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Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
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ReimplementationDownloadAI-assisted

Cataclysm-DDA

Brings back Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead · By CleverRaven

Plays on your own device, not in a browser tab. Opens github.com in a new tab.

Ways to play

  • Download

    github.com

    Get it on GitHub

    Windows

    Release cdda-experimental-2026-11-01-0302, Nov 1, 2026 (a pre-release)

    How to play
    1. Download the build for your system (Windows) from the project's release page.
    2. The project's page says what it needs from your own copy of Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, if anything.
    3. Launch it.

Details

What
A new engine written from scratch that runs the original game's data.
Code
github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA13.4K stars on its repositoryLast updated Nov 1, 2026
Made with
People wrote the code with an AI's help, as the cited source says.

Its game

  1. Pre-release · Nov 1, 2026cdda-experimental-2026-11-01-0134, and 1 more that day
  2. Pre-release · Oct 31, 2026cdda-experimental-2026-10-31-1806, and 4 more that day
  3. Pre-release · Oct 30, 2026cdda-experimental-2026-10-30-2308, and 2 more that day

From SubmitGame's list, read Nov 1, 2026 and the GitHub API, read Nov 1, 2026. How to play gives the steps every way of its kind shares: the project's repository or site has the rest.