Extinction Day

Translation provided by ai. The original Chinese text is attached below. Please refer to the original version if there are any ambiguities.I’ve put about 40–50 hours into Extinction Day (by DryGin Studios). I’ve fully completed all campaigns, all challenges, and unlocked every achievement within the first few days after they went live. I’d like to share some personal feedback. First, I feel the content and disaster upgrades are too few and messy. The upgrade system is disorganized, with all 强化 effects split off into separate nodes. We have volcanoes and storms, but also things like tempests and tornado swarms. Splitting them into active/passive is fine, but I think all active disasters could come with certain secondary passive effects. You could also add upgrades that boost the impact of two disasters in the same region, and give off‑map upgrades a more noticeable presence. Right now these systems overlap too much with the “Influence” mechanic. While individual disasters can have plenty of upgrade boosters, they take up way too much space. You could even add small, disaster‑specific upgrades within the Influence tree—this would make Influence feel more necessary, instead of just picking one off‑map upgrade for speedruns. Second, off‑map upgrades are too rigid and limited. You could turn some custom game variables into minor off‑map bonuses, and add playstyle‑specific upgrades for each disaster type—like enhancing passive effects of passive disasters, or a “good luck” boost for zombies. This would give players more build diversity and dynamic runs. You can explore this more yourselves; for example, certain skill paths could naturally lean into these bonuses. Your existing off‑map upgrades (like reduced alert level) already enable different playstyles, so this would fit well. Third, there are too few easter eggs. The ones you have are overt, which lowers the entry barrier—good—but they’re all challenge‑focused. There’s nothing for casual fun. For example, I once unleashed a volcano in the Arctic; an achievement like “Arctic Meltdown” would be awesome. Another time I kept dropping meteorites on the Caribbean until everyone was dead—an achievement like “Pierce the Planet” would feel great. Right now achievements like “100k Blood” or “Terminate North America in X Days” are too stressful, and they kill the fun factor for many players. Fourth, challenges are too easy. I beat most of them at level 10–15, and even the harder ones only took a few tries. There’s no real challenge. I’d love to see higher difficulty tiers, and maybe one‑attempt challenges that can’t be replayed. Now that I’m level 30, I can’t find anything that feels relaxed yet engaging. Please make the current difficulties Tier 1 / Tier 2, then add Tier 3 and Tier 4 above them. Fifth, some small quality‑of‑life suggestions: In custom challenges, let us bind keyboard keys to percentage values. Right now you can only manually drag up to 500%, which is tedious and hurts your hand if you want higher values. Label disaster types clearly—e.g., mark “Natural Disaster” or “Biological Disaster” in the corner of the icon. It would help us quickly tell which disasters belong to which category. Further separate active vs. passive disasters, as I mentioned earlier. For example, keep both Tornado and Tornado Swarm under storms. Earthquakes and volcanoes are closely tied to geology, but since we’re already using “mysterious powers” to spawn disasters, you can be more creative here. Prioritize realistic disaster progressions before supernatural ones. We love zombie viruses and fantasy disasters—they’re super fun—but we’d also like more realistic disasters first: tsunamis, wildfires, earthquakes, floods, landslides, hailstorms, drought leading to famine, extreme heat, etc. These could be designed as disaster cards that you “attach” to regions—e.g., apply Extreme Heat to cities in North America, altering their environmental stats. Having active, passive, and persistent environmental cards would drastically increase depth—similar to your “Rapid Harvest” mechanic. Then you can slowly add more wild stuff: ape rampages, vampires, demons, alien invasions, etc. The reason we want realistic ones first is immersion. Imagine a zombie outbreak combined with extreme heat/cold or food shortages—it feels way more alive than just zombies or vampires alone. It also changes regional dynamics and opens up new strategies. Add a “no‑additional‑challenges” mode for 4‑star disaster completions. Once you fully max out a disaster type, unlock a special standalone level for that disaster—with buffs like increased energy or longer drop intervals—so we can replay and master it without forced constraints like “deal X damage in civil war” or “keep alert low.” These could be optional: main objectives like Level 2, secondary conditions like Level 3, or pure “kill all humans” mode with no requirements. Expand the Ark system. Right now it only speeds up research and evacuation. Add more disaster cards tied to the Ark—like the extreme heat I mentioned earlier—or new chaos effects: radical rebel groups, spies, increased unrest, reduced countermeasure chance, etc. Later, if you add alien invasions, these factions could even fight back—just balance their ground impact so they don’t overshadow disasters. This is just brainstorming; there’s lots of potential—even passive disasters like fake news triggering civil unrest would be cool. Keep up the great work! I’m a huge fan of disaster sims—I’ve put countless hours into games like Plague Inc. and Quarantine Zone. It’s rare to find a game that brings everything together so well and with such polish. I’d love to see a dual perspective mode like “Doctor vs. Reaper” in a future update. Keep going! Quick question: Is level 3 the max for off‑map upgrades?我玩了四十五十小时了，个人对这个游戏全比赛完成全挑战完成，所有成就在出来的前几天也都完成了，想简单谈谈个人感受。第一，感觉内容和灾害升级等太少太乱了，而且升级有些太乱了，把强化效果都单出来了，而且有火山有风暴可是暴风雨也还要龙卷风群，这样分主动被动感觉可以将所有的主动都配置一定的附带灾害，并且出同地方两个灾害强化的影响力内容，而且可以加强那个局外强化的存在感，并且个人感觉这些和影响度的方面有一定重合，虽然确实单个灾害可以多些强化剂类的升级，但是个人感觉占比较大了许多，甚至你可以在影响力里面单出来些小的关于具体灾害的强化，这样也可以再次加重玩家对影响力的需求，不至于竞速的影响力带一个局外强化就可以了。第二，就是局外加强太固定打法和太少了，你可以将自定义的变量也做成一些弱的局外强化，然后对于具体的灾害类型的风格做出强化，比如扩大被动灾害的被动之类，或者僵尸出个提高好运，可以提供玩家更多升级路线的选择和临场变化，这个你们可以自己探索，比如在你们不点什么技能需要些什么然后偏向出这方面的强化，因为你们降低警戒等局外强化已经提供了一定这种游玩的环境。第三，个人感觉彩蛋太少了，你们彩蛋都是明出来的很好，可以降低玩家的入门难度，但是都是偏向于打挑战，没用那种休闲，比如有一把我在北极放了火山，如果出一个北极融化的成就那就很棒了，我还在一次一直在加勒比海扔陨石，虽然人都没生命了，但是如果可以出现一个炸穿地球的成就就很棒了，因为现在成就十万血液，多少天终结北美洲，都有一定的压力，让玩家的趣味性低了很多。第四，挑战我十多级就可以打过，难度高的打几遍打过了，没挑战性，希望可以出更高难度，而且不能打第二次，我现在三十级想进去轻轻松松打一下结果不知道哪里打，希望将现在的难度设置成为第一第二难度，然后再加上面别的三级四级的难度。第五，细节问题我提一些，第一个是自定义挑战中希望可以键盘改数字，百分之一百自己只能手动按到百分之五百，一个没事，但是自己想搞多一些就很难受了，手都按疼了。第二个是灾害标注一下，比如在传染病左上角标注一个自然灾害或者生化灾害等等，让我们能更加清楚哪些灾害是哪些属性的。第三个是将主被动细化，正如我的第一点，最简单的就像风暴的龙卷风群和龙卷风直接都出，因为地震啊火山这些都是和地质结构相关性很大，但是我们既然都可以做一个可以无视一切用自己的神秘能力来制造灾害那么就放开手来办。第四是希望现实向的灾害进度可以提前于虚幻灾害，我们当然喜欢虚幻一些的灾害，比如僵尸病毒，特别有趣，但是我们可能希望有更多现实些的灾害比如海啸，山火，地震，洪水，泥石流，冰雹，干旱到饥荒，高温等等可以出出来先，因为这些可以像设计成灾害卡片单一挂在哪些地方比如在北美洲哪些城市挂一个高温，然后可以改变环境的温度属性，这样有主动被动还有这种挂着的卡可以让这类游戏的丰富度指数提升，就像你的快速收割等等的，然后慢慢来些猩猩狂乱到吸血鬼到恶魔出现到或者什么的外星人入侵哈哈都可以，为什么现实点的希望快点，因为这样更要代入感，你想想一个地方僵尸爆发然后结果致命高温低温或者食物匮乏同时存在，给人的代入感就比单单一个僵尸或者吸血鬼在的感觉更好，而且还改变了地点的属性，让打法更加丰富。第五是希望在一个灾难类型全部四星完成可以出一个这个灾害没用附加挑战比如能量增加或者掉落间隔变大的单个关卡给我们玩家来重复体验，可以重复体验一类灾害但是又不至于非要上面内战打多少伤害，非要严重控制警戒度，当然可以把这个可以变成可选的，比如第2关的主要任务可以代培第3关的附加情况，也可以选择没用任何要求，就是杀光人类。第六，希望方舟不是只能加快研发加快撤退，可以多一些灾害卡片，如高温我上面说的这些，可以来些灾害，比如极端反抗组织或者间谍之类增加混乱降低发生反略措施的概率等等，当然说不定可以到时候外星人入侵还可以对抗之类的，但是要降低外星人地面的影响来平衡灾害强度啊，我只是随便说一下，说不定还有更多东西可以存在，或者虚假消息导致内乱等等的一个被动灾害也可以。加油我喜欢的游戏，我特别喜欢灾害模拟器游戏，瘟疫公司到隔离区这些反病毒细菌这些我都玩了很多，真的很少遇见集大成者而且完成度这么高的，也可以像之前出医生和死神双视角，希望继续加油吧，顺带一句，三级就满了吗局外强化？

this game is honestly a ton of fun, adding more scenarios more passives/actives will only improve it! more content and DLC! this is a great game

♥♥♥♥♥

A genuinely fun indie title with huge potential. The atmosphere and core mechanics hit the mark, and it’s very easy to lose track of time once you get into it. If you enjoy the genre, it’s definitely worth picking up and supporting. Great work by the team!

还行

42小时解锁全成就，难度并不高，玩起来挺解压。希望后续版本继续保持。

Fun and chaotic in the best way. Lots of disaster combinations to try. Easy to pick up and enjoyable

это самая лучшая игра в моей жизни особено мне нравится война гражданская война и авиаудары