An alternative America. In another 2025.
Here, the government is non-existent and society, struggling against pollution, stagnation, catastrophic climate change and gang warfare, is at the point of collapse. You are a highway warrior for hire, taking on contracts to keep the few laws that exist, in check. In the game you battle against roving gangs to control the dangerous roads and earn a living in these dangerous times. Tool up your vehicle with a range of weapons and upgrades in this game of both action and strategy that features a unique time-dilating command mode to help you make tactical decisions as metal crashes metal.
Right now you can get the game for 50% off - but also you can get the Developer Archive DLC for 50% off too - which has a folder full of normally developer-only builds and videos that gives you an unprecedented glimpse into the making of a video game, and also has PDFs of the original 1988 game rules/setting, the expansion rules of White Line Fever and the Golgotha Run PDF!
(As well as Dark Future, there’s a ton of amazing titles in the Skulls Sale 2021, so you’ll want to check it out too!)
Want to know more about Dark Future and the game we made? Here’s a few links that will warp your reality;
- We wrote a big article about the ‘car combat’ genre in films, books - and our course - games.
- We also did a whole bunch of podcast episodes about the game around release in 2016;
- Part 1 (history of car combat genre)
- Part 2 (about the board game)
- Part 3 (about the video game)
- Part 4 (meet some of the dev team of the video game)
- Part 5 (interview with Dark Future writer, James Swallow)
- Finally; we did a play through of the digital and physical games as part of 2020’s Digital Tabletop Fest where we also got to chat with Graeme Davis, one of the board game’s original developers!
