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Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.

Surviving the Aftermath is a strategy, simulation and city builder game developed by Iceflake Studios and published by Paradox Interactive.
Released on November 16th 2021 is available only on Windows in 8 languages: English, French, German, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Spanish - Latin America.

It has received 4,363 reviews of which 3,084 were positive and 1,279 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.9 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 0.90€ on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified Surviving the Aftermath into these genres:

Strategy Simulation City Builder Post-apocalyptic Survival Colony Sim Base-Building Building Singleplayer Management Open World Exploration War Tactical Difficult Atmospheric Isometric Early Access Multiplayer Resource Management

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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 Home 64 bit
  • Processor: Intel® iCore™ i5-2500K or AMD® AMD® FX 6350
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 580 or AMD® Radeon™ HD 7870
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 4 GB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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April 2025
I came to Surviving the Aftermath after playing and really enjoying Surviving Mars, and I’ve got to say—I’m loving this game too. I jumped straight into the Complete Edition, so I can’t speak for the base game on its own, but with all the DLCs included, the experience feels rich, layered, and constantly engaging. I’ve seen some negative reviews about the DLCs, but honestly, I don’t get it. Each one adds something meaningful: new systems, new challenges, and more depth to the survival and management gameplay. It feels like the game keeps evolving and pushing you to adapt, which keeps things fresh and interesting. One thing I especially like is how every decision matters. You’re constantly balancing survival, resource management, and exploration while also dealing with unpredictable events. It really captures that feeling of rebuilding from the ground up after a collapse. If you’re a fan of colony sims or survival strategy games, and especially if you liked Surviving Mars, I think Surviving the Aftermath (with all the DLCs) is absolutely worth it.
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March 2025
Honestly this game is pretty good, I enjoy city builder/colony sim games and this is a pretty good example of how one should be. It get's a little janky towards endgame, some of the quests aren't rewarding enough to justify spending time doing them but at that point you already have your infrastructure set up to where they're not necessary whatsoever. I wish the expeditions were better. It gets kinda boring in the sense where there's not many new things to discover and I'm speaking with only 20 hours of experience. I recommend buying this game when it's on sale, there's other games that I would say have a better endgame / continuance to it that are worth it at full price. TL;DR: Buy on sale, solid game.
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Feb. 2025
Behind this game is a enjoyable experience... Until you install all the DLC. Then it becomes 10x more stressful. So think about things before you DLC.
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Nov. 2024
This review is more of a warning to those who want to purchase this game just because of the screenshots or gameplay description on this page. So, pros: 1. not bad music, visual component (although the same illustrations get wildly boring after a while) 2. interesting ideas that could potentially make this game a success Cons: 1. an awful lot of bugs at launch, this clearly hindered sales and eventually led to the game being abandoned by the devs, although most of the initial game-breaking bugs were fixed 2. balance problems: the developers added a lot of things to the game, but not all of them should be used at all or would be interesting to use because of outright failures in game design 3. almost complete lack of replayability, uninteresting late game except for achievement hunting 4. all DLC (except for New Alliances) are half-assed and rather hinder the game than vice versa. TLDR: if you are a professional player of city-building or economic management games and want to diversify your diet - you can buy it at a discount on sale (just don't take DLC). If you just want to play a post-apocalyptic city-building game - better look for better options.
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June 2024
a bit of a learning curve with all the resources that need managed to keep settlers alive, BUT that is what the game is about! great for those that love building up a town and managing: commerce, food, medicine, rifles, etc
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Frequently Asked Questions

Surviving the Aftermath is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam.

Surviving the Aftermath is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 29.99€ on Steam.

Surviving the Aftermath received 3,084 positive votes out of a total of 4,363 achieving a rating of 6.90.
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Surviving the Aftermath was developed by Iceflake Studios and published by Paradox Interactive.

Surviving the Aftermath is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Surviving the Aftermath is not playable on MacOS.

Surviving the Aftermath is not playable on Linux.

Surviving the Aftermath is a single-player game.

There are 4 DLCs available for Surviving the Aftermath. Explore additional content available for Surviving the Aftermath on Steam.

Surviving the Aftermath does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Surviving the Aftermath does not support Steam Remote Play.

Surviving the Aftermath 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 Surviving the Aftermath.

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Surviving the Aftermath PEGI 7
29.99€ -97% 29.99€ 0.90€
6.9
3,084
1,279
Game modes
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Online players
96
Developer
Iceflake Studios
Publisher
Paradox Interactive
Release 16 Nov 2021
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