Dark Future is a challenging run-based car combat strategy game with unique time dilation-based real-time combat, set on the ravaged highways of a darkly comic American dystopia.
In 2023 the US government barely functions, and society is stretched to breaking point, as huge corporations hold sway in the cities while the rest of the land slides into chaos. On the highways of mid-America – aka The Big Empty – pollution, stagnation, catastrophic climate change, and gang warfare has resulted in a near-apocalyptic nightmare.
In this dystopian alternative America, the Sanctioned Ops – highway warriors for hire – enforce what few laws remain, but only for those that can afford their services. With natural resources in short supply, violent gangcults hunting on the broken roads, and questionable contracts always available for those happy with not asking too many questions, morals are flexible and life is cheap.
Taking on the role of one of the characters inhabiting this murky world of tarmac and blood, you’ll take to the sand-swept highways to complete objectives that drive their story forward, as you begin to piece together what’s really happening in the world of Dark Future.
Having equipped your vehicle with a devastating array of weapons and defences, you’ll need to think quickly and utilise every strategic option available to you in order to survive bullet-riddled encounters from relentless enemies.
This realtime strategic play, combined with a physics-defying RealTimeShift temporal manipulation mechanic, bleakly beautiful visuals, and a mysterious universe filled with danger and wry humour, makes Dark Future: Blood Red States a truly different car combat strategy game.
AUTHOR’S NOTES
Back in the late 80’s, the wastelands of a shattered America were haunted by the roar of engines and the rattle of gunfire across the asphalt; Dark Future was a cyberpunk post-apocalypse vehicle combat board game from Games Workshop that enjoyed a cult following, spawning a series of novels including Jade Dragon written by me. And now, Dark Future is back from the dead…
Auroch Digital are following in the footsteps of their earlier hit board game-to-video game Chainsaw Warrior with Dark Future: Blood Red States, and I’m in the gunner seat working on the storyline.
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