Polish studios Vile Monarch are working on Floodland, their next game which addresses a very topical and urgent theme.
It is a strategic title (a City Builder) that takes place in the distant future where the Earth suffered an environmental catastrophe that almost completely flooded it. Come and find out more …
Floodland, developed by the Polish studios Vile Monarch, is a game that addresses a very current and urgent theme: climate change.
The idea behind the game reveals that, in the somewhat distant future, climate change on our planet has led to rising sea waters and almost total flooding of the planet's surface. The world is back in a pre-industrial era.
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Floodland is, in essence, a strategy game in which the player will have to rebuild a society on this new earth's surface. He is a city builder, meaning the goal is to create a prosperous city and manage it so that it becomes sustainable, in a desolate environment destroyed by floods.
Starting in the vicinity 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 resources, important for our new village.
On the other hand, the "new society" will have to rethink numerous concepts which in the meantime have to be rethought and relearned, such as agriculture 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 ancient cities is irretrievably lost and during the game some buildings may even be adapted and used for other purposes. This will greatly depend on the technology research system that the game will make available.
However, the people will continue to be people, with their prejudices, their complexes and their ways of thinking and as the village grows, so too will the internal problems. In this way, the game will have a strong social character, as 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, we came up with the idea for Floodland. This is while discussing games and themes 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 would be a post-apocalyptic scenario and its compatibility with a City Builder game.”, Says Kwiatkowski.
Adding further that "we found it particularly appropriate and important to use this type of stories to enable us to discuss the challenges of today's world.".
Floodland is scheduled for release on November 15, 2022 for PC.
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