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Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

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Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead cover
Developers
Kevin Granade & community
Release dates
Windows Early access
macOS (OS X) Early access
Linux Early access
Taxonomy
Monetization Freeware
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Turn-based
Perspectives Top-down view
Controls Direct control
Genres Roguelike
Art styles Pixel art
Themes Zombies
Series Cataclysm
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Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead on IGDB
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Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead on MobyGames
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead on Wikipedia
Cataclysm
Cataclysm 2010
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead EA
Cataclysm: Bright Nights EA

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is a singleplayer top-down view roguelike game in the Cataclysm series.

General information

Official forums
Official wiki
Official Discord

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Developer website
DRM-free
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam (unavailable)
DRM details are not known
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/cataclysm-dda/
This game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux $XDG_DATA_HOME/cataclysm-dda/save/
$XDG_DATA_HOME/cataclysm-dda/memorial/
$XDG_DATA_HOME/cataclysm-dda/graveyard/
$XDG_DATA_HOME/cataclysm-dda/templates/

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Ray tracing (RT)

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Arabic
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Filipino
French
German
Greek
Hungarian
Icelandic
Indonesian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Norwegian
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Serbian
Spanish
Regular and Argentinian
Turkish
Ukrainian
Translations are available on Transifex where they can be updated and new languages be added here.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
OpenGL
ExecutablePPC 32-bit 64-bitARM Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
[1]

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU) 2 GHz[2]
System memory (RAM) 1 GB[2] 2 GB[2]
Hard disk drive (HDD)
macOS (OS X)
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU) 2 GHz[2]
System memory (RAM) 500 MB[2] 2 GB[2]
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Linux
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU) 900 MHz[2] 2 GHz[2]
System memory (RAM) 500 MB[2] 2 GB[2]
Hard disk drive (HDD)

References