HYPE
CATACLISMO
Build a better barrier, brick by brick
Developer/ publisher Digital Sun
Format PC
Origin Release Spain July 16
Like a biscuit dunked too long in a cup of tea, the fortress walls begin to crumble and then come crashing down, no longer able to withstand the endless wave of raking claws and toothy maws. The citadel is lost – and as hundreds of mutant creatures storm the keep, pushing into every nook and cranny, we take in the scene. Next time will be different. It’s time to build higher – or simply better.
The defeat is no one’s fault but our own, since the design and durability of Cataclismo’s fortresses are completely down to the player. Each night, hordes of fleshy enemies known as ‘Horrors’ will throw themselves at your settlement, and to fend them off you need to construct fortified stone walls around it. The world has been left in ruin by the eponymous event, and playing as Lady Iris – prophet and commander of humanity’s last great city – you need to defend your people from these monsters in an absorbing fusion of realtime strategy and tower defence.