Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead 2013

Is it still worth playing?

A community developed roguelike begun by Whales and first released in 2013, set in New England in 2027 after a catastrophe killed most of the population. A sample called XE-037 reanimates the dead and causes a zombie outbreak, while portal storms alter the weather and spawn monsters and temporary dungeons. Surviving it takes many systems at once. On a procedurally generated map you manage hunger, thirst, morale, illness, temperature and sleep, and you scavenge, hunt, build shelters and farm with seasonal growth. Crafting comes from recipes learned in books, and covers walls, wells and vehicles. Before all that, character creation sets a profession, traits and skills, which improve through practice or reading. Because so many survival systems depend on each other, every run still sets its own problem today.