Sheltered - Post-nuclear survival meets FTL

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Sheltered is a post-apocalyptic roguelike with a twist, currently seeking funding on Kickstarter. As the blurb puts it:

Family comes first. Protect your family after the nuclear aftermath in an underground shelter in this strategy survival game.

Sheltered is a strategy game where you're set the task of keeping your family alive in the cut-throat, desolate expanse that is the post-apocalyptic era.

A father, a mother, a daughter and a son. Given a head-start over the billions lost in the nuclear holocaust, you start in an almost impenetrable underground fortress designed to keep a family alive and well.

Dangers and potential hazards that threaten the life of your family.

  • Irradiated beasts of the nuclear wasteland.
  • High radiation levels outside of the shelter. Finite food, water and oxygen.
  • Claustrophobia, mental exhaustion and trauma when involved in highly stressful situations (eg. combat, death of loved one.)
  • Necessary systems breaking down.
  • Having to leave the shelter to make supply runs.
But the highest dangers of all are the dregs of the nuclear war. The rest of the human race that wander the wilderness, alone, cold, malnourished, and wanting nothing more than to share your well-prepared comforts.​

Sheltered looks quite interesting. The current funding target is £15 000 pounds, and is missing just £1 700 with two weeks to go.

Spotted on The Vault.
 
I love Fallout dearly, but I don't understand the reviewers' need to compare it to this, as if having a post-nuclear setting automatically makes it like Fallout. They don't seem that similar to me.
Could be very interesting, though, and I prefer this comparison: "It's a bit like Oregon Trail, only you don't go anywhere."

I wonder if the family will age. It would be fascinating if it could turn into a full-fledged sim with successive generations, by letting in other survivors (or else the family would just get old and die). Also hoping I could play it like those creepy people in The Road, and just let in survivors so the family could kill and eat them.
 
Interesting visuals.

FTL is dutifully simulated ~ copied with this game by using abysmally tiny fonts so older people will need an electron microscope to be able to read anything. Not that on seeing such tiny fonts I want to play this thing.
 
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