The settlement builder from Vile Monarch and Ravenscourt, Floodland has finally been released officially on Steam today available at US$29.99 / £24.99 / RM90.00.

We also reviewed Floodland so feel free to check it out

If you’ve not come across Floodland before then you’re in for a real treat.

Runaway climate change means the Earth is now ice-free – and catastrophic sea level rise has inundated the land, with coastal cities lost to the oceans and the ones inland now a swampy morass of rusting cars and decaying buildings.

It’s in one of these drowned cities that you arrive with your small group of nomads. Your task: rebuilding society from the ground up.

You do this by exploring the ruins and scouring them for resources, relearning basic agriculture and fishing skills and turning a group of stragglers – living in tents in a swamp – into a thriving town.

After that, you’ll need to establish new buildings (or upgrade existing ones) and research ‘new’ (or relearn old tech) enabling you to overcome the numerous challenges you face.

But people will be people and the larger your settlement grows – and the more habitants it will have –  the higher the chance societal issues will arise, meaning you may well face the same problems the old world had.

The question is, how will you manage your clans; will you unite the remnants of humanity or will you choose division and isolation? Either way, you will shape the society of tomorrow.