Rekindling
Rekindling is a settlement building and management game. You are tasked with rebuilding society after the ZTD virus has taken over and turned the masses into mindless creatures. Build, Harvest, Mine, and Fight with your survivors to build a sustainable society and take steps towards finding the cure
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April 22, 2019
7 years and 104 days ago
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Positive35 reviews82.9%
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7 itemsAbout the Game
The ZTD virus has taken over and turned the majority of the population into Zims. Zims are mindless creatures that will stop at nothing to find and devour human flesh. You find yourself in charge of a colony of survivors trying to rebuild society.
Rekindling is a survivor management game where you must task your survivors with building up a sustainable settlement. Command your survivors to build, farm, mine and fight in our custom game engine built from the ground up!
Rekindling is a survivor management game where you must task your survivors with building up a sustainable settlement. Command your survivors to build, farm, mine and fight in our custom game engine built from the ground up!
Harvest the land
Randomly generated worlds each time you play across multiple different biomes. You must collect nearby scraps, rocks and trees to prepare for the Zim attacks that happen each night!Build your settlement
Over 50 unique items to build and create in order to enhance your settlement.infinite possibilities
The Survivors are all randomly generated with goals, likes, skills and bad habits.Avoid death
The Zims like the dark and will come out to attack each night! Make sure you are ready to fight back the hordes.Planed features
Here are some features that we would like to add to the game before the full release. Updates will come out every week with these additions as well as other fun features. We have already started to implement a lot of these since we have gone into early access. Features with a (~) mean they have already been added in some form- (~)Full research tree for unlocking new items for your survivors
- (~)More dynamic survivor interactions. Such as dealing with outsiders and distrust/love between existing survivors
- (~)Tons of more items and objects
- (~)A mission driven scenario mode where you have a colony already and have to solve its problems
- (~)Steam Workshop
- (~)Control mode where you can become a survivor and do actions directly controlling them as them
- (~)More sandbox and free build options such as picking the starting world settings
- (~)More Biomes and environmental differences such as Tundras, swamps and grand forests
- (~)More ZIM variants EX: a large slow ZIM that destroys buildings.
