Afterworld has been revealed! It’s the brand new post-apocalyptic Grand Strategy Game from Paradox Development Studio (those behind Crusader Kings III and Hearts of Iron IV). In this video I go through 10 minutes of official Afterworld gameplay footage in detail, breaking down what each system actually does. The footage is from their press release assets.
The fall happened in our future, not our past. The first dev diary, also released today, confirms that Afterworld is set roughly a century after a world-spanning apocalyptic war that occurred. And that’s also AFTER technology had rapidly advanced.
In this video we’ll look at the Afterworld reveal trailer, and the ten minutes of gameplay which largely covers early policy/ law, scouting, early territorial management, brief combat, and then some broader looks at resources, needs, and the North American setting.
I also go through the five design pillars from the first dev diary, including the line that explains this game better than the trailer does: every Paradox grand strategy game has a secondary genre bolted on — Hearts of Iron is GSG plus wargame, Crusader Kings is GSG plus RPG, Victoria is GSG plus economy sim, Stellaris is GSG plus 4X. Afterworld is GSG plus settlement and survival, scaled up
SOURCES:
Afterworld on Steam – https://store.steampowered.com/app/4920230/Afterworld/
Paradox press release – https://news.cision.com/paradox-interactive/r/raise-an-empire-atop-the-ashes-in-afterworld–a-post-apocalyptic-grand-strategy-game,c4387218
Afterworld Dev Diary #1 – https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/forums/afterworld.1205/
Announce trailer – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PU1e7kfkfs
All gameplay footage is official Paradox alpha B-roll.
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So let down if you would have shifted to 3rd person or fps madmax apocalyptic wasteland contesting against other players in quality of life and immersive synced up actions. survival pvp/pve you would have dominanted the gaming market rip you coulda kept this up for 15 years. We needed you.
I want a cyborg army, so I can relive my command and conquer tiberian sun days.
I'm not buying from Paradox anymore, they nickel and dime too much. They are just becoming Ubisoft.
The first 10 minutes. I repeat 3 different actions the whole time, because this Paradox game has no dlcs yet.
Rome will rise again, Hail Caser!!!
Insta buy. I hope they keep supporting the game for a decade or more. With dlc and free content.
Seems like cities are just little clusters of buildings and the game is all in the countryside. The game looks amazing but I'm bummed there's not more to do in cities.
Man, this looks like it draws some serious inspiration from Old World Blues.
In a couple years I look forward to paying $400 extra for all the DLCs!
First video I saw about this game I was like "Huh, that'd play like a nice prelude for my current post-apocalyptic human playthrough that I started 2 days ago… Wait, it's made by the same people?!"
Just play Age of Wonders 4. And if you don't enjoy fantasy, just play CIV or Humankind.
This game doesn't seem bad but… other games have already done this and in much better ways.
México confirmate?
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I am going to every video about this game to see if people are discussing fallout mods
When I think of paradox´anti fun and dlc mentality, it will not be a good game for the first 5 years after release and even than it will be a pain to play..
dont waste your money on this, i wasted money on eu5 it was a total broken game.
Seems like a Menu Management Simulator, and I don't like the artstyle at all.
Frostpunk meets CK3
Mechanically looks like stellaris on the ground
Old World Blues.
Love what I'm seeing so far.
Ngl I'm kinda fed up with these ugly ass character models they're using in literally every Paradox game.
I think their trying too hard at this point and America was a poor choice for a game setting especially this type of game setting. The setting is what ruins fallout, Nobody outside America wants to play a game based on America lol even far cry new dawn was the lowest selling far cry
New IP in 10 years? Didn't Millennia come out ~2 years ago? Did they just publish that one?
Finally, my Mad Max grand strategy game has come true
if I know anything about paradox grand strategy release for the past 10 years then that they are all half baked, lacking core feature games, "fixed" by dlcs. I am tired of this, ck3 is missing half the good content from ck2 still.
Why can't we report the gambling websites?But we can report other advertisements… Kids watch this.What if gambling addicts are watching?How do we protect people
Someone who plays ck3 almost every night, I'm super hyped for this
Looks like its taking from bannrlords and frostpunk
You lost me at "this game runs in real time"… I was hoping for a new 4x turn based IP.
Im sorry man i cannot take the yakuza font seriously
What with all this Women – nobody will want to repopulate the Earth again, but them all stronk feministic Fighters? We dont have that even now in real Life 😂🎉
if it runs on the Clausewitz Engine the game wont be uptimized or run good
no actual graphical battles?
i beleive you when you say it looks like ARA. and that concerns me about just how playable this will be multiplayer.
random map gen?
4:20 I've played a lot of ARA, and I don't see the similarity beyond surface level
ceasars legion will rise instantly like 200k times
Time to invest in paradox stock is now god damn
Looks like PDX is re-using a lot of assets, mechanics or at the very least, the art style of its own Surviving Aftermath.
Love the setting but never been a fan of the real time 4x genre. So, never have gotten into any of the Paradox games.
Basically The unification wars the game
I want an After the End TC
Closest we'll get to a Unifiction Wars game.
honestly excited for this one
Did anyone else's heart skip a beat when he said Stellaris was released 10 years ago…….?
i am concerned that there only appears to be 3 origins, i would expect more