Polish studios Vile Monarch are working on Floodland, their next game on a very urgent and current topic.
It is a strategic title (Building a City) that takes place in a distant future in which the Earth has suffered an environmental catastrophe that has flooded it almost completely. Come find out more…
Floodland, developed by Polish studios Vile Monarch, is a game that deals with a very current and urgent topic: climate change.
The idea behind the game reveals that in a rather distant future, climate change on our planet has led to rising sea water and almost complete flooding of the planet's surface. The world has once again plunged into the pre-industrial era.
Floodland is, at its core, a strategy game in which the player has to rebuild a society on this new Earth's surface. It is a city builder, i.e. the goal is to create and manage a prosperous city in a way that makes it sustainable, in a desolate environment devastated by floods.
Starting from the surroundings of a flooded city, the player will have to lead a small group of nomads and rebuild a society from scratch. For this, it is necessary to search and explore the ruins of the city in search of the important resources of our new village.
On the other hand, the "new society" will have to rethink many concepts that need to be rethought and re-learn in the meantime, such as farming and fishing. It is a new world with new needs and as such, man will have to adapt again to this new reality.
However, not everything found in the ancient cities is irretrievably lost, and during the game some buildings may be re-adapted and used for other purposes. This will depend a lot on the technological quest system that the game will provide.
However, people will continue to be human, with their prejudices, complexes and ways of thinking, and as the village grows, so will the internal problems. In this way, the game will present a strong social character, in which the player will also have to pay attention to the social problems that arise with the inevitable growth of the new city.
"In conversations with Grzegorz, the idea for Floodland came to us. This is while discussing games and topics that are still somewhat unexplored by video games. And we came to the conclusion that one of those missing themes was a more mature and realistic approach to what a post-apocalyptic scenario would be, and its fit with City Builder.Kwiatkowski said.
He further added that "We felt it was a particularly appropriate and important time to use this type of story to allow us to discuss the challenges of the world today.".
Floodland is slated to release on November 15, 2022 for PC.
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