Rebuild Society In A Post-Climate Change World In Floodland, Demo Available On Steam Next Fest

Floodland is an upcoming survival city-builder that posits a question: how would you rebuild society after climate change wrecks the world with rising sea levels?

In Floodland, you pick a faction with various worldviews, and start building a society by scouring resources. Over time, your little encampment will begin to re-learn the tech of the past and slowly reform into a society.

How this society is ruled is up to you. You can swing either full equality or go on a dictatorship, or anywhere in between via a law tree where you unlock various laws and edicts as you progress as a society.

Floodland mechanically will feel reminiscent of Frostpunk, and you’d be right. While this isn’t an 11-bit Studio game, the developer Vile Monarch are founded by ex-11-bit Studio devs that worked on This War Of Mine. Though one of the game’s composer, Piotr Musiał, has contributed on Frostpunk.

(Vile Monarch previously released the weed growing simulator, Weedcraft Inc.)

If you like the idea of a city builder but set in a post-apocalyptic (and the apocalypse here is climate change) world, Floodland should be something on your radar.

The Steam Next Fest demo gives you a glimpse of the early game, where you must scavenge plastics and other resources and slowly build up a base of operations. The full game will have procedural maps, so no two playthroughs are the same.

You can try out the Floodland Steam Next Fest demo here.

Floodland will be out on November 15 on PC via Steam.