After the Collapse
Released Sep 2022
ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.
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Evaluation
After the Collapse launched out of Early Access on September 9, 2022 and has received a sustained stream of major content updates ever since. Post-launch major releases include the Rebirth Update (December 7, 2023), a feature patch series through 2024, the Spiderling Content Update 1.5.0 (May 26, 2025), and most recently v2.0.0 (June 30, 2026) — a landmark release that migrated the entire game engine to .NET 10 and added drones, new raid types, directional audio, and many other improvements. A small bug fix patch followed on July 7, 2026. This establishes a consistent major-update cadence of roughly every 6–14 months across the post-launch period.
The v2.0.0 post includes an important note about the future: the developer says "there might be a couple more smaller updates to smooth the rougher edges," but that their "main focus is currently on the next game." This is a meaningful signal that the pace of updates is winding down rather than stopping immediately — additional smaller patches are possible, but the developer is no longer treating After the Collapse as their primary development focus.
Regarding the previously announced "Echoes of the Machine" DLC (announced December 2024, initially targeting mid-March 2025): the May 2025 Spiderling Content Update explicitly stated the DLC was "on hold" due to financial uncertainty related to the game's store visibility and currency exchange rates. The developer noted that if the DLC is cancelled, some of its content would be released for free instead. There is no later post confirming the DLC was either completed or formally cancelled. Given that the v2.0.0 update appears to have incorporated some drone/robot content originally earmarked for the DLC, and the developer's attention has shifted toward a next game, the DLC appears to have been quietly set aside — but there is no definitive cancellation statement.
Evidence
v2.0.0 released: full engine migration to .NET 10, new drone technology, new raid types, directional audio, and many other additions. Developer notes focus is shifting to their next game, but a couple of smaller follow-up updates may still come.
Developer states their main focus is now on the next game, while leaving the door open for a couple more smaller updates to After the Collapse.
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Developer
Publisher
Anarkis Gaming
Achievements
43
Platform
Windows
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Unsupported
Players
Single-player
About this game

After The Collapse is a base-building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring both urban and country-side environments. It features Z levels (ability to dig down to explore caverns and sewers) and the ability to manage multiple dozens of survivors in real-time. It also gives you the choice between playing as technology-minded humans, combat-focused mutants, or even a tribe of cannibals.
Your task is to manage a band of survivors and protect them against raiders, mutants, monsters, and other environmental threats. To do so, you'll have to build a base, discover new technologies, and scavenge for resources. As the game progresses, you'll send expeditions to explore a dynamic world map to find other survivors, repair resource production centers, deal with other factions, uncover hidden secrets, and retrieve lost technologies.
After The Collapse, on top of being a free-form base-building game with light 4X elements, also includes multiple scenarios and a very expansive Story Mode with an optional tutorial for newcomers.

- Build a colony in procedurally generated environments featuring many biomes, weather patterns, multiple underground layers with resources, and dangerous foes.
- Manage a population ranging from a few survivors to hundreds of them and defend them against bandits and other creatures with automated turrets, traps, and other defensive structures.
- Multiple game modes, a full story mode, and several scenarios with specific challenges, goals, and quests.
- Launch expeditions to find more survivors, loot, and technologies in a dynamic world map where other factions are competing for control of the various resource production centers. Deal with them as you see fit.
- Explore forgotten bunkers through an interactive story system to uncover lost technologies, like the ability to build your own customizable robotic army.
- Use captured enemies as a workforce or as commodities and tame giant creatures to use them as pets, cattle, or even a way to defend yourself.
- Deal with dozens of special events: sicknesses, fires during heat waves, mental breakdown, enemy raiders, requests for help from civilians, and many more.
- Full modding and Steam Workshop support.

After The Collapse features a long campaign that also serves as a tutorial in its early stages. It follows the adventures of a group of survivors since their arrival in the bunker which kept them alive during the Collapse. It also sets the game's official lore through cutscenes and interactive quests.

While Story Mode is played as a group of standard humans, in all other game modes and most scenarios, you can play as one of three archetypes:
- The weak but technologically-minded humans who sure die easily in a fight, but they can unlock the ability to build modern gear, weapons, and automated turrets to defend themselves.
- The strong mutants, immune to most sicknesses and weather effects, but have a tendency to fight amongst themselves and are very technology limited. They rely on map exploration and scavenging to find and use the more powerful weapons.
- The nasty cannibals who have no issue converting bandits and other hostiles into food, but who have forgotten their pre-war skills.

As the game progresses, the world around you will change. Plants will grow, wither and die. Weather will change, impacting your crops. Creatures will start roaming the countryside and may enter your base when you don't expect it. Other factions will compete for the control of the critical resource production centers.

After the Collapse is under active development and will continue to receive free content updates regularly.
We respond to feedback and bug reports quickly.

After The Collapse is a very easy game to mod. Mod creators will enjoy its very robust engine and that all the game's data (from items to mobs or game events) is written in a simple, text-driven, format. More advanced modders will appreciate the ability to use LUA.
Of course, the Steam Workshop is fully supported.
Last evaluated Aug 19, 2026
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