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Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

88% positive · 531 Steam reviews · released Mar 31, 2023 · by CleverRaven

Traditional RoguelikeSandboxRPGSurvivalZombiesRogue-likeAdventure2D

What it likely sold — estimate, stated as a range on purpose

Lifetime units: ~17,523 (P10–P90: 7,009 – 38,551)

Gross revenue: ~$287,234 ($114,890 – $631,920)

Estimate, method v1.0 — before Steam's ~30% share, refunds and VAT. The band means: we'd be surprised if the truth sat outside it. How we estimate

Player voice — measured shares of Steam thumbs, never a model

Story & writing93% positive · 43 mentions
“There's really no need to buy when there's a free version, but it's nice to have my total playtime recorded. It's my favorite game for a good randomised survival story. You'll get used to dying. Takes a lot of characters to learn the…”Recommended · Steam review · Oct 2025 · 1408 h played
Controls & UI93% positive · 42 mentions
“There's really no need to buy when there's a free version, but it's nice to have my total playtime recorded. It's my favorite game for a good randomised survival story. You'll get used to dying. Takes a lot of characters to learn the…”Recommended · Steam review · Oct 2025 · 1408 h played
Content & longevity85% positive · 33 mentions
“My personal favorite game, and this allows you to play it on steam for the achievements, playtime tracking, and steam cloud saves if that matters to you. I don't even want to know how many hours I've put into the free version, it truly is…”Recommended · Steam review · Dec 2025 · 218 h played
Difficulty & balance92% positive · 26 mentions
“I've hundreds and hundreds of hours off of steam. This game is a punishing, hateful mess of impossible nightmares, waiting to savage you the moment you hold down your autoattack a little too long. You can become a bionically-enhanced…”Recommended · Steam review · May 2025 · 7 h played
Gameplay & mechanics96% positive · 25 mentions
“There's really no need to buy when there's a free version, but it's nice to have my total playtime recorded. It's my favorite game for a good randomised survival story. You'll get used to dying. Takes a lot of characters to learn the…”Recommended · Steam review · Oct 2025 · 1408 h played
Price & value83% positive · 24 mentions
“pretty good game ngl. i have over 5000 hours on another device and maybe that makes me a loser, but i bet you don't have an impenetrable fortress and a do it yourself tank. who's the loser now? this game has a pretty big learning curve…”Recommended · Steam review · May 2026 · 910 h played
Performance & stability78% positive · 18 mentions
“Started as a clown, got chased by a dog for a while, found a sedan, crashed into a wall, got a new sedan, drifted my new sedan into a horde of zombies then hit a lamppost and died instantly”Recommended · Steam review · Mar 2026 · 1 h played
Visuals & audio94% positive · 18 mentions
“My personal favorite game, and this allows you to play it on steam for the achievements, playtime tracking, and steam cloud saves if that matters to you. I don't even want to know how many hours I've put into the free version, it truly is…”Recommended · Steam review · Dec 2025 · 218 h played
Multiplayer & community76% positive · 17 mentions
“I was Mr. Farts the lumberjack, and I was a paragon of the community. I cleared out a town of zombies just to find an inhaler for the local fat kid. I ripped the Quran from cold, undead hands so that the terrified Middle-Eastern tourists…”Recommended · Steam review · May 2026 · 32 h played

298 recent English reviews stored · topics keyword-matched · topics under 12 mentions stay hidden · methodology

Game DNA — store facts, community tag votes, labeled AI inference

Technology

2D

Art style

Pixel art

Setting

Sci-fiPost-apocalyptic

Structure

Sandbox

Mood & themes

Horror

How you play together

Single-player

Platform features

AchievementsSteam Cloud

Business model

Buy to play

Sources: Valve store fields · community tag votes · AI-inferred values are marked and drawn from a fixed vocabulary.

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