Deadland 4000

Deadland 4000 is a survival game set in the year 4000, where the world has become an alien wasteland. You travel north in search of what may be the last human on Earth, exploring a vast procedurally generated world, fighting monsters and scavenging for loot while trying to keep from running out of food. Each character has only one life, so every run ends in death or continued progress.

Characters and abilities

Choose from classes including a scavenging hobo, a candy-crazed child, a gadget-clad secret agent, a mystical druid, a knife-wielding punk and a mutating lab experiment. Each class has its own starting equipment, special perks, strengths and weaknesses, supporting a different playstyle.

The game has no experience points. Instead, you find tomes of experience scattered across the land; reading them grants abilities that affect the rest of your run. These can let you become a werewolf at night, photosynthesize your own food, see farther after dark or grow an extra head.

Scavenge the wasteland

Loot is randomly generated in each game, so you have to adapt to what you find. Abandoned items include magical wands, flamethrowers, katanas and jetpacks.

A hostile world

You travel through overgrown cornfields, dark desert highways and desecrated suburbs. The wildlife has evolved into vicious predators, and you are at the bottom of the food chain. You can avoid enemies by staying outside their circles of vision, but gunfire makes noise, and some enemies trigger alarms that alert others nearby.

Keep moving north

The world generates in a straight line, with biomes connected without loading zones or level barriers. Weather events such as acid rain and solar flares can be waited out inside structures. You can also rest or risk exploring at night, when visibility is reduced.