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Surviving the aftermath xbox review update#
The developers and designers seem pretty active on their official forums and many posts shed light into their thought process relating to a recent update or tasty morsel of things to come. Not much info outside of twitter posts describing new and upcoming updates, an official road map would be nice to see. Since the 1st update in November 2019, they have kept a pace one can only describe as regimented in nature delivering content on a almost perfect monthly scheduled as seen below. What they lack in graphics they make up in, well, content, keep reading. Much like play time mentioned above graphics are nice, but do not by themselves make a game, I would rather be ocean deep with 8bit game-play then splashing around in shallow puddle of photo realism.
Surviving the aftermath xbox review full#
This game also sports a full day/night cycle and the environment changes drastically during catastrophic events. For the style of game this is, the slightly pixelated and dreary pallet, work well with the lighting from the burning barrels to add life and feeling to the game.
It’s not bad, dreary setting lends itself to greens, browns and grays but they manage to add color, lighting and special effects that are pretty cool, like the lightening storm i experienced on day 36 pictured above. Not going to stretch the limits of DLSS 2.0 or RTX and won’t give you emotional goosebumps overwhelming you into tears of joy viewing this in 4K. Other then a few sentences explaining the end of modern civilization and the need to rebuild, your motivation is a deep rooted sense of preservation, survival and rebirth, built into the core of humanity. I am a firm believer that play time is not a meter for how good a game is, that’s how you end up with 1000 hour repetitive, open world, mini map icon collectors and a decade of remakes with different outfits, looking at you Assassins Creed. I can easily see 100 hours of playtime at the moment and more to come in the future, again, more on this later. Is it perfect, no, but the balance is there and the content seems pretty solid. The gradual progression, the well spaced random encounters, light but definitely satisfying micro management, exploration and fairly “competent” ish AI, more on that later, have made this game a real joy to play. At the end of the day, it’s fun, really fun, 6 hour gaming session lasting to 3 am fun, I’ve logged more then 12 hours in 2 days. Yes this has been done, one thousand times and counting, but, dare I say, none have seemed to accomplish what Iceflake has achieved with this game. Yes, this is a concept that we are all very familiar with, many, many games have fallen into this style of raging nuclear devastation on a global scale and pulled at the cold war shoe strings of a begone era reminding us all that, in a blink of an eye, life can change. Surviving the Aftermath is a post apocalyptic, nuclear in nature, colony survival game with heavy emphasis on random encounters, events and gradual technology led progression.
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