Surviving the Aftermath Review – Managing and Building in the Midst of an Apocalypse

Will you be able to survive in a totally hostile environment?

After successfully colonizing Mars on Surviving Mars, how about trying again, this time in a post-apocalyptic world? Survive the consequences it’s a new episode in the universe “Survivor”, based on colony construction with a theme of science fiction. Well? Do you dare to try to survive in a hostile post-apocalyptic world?

After being in Xbox game preview for a while, Survive the consequences took the plunge into the world with a full release. It’s had a few bumps along the way, perfectly acceptable for an Early Access title, but the final version seems have remedied most of these problems.

Like its predecessor, Surviving the Aftermath is another colony management simulator. It takes place after a world-destroying event, where humanity is between a rock and a hard place, radiation has dramatically altered ecosystems and the world is a more hostile place never. Starting with a handful of survivors and two specialists, you need to transform this sterile, procedurally generated little patch into a thriving community.

During the configuration phase of your new colony, you can choose whether you want to activate or deactivate the clues that the game will give us to help us. These will appear along with other notifications to guide you through what to do. Once you are up and running, these tips can be very helpful, but in the initial phases are of little use. Either they aren’t fully explained in terms of what to do, or they omit crucial information altogether. You better understand things by yourself during the first hours. Note also that the title It is fully adapted to Spanish.

Survivors are your standard units – they are the ones who build, repair, hunt, and forage for food. We have also those who protect the community and the Specialists, which are more advanced units. They are of no use until you rebuild your community’s main gate, but your specialists will then be able to roam the world map. Here they can find additional resources, defeat enemies, and continue to explore the world outside of your camp. Later, these specialists can help establish new outposts in the desert to help us survive longer.

Cooperation is vital in a ruined world

You are not the only one trying to survive in this tough and difficult world. There will also be enemies, other humans trying to survive, but we also have other camps with which we can make friends. If we advance enough in our investigations, we can begin to exchange resources with them.

Survival is the main concept of the game, which implies that since we can play as long as we want, but there is also an end goal to be achieved. Will also appear missions at random points and, although some are shorter, one of them will introduce you to various structures of the ancient world and try to understand them. If you find them out, you can start build the final structure and ensure your survival at all times.

Sometimes we will also be presented with a brief dilemma that we need to resolve. These tend to lean towards making difficult decisions, with issues present how to deprive children of pleasure or how face the other survivors knocking on the door. Choose the nicest answer and the overall happiness of your camp will increase slightly. However, there aren’t a lot of different issues to solve and even after a while you will be repeating them.

It is extremely important to keep the happiness of the residents as high as possible. Those who are unhappy can turn hostile if things don’t improve. New survivors entering your camp are also subject to this happiness rating, and some will even become instantly hostile once you grant them access. Whether it’s a mistake or a design flaw, frustrating having to shoot new residents immediately after granting them access. Others who will also join at the same time as them, will also pass by your camp.

Disasters come on the scene

On top of that, you have to face disasters In this already jaded world Surviving the Consequences has a customizable difficulty percentage and you can adapt the difficulty to your likingFrom changing the frequency of these disasters to the amount of resources available to collect.

Disasters are post-apocalyptic weather phenomena that will put your camp setup to the test. For example, a winter storm will require bonfires and firewood to keep residents alive and a Radioactive fallout this will increase the cases of radiation sickness. As long as you prepare for these events, casualties are expected among our settlers.

Surviving the aftermath doesn’t care if you have the most inhabitants, the clue is in the headline. It focuses on survival the best you can. The game will throw a lot of things at you to reduce your number of people and for most of the game you will feel like they even give you your ID card. A bad decision or an element of surprise can lead to disaster. In this sense, it reproduces very well the sensations experienced in Surviving Mars and we can easily understand why these games are grouped under the same name as “Surviving”.

All of this translates into a entertaining management and construction title. But that’s all Survive the consequences is, since does not add anything new to the genre, nor the post-apocalyptic framework he chooses to adopt. There is a constant feeling that something new is imminent as its system of progression and improvement is very fast, but unfortunately nothing new is happening and you end up with a feeling of not quite good repetitiveness. . It’s an entertaining game, but if you’ve ever played a game like this there is nothing new here that you have never seen before.