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Platform(s): Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox One
Genre: Strategy
Developer: Finji
Release Date: 2019

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'Overland' Also Comes To Nintendo Switch and Xbox One - Screens & Trailer

by Rainier on March 21, 2019 @ 11:27 a.m. PDT

Overland is squad-based survival strategy game with procedurally generated levels set in post-apocalyptic North America.

Overland is a turn-based survival strategy game with procedurally generated challenges, characters and scenarios that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Overland is an end-of-the-world roadtrip taking place after an unknown cataclysmic event has crumbled the infrastructure of the United States. You control a team of survivors (of both the human and canine variety) who must work together to scavenge for supplies, keep their car fueled up, and defend themselves against mysterious enemies.

Each run in starts the same way: You’re given a randomly-generated character who starts off on the east coast of the United States, with nothing but the clothes on their back and a calling to go westward. From there, you’ll journey from point to point, gathering a party of allies and making strategic decisions about your route, how to approach combat scenarios, and sometimes, who lives and who dies.

No two runs in Overland will be the same, resulting in a turn-based strategy game with infinite possibilities.


While the game’s presentation will feel familiar to fans of tactics games, the actual gameplay sets it apart from other strategy titles. Rather than hulking space marines or magical wizards, Overland’s player characters are normal, everyday people. These folks are having to improvise their weapons and have no formal combat training. In some fights, avoiding your alien enemies is a better strategy than attempting to fight them head-on. Killing one of these creatures will cause them to let out an ear-splitting death cry, drawing the attention of their blood-thirsty allies.

The most successful runs are all about narrowly escaping situations where combat was a last resort. In our game, it’s not about being the biggest badass.

Survival is the priority.

Key Features:

  • Stay away from the creatures. Always keep fuel in the tank. 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 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 med kits, shields, axes, potted plants, scavenged armor, and luggage racks.
  • A completely new end of the world from Adam Saltsman, the creator of Canabalt, with gorgeous, award-winning visuals by Heather Penn and a haunting, original soundscape by Jocelyn Reyes.
  • Not everyone is going to make it. Turn-based strategy and rogue-like elements

Overland is in development for Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and PC, scheduled for release in Fall 2019.


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