Burning Regolith

AVAILABLE NOW!Play the Free Alpha (Windows PC)

Burning Regolith is currently in open alpha testing. You can download and play the latest build directly below:

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Burning Regolith is a survival city/colony builder with a Mount and Blade twist. I don't know if there's such a thing as "M&B-like" but it's kinda what I'm trying to do with this. 

Story & How it Plays:

The game starts the player on a vast, hostile planet after what it seems like a failed colony attempt, with debris and burning, abandoned stuff all around. The player's calendar shows "SOL 216" so it has been some time, but they have no recollection of what happened here or how it happened. 

After the failure of civilization on the surface, the player finds that some people are trying to survive as raiders,  ambushing the player. And some, in an inexplicable way, are slowly turning into zombies. The daylight on the planet is deadly; moving around during the day causes sickness and increased resource drain to stay alive, but during the day, raiders go underground; the only threat is slow moving but never ending zombies.

Roaming the map in a Mount and Blade campaign map fashion, the player finds points of interest: some are derelict resource depots, some are crash sites, and some are wells dug in the ground in search of water.  By visiting POIs, the player gathers resources and sometimes finds unique and regular wanderers. After some resource collection and buddy finding, the player can put together a small settlement and at that point, the struggle for reclamation begins.

Having abundant resources while make your wanderers happy, generate heat and draw hostile parties to your settlements. You can form caravans between settlements to deliver much needed resources. Set up logistics lines, build roads for faster travel, but the planet, weather, raiders and zombies are always posing threats. The bigger you get the more attention you draw. 

Will you be able to reclaim the planet, reform civilization and prosper?