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Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead cover art

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

CleverRaven · KorGgenT · 2023-03-31

Steam

AdventureRPG

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jun 01, 2013 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 01, 2013 (Mac), Dec 31, 2013 (Web browser), Jun 01, 2013 (Linux)

The epitome of a modern traditional roguelike: with turn-based play and a RPG-like skill progression system, it hearkens back to some of the major aspects of this genre. This game has an incredible depth, with a deep inventory system, vehicles and boats, NPCs with their own stories, and more.

33
playing now
87%
positive of 540 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
90/100
IGDB user rating (25 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

33 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (CDDA) is an open-source survival horror roguelike video game. Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is a fork of the original game Cataclysm. The game is freely downloadable on the game's website and the source code is also freely available on the project's GitHub repository under the CC BY-SA Creative Commons license. The game is currently largely developed by its community. Rock, Paper, Shotgun named CDDA one of "The 50 Best Free Games on PC" in 2016 and later one of "The Greatest PC Games of the 2010s."

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  • · Top 39% of 11,312 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 11k–24k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 540 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $5.00 at Game Jolt (2018-11-11)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 1 of 2 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

5172026-08-11 19:00 — 24 players2026-08-12 11:00 — 21 players2026-08-13 03:00 — 14 players2026-08-13 19:00 — 17 players2026-08-14 10:00 — 13 players2026-08-15 02:00 — 19 players2026-08-15 18:00 — 25 players2026-08-16 10:00 — 21 players2026-08-17 02:00 — 19 players2026-08-17 18:00 — 7 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 13 players2026-08-19 01:00 — 18 players2026-08-19 17:00 — 10 players2026-08-20 09:00 — 13 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 15 players2026-08-21 16:00 — 13 players2026-08-22 08:00 — 14 players2026-08-23 00:00 — 26 players2026-08-23 16:00 — 32 players2026-08-24 07:00 — 15 players2026-08-24 23:00 — 23 players2026-08-25 15:00 — 30 players2026-08-26 07:00 — 22 players2026-08-27 00:00 — 33 players2026-08-27 16:00 — 33 players2026-08-28 07:00 — 26 players2026-08-28 23:00 — 32 players2026-08-29 14:00 — 51 players2026-08-30 06:00 — 33 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$5.002018-11-112026-07-092018-11-11 — best price $5.002023-03-31 — best price $19.992024-05-13 — best price $15.992024-05-20 — best price $19.992024-06-27 — best price $15.992024-07-11 — best price $19.992024-12-19 — best price $15.992025-01-02 — best price $19.992025-05-26 — best price $15.992025-06-02 — best price $19.992026-06-25 — best price $15.992026-07-09 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

8 supported languages: English, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2700%39

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DRPGAliensHorrorModernSci-fiSandboxZombiesModdableSurvival

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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