Factorio, RimWorld, and Satisfactory - and to a similar extent Cities Skylines 2 - are all about the hardships of logistics. The joy of these games is getting everything to click finally into place, to create a beautiful closed system that hums along without needing your further input. But let's take the stresses of industry and building games and transplant them to the brutal, survivalistic world of Fallout New Vegas. On the barren frontline of the apocalypse, your job is to keep the final remnants of humanity stocked with food, ammunition, and everything else, all the while fighting to defend yourself from the myriad horrors that stalk the wasteland. A mix of FTL Faster Than Light and Bethesda's dystopian RPG, this is Dustland Delivery, and it just got better than ever.
It's the end of the world as we know it, but nevertheless, a twisted, busted version of civilization lingers on. Rather than a vault dweller or a lone wanderer, in Dustland Delivery, you play as the manager of a rough-and-tumble haulage company. The fractured settlements of the post-apocalypse need supplies to keep going, and it's your job to provide them. Gather resources, outfit your trucks with weapons and defenses, and carve your way through the jagged landscape to forge new delivery routes. Complete with a gorgeous pixel-art aesthetic and deep strategy and management mechanics, it's an RPG, simulation, and survival game combined.
And now, Dustland Delivery has a new, free DLC. Perfect for the Cities Skylines devout, you can now outline and build your own roads, and connect towns and dwellings however you like. Various outposts from the pre-apocalypse are still standing, staffed by construction droids. Once you find them, you can draw the plans for your new thoroughfare, and then it's up to you to provide the raw materials while the robots get to work. Once the base route is complete, you can connect it to other roads using sporadically placed nodes, gradually forging a new network of driving lanes to expedite your entire operation.
It adds a whole-new layer to the pseudo strategy game, and there's also another big change in terms of the in-game economy. Now, when you deliver goods to a city, you can also send along a designated negotiator who will attempt to bargain for higher prices and make you more money. Sometimes they'll be successful. Other times, they'll run into trouble. You need to decide which deals are worth bartering over and which are best left alone.
To complete the survival game experience, Dustland Delivery now lets you craft food items using more than 200 recipes, further expanding your would-be product line. There are also new hotkey options and the entire DLC will work perfectly fine with any existing saves. Once again, this is an entirely free update, but to mark the occasion, developer Neutron Star has dropped the price of Dustland Delivery by 20%, so it'll only cost you $6.39 / £5.35.
Over its lifetime, 88% of user reviews for Dustland Delivery have been positive - recent reviews from the last 30 days are 91% positive. This one definitely deserves more attention, especially if you're a Fallout, Cities, or Factorio fan. You can get it right here.
Otherwise, try some of the other best simulation games, or maybe the best apocalypse games available on PC.
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