- Unity engine update! - 13 October 2025
Hello everyone, Due to a Unity engine security issue, we’re releasing a Hotfix update for the game. You can read more about the security issue here: https://unity.com/security/sept-2025-01
- Play a futuristic Mech Wargame "MECHABELLUM" now! - 26 September 2024
Hello Survivors! We have something new to share with fans of sci-fi! Paradox Interactive just released a new, futuristic mech wargame! Check out this trailer! Mechabellum is a tactical wargame where you gain victory by adapting your strategy and outthinking your opponents. You command varied, mechanized armies in battle against AI or other humans, customize your units and place them strategically on the battlefield to watch them destroy your enemies. https://store.steampowered.com/app/669330/Mechabellum/ We hope you’ll give it a shot and meet us on the battlefield!
- Free game - Frostpunk meets The Last of Us in apocalyptic city builder - 16 November 2023
Survival strategy games like Frostpunk offer a glimpse of the fantastic tension that comes from holding out in a devastated post-apocalyptic world. Surviving the Aftermath captures that essence and blends it with the ever-present hostility of The Last of Us and The Walking Dead, along with colony sims like Rimworld, to create a harsh, punishing city builder that's yours as a free game, but only if you're quick. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: City-builder Surviving the Aftermath has left Early Access, and will get expansions Post-apocalyptic city-building game Surviving the Aftermath leaves early access next month Post-apocalyptic city builder Surviving the Aftermath's new patch changes everything
- Surviving the Aftermath - Dev Diary #25 - Rebirth DLC - 16 March 2023
Greetings survivors! Our third DLC is now available! “Rebirth” offers a new way to literally transform your colony into a post-apocalyptic paradise! Clear the waters and purify the soil with new terraforming discoveries to bring back the once green fields and lush forests. The journey is not without its perils though, as a new threat is on the rise. A mysterious fungal disease called the blight has infected both animals and plants, creating new challenges for the player. But their wild mutations also hold the key to victory! IMAGE: Surviving the Aftermath: Rebirth The DLC includes a modular Blight Lab, which allows players to advance in the new “Discoveries” tech tree. This can be used to unlock new buildings and permanent improvements for your fight against the blight, eventually turning the threat into an advantage. Seeing the colony’s grim and hostile beginnings turn into a beautiful…
- Surviving the Aftermath - Announcing Rebirth DLC - 7 March 2023
For the longest time, you strove to survive the aftermath on planet Earth. Now, thanks to your knowledge, skills, and leadership, you can finally look forward to a new chapter for humankind. “Rebirth” is your mantra, your goal, the dream that will make you overcome old and new challenges, for your survivors and all humanity... Greetings, survivors! We’re almost ready to release something we’ve wanted to share with you for quite some time - our third DLC, Rebirth! It features an all-new way to literally transform your colony via terraforming the very soil it’s built on as well as a new, ever-present threat. Surviving the Aftermath: Rebirth launches on March 16th for PC, Xbox One, and Playstation4 at a suggested retail price of 14.99 USD / 11.99 GBP / 14.99 EUR. More details are to come in the upcoming weeks, but here are its core features: The Blight: from threat to resource After decade…
- Surviving the Aftermath - Shattered Hope DLC - Patch Notes - 22 November 2022
Greeting survivors! We have just released our patch for the “Shattered Hope” DLC—including some bigger changes as well. Here we will go through them with some brief explanations as to why they have been made. As usual, the full patch notes can be found at the end of this post. DIFFICULTY REWORKED We have gone and reduced the DLC’s overall difficulty in many different ways. If you look at the Hope bar for example, you can see that it looks a bit different than before. The “safe zone” where no negative effects can happen is larger and the Hope levels have been adjusted accordingly. This means there are now bigger and clearer changes between the levels, but also much more time before Hope becomes a serious issue. This allows players to divide their attention to other things, without Hope constantly demanding actions by causing Anguish. We have also done multiple smaller adjustments to bala…
- Surviving the Aftermath - Dev Diary #24 - Shattered Hope DLC - 3 November 2022
Greetings survivors! Our latest DLC “Shattered Hope” has just been released and we are excited to shed light on its features. Brand new challenges await as fading hope risks the entire colony’s survival. Other improvements include a new moon rock disaster, an ability to boost production with overtime and being able to hold special feasts! A new questline adds interesting buildings and resources to the mix, giving Surviving the Aftermath even more variety than before. IMAGE: Surviving the Aftermath: Shattered Hope Let’s first talk about the Moon and the features tied to it. As previously established, the Earth’s Moon shattered at the start of the cataclysm years ago and now the consequences of that can be felt in the colonies. Falling pieces of the Moon can be seen plummeting from the skies at night. However, these moon rocks are not just another hazard but can be gathered and turned int…
- Haunted Wasteland - 25 October 2022
Hello survivors! It's the spookiest time of year, and we are excited to bring you a free in-game event on Steam and Epic that includes Halloween themed decorations and buildings. This also includes a free patch of some gameplay fixes, such as improvement to the day and night meter to display when night starts and ends, as well as some graphics and balance adjustments like increased fiber production in the fields. What better way to prepare for the moon shattering DLC Shattered Hope that comes out the week after? The event visuals will include: Halloween themed hats and masks for colonists. Two new decoration "buildings": A Scarecrow A Cauldron full of nuclear liquids Buildings with lights will change their appearance with more Halloween themed lights: Regular lights/lanterns in buildings in the game will now turn into Halloween themed lanterns, such as jack-o'-lanterns Halloween Decorat…
- Surviving the Aftermath - Announcing Shattered Hope DLC - 18 October 2022
Hello survivors! We are pleased to announce the new DLC for Surviving the Aftermath. Shattered Hope introduces the Shattered Moon calamity, giving players the ability to boost resource production and the task of maintaining survivor’s hope. Surviving the Aftermath: Shattered Hope launches on November 3rd for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC at a suggested retail price of 9.99 USD / 7.99 GBP / 9.99 EUR. During the apocalypse, the Moon was destroyed and now the consequences of that are showering down from the sky in an unforeseen disaster. By gathering resources from Moon Rock deposits and coming together as a people, the survivors must find hope to proceed and prosper. Shattered Hope focuses around increasing resource production in the colony while attempting to keep up Hope for the colonists - otherwise the new Anguish condition can cause trouble for them and the entire colony. Surviving…
- Change notes - “New Alliances PC patch” - 26 August 2022
Base game General Added 11 new achievements: Base game: Doomsday is canceled - Complete the Doomsday Bunker Project. Choo-choo! - Escape the harsh winter by fixing the train in Cold Rush. Finnished - Survive in the Endless Winter scenario for 100 days. Tailored to fit - Survive until day 100 in a custom game. Customized calamities - Secret! New Alliances DLC: Undercover - Complete all four covert mission types. Best friends forever - Ally with a society. Binary world view - Secret! Diplomatic quarter - Have four embassies built at the same time. Dynamic Duo - Secret! Federation forever - Form the federation. Improved build menu performance dramatically. Fixed an issue that prevented loading a save if a resource box was out of colony bounds and the game was saved while a carrier was moving to pick up the box. Gameplay Replaced the “trade offers available” text in the society menu with “t…
- Surviving the Aftermath - Dev Diary - New Alliances DLC - 16 June 2022
Dev Diary #23 - New Alliances DLC Greetings survivors! “New Alliances” is here and we can finally share more details about what it means for Surviving the Aftermath. We’ve already teased its contents a bit, so let’s dig deeper into what makes it special. Society requests, alliances and federation add a fresh dimension to societies, while roaming bandits, covert missions and a new powerful Rival faction challenge you in new ways. IMAGE: Keyart New Alliances adds a new, more dynamic layer to the world map and how you interact with societies. Instead of just having nice trade partners, you can now befriend and eventually ally with them with the ultimate goal of creating a federation! To do this, you must help your soon-to-be allies by completing requests and assisting them against various threats in the wasteland. But if making friends isn’t your thing, you can raid their convoys for resou…
- Dev Diary Teaser - New Alliances - 2 June 2022
Greetings survivors old and new! We’re very excited to reveal what we’ve been doing amidst all the updates up to this point. It’s the first part of our Season Pass and will be released very soon. Here are some of its key features which gives the game’s sandbox a whole new dimension with more replayability and new challenges! Surviving the Aftermath: ”New Alliances” adds an in-depth layer to world map societies and a new, powerful rival faction as your adversary. Help your neighbours deal with new threats and gain unique rewards while uniting the wasteland under a single banner! Or use your specialists to conduct covert missions inside other societies for your own gain… Form the federation Assist societies and complete requests to gain enough reputation to ally with them. Build embassies to unlock unique permanent bonuses and buildings for your colony. Help your alliance population grow…
- Dev Diary - Free Update #3 - 22 March 2022
Greetings once again, survivors! With the Lunar New Year celebrations passed, we’re back with a new and quite a hefty update. It includes the already teased new game mode “Scenarios” with two winter-themed experiences along with a ton of other improvements to logistics, statistics and so on. But wait, there’s more! In addition to this new twist on the familiar gameplay, we’re also bringing you Custom Game mode. It allows players to really tweak the experience how they want with dozens of new settings from a very laid-back experience to a pure horror show. Scenarios allow you to dive into Surviving the Aftermath’s sandbox with new themes and twists on the basic formula, adding more replayability to the game. Some offer a more compact and narrative-driven experience with heavily modified rules while others throw a wrench in the works on how the long-form game plays out. This might mean a…
- New Free Update Teaser - 16 March 2022
Hello, survivors! The team here has been hard at work since our last free update in January, and we now want to share with you what’s coming next. We are working on our third free update that will add new ways to play our game and bring you some of the most requested features and improvements. We’ll share all the details once the update is closer to release (very soon) but here’s what you can expect: Eternal Winter Scenario: survive a permanent winter. Cold Rush Scenario: your colony starts in the middle of the map, in harsh winter conditions. You have to explore old abandoned structures, gather resources and find a way to escape before running out of time. Custom Game: new starting conditions (birth rate, terrain flatness, lakes, number of available specialists, and more). Map Seed Selection: now you can choose the map seed to play your favorite maps (or the community's favorite maps)…
- Dev Diary - Free Update #2 - 25 January 2022
Happy Year of the Tiger, survivors! We’re continuing our free 2022 updates with a celebration of the Lunar New Year. This includes new cosmetic buildings along with a new system, which allows you to change how your colony looks like in a flash! It’s not all tigers and fireworks, though, as we’re including quality-of-life improvements to colony combat, how people choose where they live and more. Buildings with and without Lunar New Year pack enabled The Lunar New Year content pack includes a banner stand to display your colony flag (also available as a non-themed version), a tiger flag symbol, a red Double Lantern, a mighty Scrap Tiger statue and a cute Waving Cat statue for you to build. Regular torches and lamps are replaced with Lunar-themed versions for the duration of the event. You might also spot some of the colonists wearing festive hats. And last but not least, the Fireworks Lau…
- Changelog - “Free Update 2” - 25th of January 2022 - 25 January 2022
Greetings, Survivors! It’s time for the next free update, which brings quite a few new things to the game. It’s the Year of the Tiger, and to celebrate it we’re giving you several cosmetic buildings, lights and even hats! We’ve improved the lives of your colony in a few intense ways, like colonists running away from a fight and guards being more effective. We’ve also included some quality of life updates for you as a player, like the return of the feedback button and that colonists will now try to move closer to where they are assigned to work which will lead to shorter commutes and improvements to the AI. General Added Lunar New Year content to the game. Celebrate the Year of the Tiger with colorful lanterns, impressive statues and fireworks! 4 new cosmetic buildings include a colony banner stand, two statues and a fireworks launcher to light up the night. 6 cosmetic variants to decora…
- Dev Diary - Free Update #1 - 4 January 2022
Happy wintery greetings, survivors We’re back at work in snowy Finland and ramping up development for a fresh new year! The first of the free updates in 2022 includes a dedicated repair and demolish button to make those tasks faster without a need to select each building individually. Victories in gate combat are now rewarded with loot left behind by the defeated bandits. Something that has been requested a lot is restoring rare metal production to the colony via a new late-game tech. It allows you to upgrade the Metal Auto-Extractor into a Magnetic Separator with production options for regular or rare metal production. We’ve also updated over a dozen building models to be more distinctive and easier to recognize in your colony. A new “Very Hard” difficulty option has been added for those looking to really challenge themselves. It starts you in a very barren climate with limited resourc…
- Free Update 1 - Changelog - 4 January 2022
Changelog - “Free Update 1” - 4th of January 022 Version number Steam / Epic / Paradox Plaza: 1.21.3.1473 General Added Demolish and Repair modes to the game. These modes allow you to set buildings to be Demolished or Repaired faster. With a keyboard and mouse these can be accessed by selecting the button from the bottom left corner and then selecting each building you wish to either Demolish or Repair. With a controller these can be accessed by pressing the button that controls the camera and then pressing the respective buttons visible on the screen. The modes are exited the same way as you would cancel placing a building. Gate Combat now gives you rewards if you win the combat. Resources will be given both from winning the actual Gate Combat and from winning the combat if the bandits breach the Gate. Added a new tech to all ideologies to the game that allows you to upgrade your Metal…
- Holiday Greetings - 23 December 2021
Before our team heads to a holiday break we wanted to thank you, our fantastic community, for all the support you have given us during the past year! We also take the chance and recap some of the highlights from the year 2021 and in the end also take a peek into the future of what is coming in 2022. Recap In 2021 we had eight major updates and many smaller ones in between. The update pace was a little less frequent as before, but it helped to produce more meaningful content to each update Reworked colony map generation to cluster deposits more together and distribute different soil types in a more balanced way around the colony. This helps to give more clear directions where to expand from the starting area. The new outposts system and diversity of different outposts were added to make the world map part of the production chain and resource logistics. Colony alarm enables players to cho…
- City-builder Surviving the Aftermath has left Early Access, and will get expansions - 16 November 2021
The latest patch for post-apocalyptic city-building game Surviving the Aftermath moves it out of Early Access and into full launch, and with that comes a raft of new content that fills out the story of the nuclear apocalypse - and a challenge to prepare your band of survivors for the next one. Along with the launch, Paradox has announced an expansion pass for Surviving the Aftermath, which includes the first three major expansions for the game. For now, however, there's plenty more to do even if you've been playing Surviving the Aftermath since its Early Access version debuted: you'll be able to hunt for clues that shed light on the nuclear disaster that led to the downfall of civilisation, and get to work preparing your population for the next disaster. "Surviving the Aftermath had 20 content updates throughout Early Access, all of which incorporated player feedback," says game directo…
