Cataclysm: The Last Generation

Great fork, not a very nice dev, especially considering I paid for the game when I didn't have to. Edit: After reading several other reviews turns out I'm not the only one to be treated weirdly hostile within days of seeking help on the discord. I was banned by the dev from the discord after asking some questions about food intake, rationing, and trying to basically understand the system a little better. Each time this Worm Girl came down with a harsher and harsher response. I tried to ignore them, and just talk to the others, and finally they said something like "Can you not read?" and I had had it, and finally said "I'm kinda done with your belligerency, please leave me be." and boom, I was banned. I have no idea why they seemed to be so hostile and trying to ignore them just made it worse. I didn't want to be rude back, because thats not how I am, but a person can only take so much before they are going to respond. I tried to reach out to them, but, being banned and all makes it kinda hard. And now I'm at the point where I just don't care anymore, and I'd rather warn other people to steer clear. I'm writing this to add to the other reviews here as a warning, don't give money to this Dev, their treatment of players is awful. You can get the fork for free. Also, remember, this is a transaction, and you are technically a customer, and now operate in the business world. There are options to handle such things.

The fork is fine, good even, but the dev has a chip on their shoulder the size of a continent and will pick fights with people in the steam discussion or discord for minor criticisms or questions (even questions about how the game works which for something this complex is... a choice). Grab it from the github if you must play it but i can't recommend spending money on it.

I made a suggestion on Wormgirl's discord that the glass system has confusing and inconsistent naming. She first went on a weird condescending tangent about how "wired glass was invented in the 1950s blah blah it's worse than reinforced glass, windshields don't need wired glass". Then I posted a screenshot of how the reinforced windshield for vehicles requires wired glass, and she shrugged it off as her making a mistake and went off on another tangent talking about how she already removed so many redundant glass varieties from CDDA (cool, that's good). When i said "I just wanted the glass naming to be consistent" she went off on me saying "i don't care what you want". Then when I asked about why laminated glass is a worldgen only thing that can't be crafted. She muted me and deleted my suggestion post. This is EXACTLY the sort of behavior I hated from the CDDA devs, slightly worse even because at least they can't delete github conversations like Wormgirl deletes discord posts, otherwise I would post a screenshot of it as proof of her behavior. I regret paying for this on Steam.

Yea I played this one a little bit. It's fine. Ignore the negative reviews by salty CDDA devs, they are mad that their toxic attiude towards fans has now come back to bite them in the @$$. They were the monopoly on "decent realistic survival cataclysm branch", and now with the introduction of CTLG, they are not. This fork is rough, and I said it as someone who has 1000s hours in CDDA and CBN. But not in the sense that it's bad, it's just harder than the other two, and you won't feel like a demigod among men anytime soon, but when you do, it would feel like you earned it. It would feel like you have torn that $h!t from the mouth of defeat and the gate of hell. It would make you proud (after it made you sweat and shiver countless times before that. I swear I spent ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ MINUTES in real life for a turn in which I stupidly or carelessly put my character in precarious positions. But when I managed to get out of those by any means possible, the high I've got was incomparable to anything I've experienced in my gaming life so far. Buy it, play it. Or do it the other way around because Worm Girl is a chad who gave the world this gem for free on github. But no matter which way you go about doing it, just ignore the blatant negative reviews. It's a shame that a game as magical as Cataclysm got so much drama behind it, but that's life I guess.

The fork this is based on is going down the toilet but Worm Girl has an actual vision for the game. As far as I am concerned this is the definitive version of Cataclysm.

Lots of good changes from CDDA, and that diversity strengthens both games. Developer banned me from the Discord when I tried to get involved with the community. Still recommend supporting this, it's a great fork of an open source game and that's good for the art of game development across the board.

I have 100+ hours on the Github fork over multiple playthroughs. Most reviewers here are people who played for free first, loved it, and bought it here as a "tip jar" for the dev. You're not going to see many negative reviews here as a result. tl;dr: I can't recommend buying unless you played it for free on the Github first. I can't even recommend trying it for free unless you're absolutely desperate for a hardcore survival roguelike. Even then, I'd try everything else first. The Last Generation (TLG) is a mod of Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (DDA), a game with a famously steep learning curve and an absurd number of keybinds. TLG has an actual tutorial and a hotkey which opens an action tree from which you can select the desired command, which immediately helps. Its still not very intuitive or fun to learn, but that's the sin of the father so its hard to complain. What separates TLG is that it strips out or pares down a lot of the "classic roguelike" parts of the original game (character progression, dungeon exploration etc.) in favor of "solving for survival" gameplay. This means an emphasis on calorie-counting, nutritionally-balanced meal planning, and healthy lifestyle management. This would be more interesting if the game did not take place in a version of New England where most of the people are dead. There is tons of food lying around. You can hunt, you can fish, you can trap. Survival in this environment takes time and a little knowledge, not brain cells. The bigger issue is one common to a lot of survival games: once you solve the initial problem of basic survival, there isn't much left to do except make a new character. Good survival games feature an evolution (new needs), an escalation (multiple people), or both once the basic survival loop is mastered. TLG says "good job", then pushes you to do the same endgame dungeons that exist in other forks of DDA, and who implement them better. The dev is a good programmer, but not a good game designer. The changelog for the last year has mostly been minutia or changes to systems that already worked "okay" rather than fixing the overarching issues, and they absolutely have a problem with criticism and banning people. Don't expect things to improve.

Do NOT speak in the Discord, you WILL get banned. Wormgirl was being honestly pretty condescending to someone I saw that as ♥♥♥♥♥♥ and said 'Don't be rude : 3' And then got banned instantly. Really scummy person, seemingly unable to take the most mild shift in views. Overall the game is pretty decent though, with good pushes and active time, just don't let the creator trample over you.

Great version of Cataclysm that is actually fun to play. Most of the negative reviews either complain about personal issues with the developer or about the game not being the exact version of Cataclysm they think would be perfect. You can look up the changes and even try them out for free by getting the fork from GitHub; it’s not like the changes are hidden. You can easily decide whether you like them before buying the version on Steam. Buying this is a way to support the developer and get your game updates through Steam. If you don’t want that, just try the free version first.