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The Next World
Welcome to The Next World - a strategic visual novel telling the story of a crashed colony ship and its ragged group of survivors, trying to make a new life on the wrong planet. Craft plans, make decisions, and manage your colony's limited resources in a desperate fight to stay alive.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28.
“Ok, i like the idea of this game and the characters but i found a glitch where i get no new vehicles after scavaging them, the audio fails sometimes and of course the achivments are not working. Although i enjoyed my playthrough in normal can't recomend such a mess of a game.”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-28.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
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TNW: Rocketship RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT
Hello all, and thanks for reading! Today I have the distinct pleasure of being able to announce the release of our new project: https://store.steampowered.com/app/864080/The_Next_World_Rocketship_DLC/
Rocketship DLC drops on the 13th!
Our shiny new DLC, TNW: Rocketship, will release on the 13th of July! The store page is now up, linked below, so you can check out some sweet screenshots and add it to your wishlist! Obviously wishlis
Rocketship DLC beta - We need testers!
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11467978/75294c91cd8cfb5351b37c4136fc6efaa88a1089.png If you're interested in the Rocketship DLC, we just reached beta, and we requir
Choose your DLC
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11467978/9714306e3d8cbe51bca3a16611e4e4837275d06c.png I bring an important message to everyone who enjoyed The Next World and Planeta
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-28.
| Genres | Adventure, Casual, Indie |
| Player tags | Adventure · Casual · Indie · Sci-fi · Visual Novel · Strategy (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English |
| Achievements | 37 |
| Official site | http://thenextworldgame.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows XP Processor: 1 Ghz Memory: 512 MB RAM Graphics: DirectX or OpenGL compatible card DirectX: Version 9.0c Storage: 500 MB available space