Wastelander
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Wastelander is a turn-based strategy game where you must survive and escape from a desolate planet ravaged by powerful storms. Build a colony from nothing, find and unlock unique buildings and re-activate powerful relics to protect yourself. Will you survive and get off the planet?
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In Wastelander, you must build a colony in order to survive having crashlanded on a desolate alien planet after your ship was pulled into the atmosphere by a mysterious force. Barren and devoid of life, you must build a colony and explore the planet, uncovering the technology and secrets of an ancient civilization long gone.Time is of the essence, however. The planet is ravaged by increasingly powerful and destructive storms that threaten to wipe out your entire colony. You only have a limited time before the storms will become too powerful to defend against. You must escape before it's too late. Can you find a means of defending yourself from the storms while you try to escape this barren world? Will you unlock the secrets of the wasteland planet and escape before it's too late?Wastelander is a turn-based strategy game where every turn counts. To survive, you must plan and make the right decisions as you expand your colony and explore the planet in search of technological remnants of the ancient civilization that once inhabited the now barren wasteland.Balancing exploration with expansion and defence is key to survival. You will need to ensure your colony has enough power to function but also keep pressing forward with your efforts to explore, while minimizing the damage the relentless storms cause. With each passing storm increasing in intensity and destruction, your basic defences can’t hold out forever.You will need to prioritise what to focus on based on your current situation, deciding between searching for new technologies and a way off the planet or setting up defences for the impending storm. But sooner or later sacrifices will need to be made and you will need to choose what structures to save and what you let the storms destroy.Starting with nothing but the scattered remains of what was once your spaceship, you must begin to build your colony, expanding bit by bit. In the beginning, you will only have a limited amount of basic buildings available to you, to get your colony started. As you explore and uncover ancient relics, deployable technology and new blueprints you will be able to build more advanced and complex structures to aid you in your mission.Along with buildings, you also have abilities and items to help you, including scanners and drones to reveal unexplored areas, storm dispersers to temporarily stop the storms from striking certain areas or buildings, terraforming to change the terrain and dynamite to make pathways through mountainous areas. Every building, item and ability has its specific use and will help you escape, if and when used wisely.In order to survive, you will need to master the wasteland. Understanding the dangers you face and how to defend against them is key to your survival. With each building, deployment, ability and item having its unique uses and mastering their distinct advantages and disadvantages while learning to adapt to availability will help you immensely. Wastelander is easy to pick up but difficult to master.Turn-based strategy gameplay that is easy to learn but hard to masterRandomly generated, seeded maps create infinite replay value and endless new challenges.Play random maps, on a range of difficulty levels, or compete with other players’ high scores on the Daily Challenge seed.Use scanners and drones to uncover resources and abandoned supply drops that you can use to expand your colony.Discover and construct defences to protect your colony from destructive storms.Upgrade existing buildings and unlock new ones as you explore maps shrouded in mystery.Use powerful abilities granted by alien technology to allow you easier exploration of the map or even change the terrain to your advantage.Unlock the secrets of the alien ruins to improve your technology and unlock a path to survival.
Patch Notes & Announcements(36)
MAJOR1.0.5 Controller Overhaul and QoL Patch
CONTROLLER/STEAMDECKswitched to a software cursor instead of hardware due to input lag + cursor invisibility issues with on some Linux distros and steamdeckadded support for joystick sensitivity, pan
MINORAnimation Overhaul and Bug Fixes
VISUALSThe main beef of this patch has been to re-write our animation system. The one we had in place was from early development and was never set up to support all animation timings. As a result more
HOTFIXBug fixes and stability improvements
Animator bug fix This one is a little complicated but there was a bug where building sprites and animators were being reset when you right-clicked or hovered over tiles. This will likely have wide ran
HOTFIXFirst post-launch stability + QoL patch
Welcome back! This is just a quick post-launch QoL + stability patch. To everyone that reported issues through discord and steam discussions thank you so much for helping to improving the game! Endles
MAJORWastelander 1.0 is Live!
Wastelander 1.0 Has Arrived! It's been a long road but we're finally ready to remove the Early Access tag from Wastelander. With the 1.0 release comes a fairly large amount of QoL changes and improvem
MAJORUnlock/Level System + v1.0 Release date!
Release Date We're finally nearing v1.0 and releasing the game from Early Access! Our planned release date is July 12 and we'll be working hard on polish and release prep right up until that date! Lev
MAJORMajor visual update! New Animations / VFX.
Ability / Item / Augment trigger Animations! This is a major milestone on the road to release. The game desperately needed animations to make it feel more "alive" and we've finally made some major pro
MINORNew Trailer is live!
As we continue prepping for launch from Early Access, we'll be doing more social media posting and promotional work as well. Here's a brand new Trailer for Wastelander that's just gone live to our You
MINORTutorial updates and polish
This patch contains another round of updates and improvements to the tutorial. It now contains videos to show specific gameplay elements as well as reduced amounts of text. Please let us know if you s
MINORSFX Overhaul, Lots of Bug Fixes and Polish
Sound Effects Overhaul The game now has more than just 3 sound effects. A ton of abilities and interactions now have unique sounds. Menus, UI elements, and several other dialogues that didn't previous
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