Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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The epitome of a modern traditional roguelike: with turn-based play and a RPG-like skill progression system, it hearkens back to some of the major aspects of this genre. This game has an incredible depth, with a deep inventory system, vehicles and boats, NPCs with their own stories, and more.

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is a traditional roguelike, sandbox and rpg game developed by CleverRaven and published by KorGgenT.
Released on March 31st 2023 is available on Windows and Linux in 8 languages: English, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Spanish - Latin America.

It has received 451 reviews of which 417 were positive and 34 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.6 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 19.50€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead into these genres:

Traditional Roguelike Sandbox RPG Survival Zombies Rogue-like Adventure 2D Aliens Horror Exploration Sci-fi Singleplayer Moddable Modern Pixel Graphics Immersive Sim Post-apocalyptic Story Rich Transhumanism

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 10
Linux
  • OS: Ubuntu 20.04

User reviews & Ratings

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Oct. 2025
There's really no need to buy when there's a free version, but it's nice to have my total playtime recorded. It's my favorite game for a good randomised survival story. You'll get used to dying. Takes a lot of characters to learn the keybinds and game mechanics. In my longest save, I've been building a dinosaur zoo and farming triffids with my character Regina George. 10/10
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May 2025
A very simulationist zombie game. very good, very fun, don't forget to try out the latest versions that are released by the main creators for free, this is just for support of the dev team Now update the steam edition from time to time dev's, I know it may be difficult inbetween your 50 trillionth micro update of zombified kiwi generation, but I know you can do it at-least once every six months.
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May 2025
I've hundreds and hundreds of hours off of steam. This game is a punishing, hateful mess of impossible nightmares, waiting to savage you the moment you hold down your autoattack a little too long. You can become a bionically-enhanced salamander, sleepless in a tornado of flame, shooting lasers from your crystal magic nose, with a tiny cabin that's full of guns you'll never use but couldn't resist filling up wall-to-wall. You can look within yourself as the world crushes down into nothing, and embrace evolution in the warp storm, ending the you that exists immediately. It's great. I'm saying I like this game.
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March 2025
I played for about 30 minutes just to look at the controls, I booted up a completely random character and tried figuring out how to navigate my inventory. I found out that I had a cellphone on me, and proceeded to access it, curious with what I could do. I saw it had an option to play games on it, so I clicked that, then in a list of a bunch of games I selected snake. I proceeded to play snake within the zombie game. 10/10 would play snake again.
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Feb. 2025
The game is Murphys Law- the game. 2 hours is not enough to find out if the game is for you or not. Download it for free on the official website and then decide if you want to support the developer.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is currently priced at 19.50€ on Steam.

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.50€ on Steam.

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead received 417 positive votes out of a total of 451 achieving a rating of 8.57.
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Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead was developed by CleverRaven and published by KorGgenT.

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is not playable on MacOS.

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is playable and fully supported on Linux.

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is a single-player game.

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead does not currently offer any DLC.

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead does not support Steam Remote Play.

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.

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Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
19.50€ Buy Now
Rating
8.6
417
34
Game modes
Features
Online players
27
Developer
CleverRaven
Publisher
KorGgenT
Release 31 Mar 2023
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