In Surviving the Aftermath, players will build and manage a colony of survivors in the shadow of a world-ending event. Resources are scarce following the apocalypse, and survival requires mastery of complex systems to optimize production and colony management to ensure nothing is wasted. Players will construct buildings, manage colonists, adapt to natural disasters and more in an effort to restore civilization.

Surviving the Aftermath is more than a colony builder and enables players to go beyond the shelter to explore a dangerous world filled with unique biomes, hazards, bandits, and more. Recruit and send out teams of Specialists to gather resources and intelligence about the world around the colony. Players can see what their teams have discovered by utilizing a vast overworld map that adds layers of strategic gameplay not typically included in a colony builder.

Future updates to Surviving the Aftermath include diplomacy and combat options between colonies, expanded tech trees, endgame content and much more.

Paradox Interactive and Iceflake Studios have kicked off 2020 with the launch of Update 3: Expeditions, a free content update to Surviving the Aftermath that introduces vehicles and enhances trade between societies. Vehicles allow players to quickly send groups of Specialists across the World Map while trade allows the player to leverage their colony’s reputation in exchange for favors and resources.

In addition to vehicles and trading, Update 3: Expeditions (full patch notes here) adds two more buildings players can construct in their colony and Twitch integrations enabling content creators to engage with their audience in-game.

• Vehicles: Vehicles can be found while exploring the World Map and can be salvaged by specialists. Salvaged vehicles must be brought back to the colony for repairs before your specialists can use them for exploration. Once repaired, players can use vehicles to transport groups of specialists across the World Map.
• Trade: Players can now trade favors and resources with other societies on the World Map. Using reputation as currency, players set up trade deals whenever a convoy arrives at their colony’s gate. Trading convoy’s will establish trade routes between colonies, and depending on the arrangement, players will need to have enough supplies stocked up before the convoy’s arrival or risk facing a penalty. Players can even trade seeds with their neighbors, rather than relying on events to acquire them.
• New Buildings: The colony can now house a Refinery and Garage. With the introduction of vehicles comes a new resource to power them, fuel. The Refinery produces fuel from Sunflower oil harvested from the colony’s farms. Garages are used to store and repair vehicles, with each Garage able to maintain a single vehicle and requires an assigned Specialist to operate.
• Twitch Integrations: Twitch streamers can enable Twitch integrations via Surviving the Aftermath’s settings which enables their audience to vote on the next catastrophe or the results of each event.

Since its Early Access launch in October, Iceflake Studios and Paradox Interactive have been hard at work updating Surviving the Aftermath. In November, Update 1: The Colony introduced additional buildings players can construct, more resources to collect, and expanded colony management options. Update 2: Outposts arrived in December giving the World Map a massive visual overhaul, adding the ability to build Outposts away from the colony, and more. Alongside the new features, each update addresses player feedback and incorporates suggestions from the community. 

Surviving the Aftermath is now available in Early Access on the Epic Games Store and Xbox Game Preview for $19.99 / £15.49 / €19.99.

Key Features:

• No Place Like Home: Build and manage a colony of survivors after a world-ending event. Construct more than 50 unique buildings to handle everything from resource collection and farming to exploration and security. Don’t forget to construct the Gate to venture into the savage world beyond your colony. 
• Surviving Earth: Explore a vast procedurally generated world featuring six different biomes filled with exploitable resources, bandits, and more. Each environment has different conditions that will affect your colony’s survival. Stay vigilant: Natural disasters will put your survivors to the test. 
• Survival is my Specialty: Recruit over 46 unique Specialists, each with their own skills and motivations, to manage your colony’s resources and production. Send them beyond the Gate on scientific missions, scavenger runs, and to fight bandits.
• Expect the Unexpected: Life in the aftermath requires you to make moral choices. You may not be able to control everything in your colony, but how you respond to situations and emergent events will shape the character of your new civilization.
• Mods: Surviving the Aftermath players can bring their own visions to life using Paradox Mods. 

Surviving the Aftermath is coming to PS4, Xbox One and PC (Epic Games Store, Steam) in late 2020.