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

Incredibly deep rogue-like on PC that translates surprisingly well to touch controls. Be aware that you will die a lot getting started, and you will get frustrated. Stick with it and you will eventually learn that you just spent five hours having fun playing this game and you aren't dead yet. That's progress, I guess. Grab the latest experimental build from a quick web search, the Play Store version is very old.

I love the hell outta this game I've been playing it none stop, but I really don't use the debug mode not saying anything wrong with it but I think it's for ppl thats having a hard time or just want to relex and just do they're own thing so the game is probably super fun cheating but you won't learn anything or grow And I love when you can earn advertisements in the game. This game came a long way they did a wonderful job with the game.

A truly amazing, open source game. It is always on my phone and chromebook. Experimental is pretty stable with only an occasional issue. 40Mb gets you a game to sink hundreds of hours in and is always updated by great contributers, for free. There are many starting scenarios, professions, and content to explore: Infinite open world, missions, vehicle and base building, crafting, farming, fishing, NPC factions (and your own), bionic implants, mutations, tameable animals, surviving. Its all there!

What’s new

The 0.H release candidate experimental release 2024-10-28-0634 (commit ba07ee68d5f921422b05381b79da63db35067762)

Release notes: https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/releases/tag/cdda-0.H-2024-10-28-0634

Changelog: https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/blob/0.H-branch/data/changelog.txt

Issue with small screen size is fixed!