Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
Also known as CDDA, Cataclysm DDA
A turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Scavenge for food and equipment and fight monsters in a harsh, persistent, procedurally generated world, shown in ASCII text or graphical tiles.
At a glance
- Developer
- Kevin Granade and the community
- Genres
- Roguelike, Survival
- Modes
- Single-player
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux, Android
- First released
- 2013
- Licence
- CC-BY-SA-3.0
How to get it
- Open sourceOfficial site (opens in a new tab)
Stable and experimental builds are offered.
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Sources
Checked against these sources on October 22, 2026 by GameHunt editorial (research assisted by Claude).
- Source code repository: https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA
Contributions under CC BY-SA 3.0; some bundled code under other licences.
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataclysm:_Dark_Days_Ahead
Version 0.1 released 26 February 2013; platforms.