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| Original author(s) | Whales |
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| Developer(s) | Kevin Granade & community |
| Initial release | 0.1 / 26 February 2013[1] |
| Stable release | 0.E.3 "Ellison"
/ 9 December 2020 |
| Written in | C++, ASCII with ncurses, Tiles with SDL |
| Platform | Microsoft Windows, Linux, OS X, IOS, Android |
| Type | Single-player Roguelike, survival horror |
| License | CC BY-SA 3.0[2] |
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, or CDDA, is an open-source survival horror roguelike video game. Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is a fork of the original game Cataclysm.[3]The game is freely downloadable on the game's website and the source code is also freely available on the project's GitHub repository under the CC BY-SA Creative Commons license. The game is currently largely developed by its community. [4][2] Rock, Paper, Shotgun named CDDA one of "The 50 Best Free Games on PC" in 2016.[5]
The game is text-based, though alternative graphical tilesets are available. Prior to playing, the player generates a world, which can be shared between different characters. The player then creates a character and is placed into one of many possible starting scenarios. The player is then free to do whatever they please. This includes both things required for day-to-day survival such as scavenging, hunting, and finding shelter, as well as larger goals such as farming, installing bionics, making and repairing vehicles, and constructing homes.