You can scavenge items and recruit other travelers and you need to maintain your car. This is all good. But the interface is clunky, explains nothing, doesn't control intuitively, and punishes you extremely for not intuiting it. For example, I got a buddy and found a new car. I fueled it, turned it on, brought both cars to the stage exit, we were both ready to leave, I selected leave, and abandoned my buddy in his fueled and running car. Why? But sometimes it's worth pushing through a game that communicates badly. Sometimes the gameplay is deep and rewarding. It isn't. Enemy moves a couple blocks. You move a couple blocks. If you're injured, you move less blocks and can't escape the enemy. If the enemy catches you, you die. Theoretically spending items makes things more interesting. This is a game that cares a lot about resources. But like. None of the resources explain what they do. You just have t…1 found this helpful
Absolute worst controls i've experienced in a game in ages. I mean, absolute ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. I'd be embarrassed to put out a game with these controls. On top of that, you have a fixed view. So if there's a monster on the other side of something big. To bad, you dont get to see it unless you use the "camera," mode. But as soon as you exit, you're immediately back in the fixed vies. The art style is fantastic, and the game is a great idea. Unfortunately it's wasted on controls, that I am guessing they just gave up on. I also hate that the car can't go anywhere other than two strips of road, the car has no storage, and you cant go into any buildings. The game has very little in it overall, and gets boring pretty fast.1 found this helpful
Works on a majority of systems, and a good story with a unique world1 found this helpful
After playing this game on the apple arcade (shame it's not on mobile) I've honestly had a great time with it. It's not only a turn based strategy game but an effective story telling game where your choices matter. It's sweet and simple, and doesn't try to be something it's not. I'd say it's worth the money and especially if you have a steam deck, as this is a fun game for travel.
Very fun to play with the puzzles, but not a ton of ability to replay. Unless you play as dogs. The dogs are good.
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