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[EuchreJack]

                                                 Dustland Delivery





Now on Steam!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2943280/Dustland_Delivery/
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So, this is a cool game that I have been playing lately.

"Dustland Delivery is a post-apocalyptic survival business simulator. Scour the wastes for profit, complete missions to grow your trading empire, and assemble a rag-tag band of adventurers to turn your city into the capital of the Dustlands.

Marshal Resources to Build Your Dustland Empire
A vast game world with a rich narrative to explore

Establish trade routes across unique settlements to become a kingpin of the wastes

Control resource flows to build magnificent cities

Transform Your Truck for Apocalyptic Adventures
Create your own mobile base to cruise through the Dustlands

Install mods to turn your truck into a deadly weapon against infected swarms

A Cast of Unique Companions
Recruit a rag-tag group of adventurers with distinctive traits

Assign different roles to help build your city

Tool up and train animal companions to boost your team's stats

Undead? No excuse not to show up for work...

Random Events, Freedom to Choose
Countless random events: armored motorcades, undead raids, unknown signals from mysterious locations...

Your Dustland, your way: become a warrior for justice, a money-grubbing merchant, or an infamous bandit

Struggle for Power, Rebuild the Wastes
6 major factions with a web of complex relations

Exploit power struggles and trading rivalries to come out on top

Form alliances, stir up trouble, and build your own power base

Complex Weather System
Forge a path through the Dustlands while fighting storms and hidden dangers

Set up camp to shelter from the elements, then ride out at daybreak"

It has that cool early 90s art and style, but is a modern trading/adventure/rpg/simulation.
Work when you want, fight to survive, do your own thing, watch as your Truck gets more blinged out for Mad Max adventures.
In the default mode, your Truck is your Character, everyone else is expendable!
There is also a Hero mode where you play as a single character always tied to your Truck.

(The intro picture shows my brave Titan Killers)

[AlStar]

How deep is the trading system? Is there anything like real supply/demand going on? Can I raid other merchant convoys to create artificial shortages, etc?

[EuchreJack]

Every settlement has a fixed import/export list, and the price is based upon the quantities of the units they have.  It's mostly abstracted. No changing things, other than overloading the market and having to wait for it to return to normal.
So, fairly shallow.

[Yoink]

I've been playing this a bit. I love it! Although, each time I fire it up it's a struggle to remember what my planned next moves were. Maybe I should start keeping a notebook while I play or something... but yeah, cool game, adore the concept, even if I don't really know what I'm doing yet.   

[EuchreJack]

You can take on tasks that create a roadmap for your playthrough.

Also: I killed a Titan!

[Yoink]

Yeah of course I use tasks, but as I play I'll form an idea of which settlement needs what goods and sorta plan a vague route to drive in as I complete said tasks, as well as what gear I need for the truck and crew. I haven't played in a few days though, next time I might take notes as I go.
...I didn't even know this game had titans!

[EuchreJack]

...I didn't even know this game had titans!

I think there is only one Titan, although there are other boss-likes.

[Dostoevsky]

I've been enjoying this one quite a bit over the last week as well. I would call it more of a vibe game than a serious simulation of any particular aspect, but it does the vibe well. The various little minigames and short CYOA-ish side quests supplement the core trucker logistics experience nicely, and the settlement system is implemented pretty decently. Makes me think of the X games with far, far less jank and fiddliness and more simplicity. That latter part is both good and bad, depending on what you want, but for 8 bucks I think it's a steal.