The Next World
No real discount right now, sitting 100% of the way from its all-time low to full price. One to watch rather than buy today.
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- The Next World Soundtrack From $2.99
- The Next World: Planetary Exploration From $2.99
- The Next World: Rocketship DLC From $1.99
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- The Next World: Deluxe Bundle From $15.71The Next World: Deluxe Bundle
- The Next World: Exploration Bundle From $15.17The Next World: Exploration Bundle
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Welcome to The Next World - a strategic visual novel telling the story of a crashed colony ship and its ragged group of survivors, trying to make a new life on the wrong planet. Craft plans, make decisions, and manage your colony's limited resources in a desperate fight to stay alive.
Welcome to The Next World - a strategic visual novel by Illuminated Games, telling the story of a crashed colony ship and its ragged group of survivors, trying to make a new life on the wrong planet.
TNW is a visual novel/strategy hybrid inspired by The Banner Saga, King of Dragon Pass and Oregon Trail, with an emphasis on planning and decision-making over combat. Keep as many colonists alive as possible by making the tough decisions which will determine how your adventure unfolds. Build colony structures, salvage wreckage, resolve problems with multiple branching outcomes, and manage your colony's dwindling supplies; all while playing through an intense story of political intrigue, sabotage, desperation and survival, by writer Ryan A. Span (FRONTIERS, Mount&Blade, Euclidean).
- Robust strategy system - manage your colony on a hostile world & keep your people alive
- Fully hand-drawn art in retro-industrial sci-fi style
- Two different protagonists to choose from, each with their own quirks and methods
- Colourful and memorable cast of NPCs
- Dozens of events to help you or challenge you
- Hundreds of decisions to make, each with its own consequences
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The Next World for PC currently sells from $12.99 at authorized stores. Its all-time low is $1.29, set on 2026-06-27.
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