Ever fantasise about a great global reset? Throw away all the smartphones and glossy technologies and content management systems that allow us to deliver these very words to you right now, and rewind back to simpler (if infinitely tougher) times, from which to rebuild anew? Sure, it's not something you may actually want to transpire, but the beauty of video games is that they let us live out these fantasies, and Core Engage's upcoming post-apocalyptic colony builder New Cycle looks like one of the more promising games to let us go about that.
Set in the aftermath of a cataclysmic solar flare that wiped out most technological advancements, you're given control over a group of hapless wanderers living out of tenuous shelters, with the task of building them up into a thriving industrial city. With echoes of Endzone in its hauntingly beautiful presentation and the need to make tough decisions that force you to balance expediency with morality, New Cycle is for those who embrace the challenge of thriving in a seemingly uncaring world by whatever means necessary.
