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Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
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.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-13.
“Started as a clown, got chased by a dog for a while, found a sedan, crashed into a wall, got a new sedan, drifted my new sedan into a horde of zombies then hit a lamppost and died instantly”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“No clue what I'm doing. Met up with my friend, Liam. Got scared he was a psychopath for killing Chris, found an axe on Chris' body and then believe Liam's story. Drove into the middle of a city, I then got harassed by dogs. Respawned as Liam (In the middle of a forest, mind…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“It's the apocalyptic survival game I've been dreaming of. The hotkeys are insane, but when you get them down, you can play the game like typing an essay.”
— a player, Steam review · 199 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-08-02 20:25 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Fix - add sounds back
The update deleted CC-sounds, so I added it again from the public repo. If you started the game without it, it would have reverted, and you'll need to go to the options menu and select CC-sounds again
0.H Herbert Stable Release is HERE!
It's here! a month after 0.H Herbert has released fully on GitHub, I have had the chance to sit down and add all of the steam code necessary to run workshop and other things that have already been int
Workshop mod loading hotfix
- fixed folder path for steam workshop mods - fixed workshop id for in-repo mods so they don't show up in workshop upload list
Workshop is live!
You can now upload and download mods via Steam Workshop! I made it as simple as possible - you create a mod that the game can see as a mod ( see the documentation on creating mods on the repo ) and yo
Disable Cloud Config
There are some issues with having configs saved in the cloud, such as not being able to delete and reset them easily, and also if someone has multiple platforms they play on with different keybindings
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Adventure, RPG |
| Player tags | Traditional Roguelike · Sandbox · RPG · Survival · Zombies · Rogue-like · Adventure · 2D · Aliens · Horror · Exploration · Sci-fi (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America |
| Achievements | 39 |
| Estimated owners | 100,000 – 200,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://cataclysmdda.org |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10