Wastelander

Wastelander is a turn-based strategy game about building a colony and finding a way to escape a barren alien planet. After a mysterious force pulls your ship into the atmosphere, you crash-land and must establish a settlement from the scattered remains of your spacecraft. Explore the wasteland to uncover the technology and secrets of an ancient civilization, while preparing to leave before increasingly powerful storms become impossible to withstand.

Build and explore

You begin with a limited selection of basic buildings and expand your colony as you explore. Scanners and drones reveal unexplored areas, resources and abandoned supply drops. Ancient relics, deployable technology and new blueprints let you construct more advanced structures, while alien ruins hold secrets that can improve your technology and open a path to survival.

Prepare for the storms

Each passing storm grows more intense and destructive, and basic defences cannot hold out forever. You need enough power to keep your colony functioning while balancing exploration, expansion and defence. Decide whether to search for new technology and a way off the planet or prepare for the next storm; eventually, you may have to choose which structures to save and which to let the storms destroy.

You can discover and build defences, use storm dispersers to temporarily protect selected areas or buildings, and apply alien abilities to make exploration easier or change the terrain. Terraforming reshapes the land, while dynamite opens paths through mountainous areas. Each building, item and ability has its own uses and trade-offs, and making the most of them depends on what is available and the situation at hand.

Maps and challenges

Maps are randomly generated from seeds, offering new layouts and challenges. You can play random maps at a range of difficulty levels or compete for high scores on the Daily Challenge seed. Wastelander’s turn-based systems are easy to learn but difficult to master.