Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (X)

CleverRaven

About this game

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is a turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Struggle to survive in a harsh, persistent, procedurally generated world. Scavenge the remnants of a dead civilization for food, equipment, or, if you are lucky, a vehicle with a full tank of gas to get you the hell out of Dodge. Fight to defeat or escape from a wide variety of powerful monstrosities, from zombies to giant insects to killer robots and things far stranger and deadlier, and against the others like yourself, that want what you have…

As your game begins, you awaken with hazy memories of violence and terror from when the world suddenly unravelled around you. Now you need to explore your surroundings, and secure food, water and safety. After that, who knows? Long term survival will mean tapping abilities you haven’t used before, learning to survive in this new environment and developing new skills.

FEATURES:

- Tilesets, sound, localization and mod support;
- Backwards compatible with desktop savegames;
- Stores game data and savegames in a publicly writeable location;
- Works with a physical keyboard or virtual keyboard & touchscreen;
- Auto-saves when the app loses focus (screen locked, switched apps etc.);
- Highly customizable touch controls and automatic in-game contextual shortcuts.

CONTROLS:

- `Swipe`: Directional movement (hold for virtual joystick);
- `Tap`: Confirm selection in menu or Pause one turn in-game (hold to Pause several turns in-game);
- `Double-tap`: Cancel/Go back;
- `Pinch`: Zoom in/out (in-game);
- `Back button`: Toggle virtual keyboard (hold to toggle keyboard shortcuts).

TIPS:

- If your game doesn't start, crashes or hangs often try toggling "Software rendering" option in prelaunch menu;
- Adjust terminal size under Settings > Options > Graphics (requires restart).
- There are multiple Android-specific options live under Settings > Options > Android;
- Keyboard shortcuts for frequently used and/or context sensitive commands appear at the bottom of the screen;
- You can remove a shortcut by flicking up on it. Hold it down to see help text;
- For the best keyboard experience, use physical keyboard or SSH-friendly virtual keyboard such as “Hacker’s Keyboard” on the Google Play store;
- If game does not react to touch commands (swipes and shortcut bar does not work), try to disable any accessibility services and apps you might have running (e.g. touch assist, autoclickers etc).

ADDITIONAL INFO:

You can visit project page and follow development here - https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA.

You can find design doc here - https://cataclysmdda.org/design-doc/.

Ratings and reviews

A free, ad-free, constantly updated, highly customizable, infinitely replayable game? What more could you ask for? The fact that CDDA plays so well on a phone for such a complex ASCII game is astonishing. I don't care if the controls are slightly less efficient than playing on desktop, this port is a legendary achievement in and of itself and deserves all the praise.

Works great, currently crashes when trying to use a USB-C hub to connect to an hdmi monitor or keyboard/mouse but I'm sure that'll be fixed eventually. It runs for a bit then catches a fatal error and crashes directly to the phone main menu. Currently playing on a OnePlus 8T (12gb/256gb). === Update for the dev: I tried plugging it before and after, if I plug it in before then it crashes before it reaches the main menu. If I plug it in after then it crashes after navigating the menu for a bit.

Have not been able to get game to actually load past the menu screen. Game hangs up on world creation when using built-in Magiclysm mod and outright crashes using the 0.E stable Arcana mod. This is a consistent issue with the app in all versions I've tried (and I've tried not only the ones on the play store, but also your site). The screen blacks out on loss of focus and doesn't return. Finally, I love that you implemented auto rotate, but it breaks the screen, at least on the main menu.

What's new

The Gaiman experimental release 2023-10-31-1913 (commit 519477442f6e1ff32f97a0b444cf0df5fdf850ed)

Release notes: https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/releases/tag/cdda-experimental-2023-10-31-1913