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❤ Gameplay Overview

You take on the role of the leader of a band of merciless marauders, tasked with building up your organization and extorting, pillaging, and conquering the last remnants of civilization in the post-apocalyptic wasteland. The core gameplay loop centers around managing and expanding your raider operation.

❤ Character Management and Progression

You can customize and develop your individual raiders by allocating skill points to improve their combat capabilities, such as damage, hit chance, and critical chance. Raiders can specialize in different roles, each with unique skills and abilities. As they level up and gain experience from combat, you can further optimize their stats and unlock new perks. Equipping your raiders with an assortment of weapons, armor, and gear found, looted, or crafted adds another layer of character progression and customization.

❤ Base Building and Resource Management

Your hideout serves as the home base for your raiders. You can expand and upgrade it over time by constructing various buildings and facilities, each providing unique bonuses and mechanics. Effectively managing the resources required for construction and maintenance, such as food, water, and scrap materials, is crucial to sustaining and growing your operation.

❤ Wasteland Exploration and Conquest

The procedurally-generated post-apocalyptic world is yours to navigate and conquer. You must identify valuable targets like settlements and industries, and decide whether to extort them, attack and pillage them, or capture them outright. Establishing control over settlements allows you to extract ongoing resources and tributes, but also makes them vulnerable to counterattacks.

❤ Combat System

Combat is turn-based, with your raiders facing off against various enemies. Each raider has a set of combat abilities and actions, and maintaining a balanced party composition with melee and ranged fighters is often key to success. Weapons can be customized and leveled up, providing tangible improvements in combat effectiveness. While the combat system has been criticized by some as feeling simplistic or repetitive, the developer has indicated a willingness to improve and expand this aspect of the gameplay.

❤ Player Agency and Moral Choices

A notable aspect of the experience is the freedom to embrace a truly villainous role. The game actively encourages and rewards players for engaging in morally questionable actions, such as extortion, kidnapping, cannibalism, and the use of weapons of mass destruction. This opportunity to play as the antagonist, rather than the heroic protagonist, is a key draw for many players.