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made me scroll past, the cool art drew me back in especially since it does not look dark and depressing and "world sucks"-ish or even "the world as we know it ended". Checked Steam page and never actually saw the words "post-apocalypse" anywhere in there. It seemed more to be about a
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Gave me way more of an "explore uncharted territory!" vibe than a "world ended, try to survive in a hellish dystopia" or "world ended, try to build something new out of it" post-apocalypse vibe. So wondering if you could help me and let me know where that part of the title is coming from.
EDIT: nevermind, found it when scanning reviews
Since the game is supposed to have some kind of narrative/story also according to the reviews I'll trust that. Would usually delete comment, but considering Fediverse does not have much engagement I'll leave this up, "hey look this game attracted a commenter's attention!"
I've only played the demo from about a year ago, whirl the narrative and gameplay clearly refer to a post-apocalytic world, it felt less noticeable than many other post-apocalytic town/city builder games.
The exact tone might have changed a bit since then.