On its Steam page, upcoming city-building game Floodland bills itself as “a society survival game set in a world destroyed by climate change.” The developer is Vile Monarch, a new studio co-founded by Kacper Kwiatkowski and Grzegorz Mazur, who also co-founded 11 Bit and worked on This War of Mine. When I strolled into my hands-on appointment at Gamescom 2022, however, I only knew to expect a then-unannounced city builder that would deal in some way with climate change – and I confess I was hoping for something a bit different.
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