Surviving the Aftermath
Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future - resources are scarce but opportunity calls. Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists and restore civilization to a devastated world. Remember: The end of the world is just the beginning.
Build and manage a colony of survivors after a world-ending event. Construct more than 50 unique buildings to handle everything from resource collection and farming to exploration and security. Don’t forget to construct the Gate to venture into the savage world beyond your colony.
Overview of the platinum guide
1 missable trophy · Fully obtainable offline
Platinum Requirement Profile (Difficulty & Effort)
Resource-rich post-apocalyptic builder requiring major patience to survive 365 in-game days for Platinum.
- Mechanics & Peak: 1/10 – Relaxed colony builder with no time pressure or quick reflexes needed.
- Guide Reliance: 4/10 – Foresighted management is simple enough on lower difficulty settings.
- Grind & Collectibles: 8/10 – Surviving 365 days and reaching 300 colonists requires immense time.
- RNG & Luck: 4/10 – RNG is noticeable in world generation, traders, and disaster types.
- Punishment Severity: 3/10 – Very manageable in the base game thanks to custom difficulty options.
- Co-op / MP Dependency: 0/10 – No multiplayer components or online trophies included.
100% DLC Note: The scenario DLC requires surviving 100 days at over 250% difficulty, massively increasing rigor and planning.
Trophies
Main game
Survived the Aftermath
Unlock every other trophy
Unlock all other trophies to earn the Platinum trophy.
Leader
Reach a population of 20
Keep food and water reserves stable while maintaining surplus housing capacity so survivor groups at the gate can be admitted immediately.
Local Leader
Reach a population of 50
Maintain high colonist happiness and healthcare access to encourage natural births while consistently taking in survivor groups.
Great Leader
Reach a population of 100
Construct permanent Two-story Houses and upgrade water networks with large water towers to support a three-digit populace.
Catastrofan
Survive through 5 Catastrophes on a single playthrough
Stockpile several days' worth of food and water before each forecasted disaster to ride them out without losses.
Big Catastrofan
Survive through 15 Catastrophes on a single playthrough
Playing on custom settings with lower disaster severity makes riding out 15 consecutive catastrophes much safer.
Biggest Catastrofan
Survive through 30 Catastrophes on a single playthrough
Once power, water, and food loops are fully automated, let the game run at maximum speed to weather late-game catastrophes without intervention.
Survivor
Survive 50 days
Prioritize clean water wells, emergency shelters, and continuous berry or crop gathering in the opening weeks.
Real Survivor
Survive 100 days
Set up reliable heating networks and large water reserves to survive severe seasonal cold snaps and heatwaves.
True Survivor
Survive 365 days
With an automated base and stockpiles maxed, leave the game running on 3x speed to reach day 365 safely.
Friendly
Earn 500 Reputation
Complete trade deals and fulfill request missions for neighboring factions on the World Map.
Really Friendly
Earn 2000 Reputation
Focus on recurring trade convoys and export surplus manufactured items to friendly societies.
Super-Friendly
Earn 5000 Reputation
Run concurrent trade routes with multiple factions and resolve any World Map faction dilemmas favorably.
Explorer
Reveal 1 sector
Send any specialist past your colony borders onto the World Map and move them into an obscured sector to lift the fog of war.
Famous Explorer
Reveal 10 sectors
Specialists with the Scout archetype possess higher movement points, making them ideal for quickly uncovering sectors.
Legendary Explorer
Reveal 15 sectors
Keep multiple scouts moving along the outer perimeter of the World Map continuously from early in the game.
Adventurer
Complete 1 Quest
Move a specialist to any exclamation mark marker on the World Map and resolve the quest encounter.
Famous Adventurer
Complete 5 Quests
Make sure your specialists have adequate health and matching stats before engaging high-risk quest events.
Legendary Adventurer
Complete 20 Quests
New quests spawn as you uncover more sectors. Dedicate at least one high-stat specialist purely to handling World Map objectives.
Healer
Heal 10 colonists
Build a Medical Tent, assign a worker, and ensure an active stockpile of basic medicine to treat injured or irradiated colonists.
Famous Healer
Heal 50 colonists
Disasters like pandemics and fallout cause massive infection spikes. Stockpile medicine in advance and build secondary clinics.
Great Healer
Heal 100 colonists
Upgrade to Field Hospitals or Hospitals in late-game to handle high patient volumes during prolonged colony expansions.
First step
Get your first colonists
Unlocked automatically through story progression.
New opportunities
Discover a Society
Explore outward on the World Map until you discover an established settlement of another faction.
It's a Finnish thing
Build a Sauna
Unlock the Sauna in the Medical branch of the tech tree and construct it within your colony.
Cleaner
Remove the first Pollution Deposit
Build an Environmental Station and position its collection radius over toxic pollution patches near your base.
Big Game Hunter
Kill a Sandworm
Locate a Sandworm sector on the World Map and dispatch a high-combat Fighter specialist with full health to defeat it.
Energized
Produce Energy
Construct a Wind Turbine or Small Solar Panel and connect it to a power pole grid.
Merchant
Trade 1,000 Silver worth of goods to Societies
Build a Trade Depot, open diplomacy with a known society, and sell surplus resources until the trade value hits 1,000 Silver.
Trader
Trade 10,000 Silver worth of goods to Societies
Focus on selling manufactured high-value goods like superior tools, warm coats, and weapons for rapid silver accumulation.
Mogul
Trade 30,000 Silver worth of goods to Societies
Run multiple simultaneous trade convoys exporting late-game manufactured surplus to hit the cumulative 30,000 silver benchmark.
Ranch Hand
Have 4 types of animals at Ranches simultaneously
Build four separate Ranches and trade for four different animal types—such as cattle, sheep, pigs, and chickens—from merchants or factions.
Slimy yet Satisfying
Have 4 types of insects at the Insect Farms simultaneously
Research Insect Farms in the Food tech tree, build four units, and assign a unique insect species to each farm.
Around the World
Have Outposts in 5 different biomes
Convert specialists into Pioneers on the World Map to establish outposts across five distinct biomes, including Forest, Desert, Tundra, and Plains.
Ice Lakes
Catch a fish with a Fishing Hut during a Winter Storm
Ensure a Fishing Hut has an active worker assigned and is heated by a Burn Barrel or Heater when a Winter Storm catastrophe hits.
War Never Changes
Defeat 10 Bandit camps
Attack bandit camps blocking World Map sectors using combat-oriented specialists, retreating to heal between fights if necessary.
Luxurious Living
Reach a population of 300 and have Houses or Two-story Houses for 300 colonists
Demolish all basic Shelters and Shacks once upgraded homes are ready, ensuring your entire 300+ population resides exclusively in Houses or Two-story Houses.
Spreading Influence
Have 10 Outposts
Deploy Pioneer specialists to establish outposts on resource or science nodes until you have 10 functioning simultaneously.
Aspiring Inventor
Unlock 10 Technologies on a single playthrough
Send specialists to harvest science research points from World Map locations to purchase early tech upgrades.
Rocket Surgeon
Unlock 80 Technologies on a single playthrough
Establish Research Outposts on the World Map and build colony Research Centers to generate the vast point totals required for late-game tech.
Bread and Circuses
Have a Bakery and 5 types of Entertainment buildings
Construct a Bakery alongside five different recreational buildings—such as a Campfire, Arcade, Cinema, Arena, or Library—at the same time.
New Eden
Grow 8 types of Crops simultaneously
Buy different seed types from trading societies and cultivate eight unique crop types across active fields concurrently.
Diplomat
Have a maximum positive reputation with 5 Societies
Max out positive standing by fulfilling trade contracts and completing diplomatic requests for five different societies.
Prepared for Anything
Store 100 Clothes and 100 Tools simultaneously
Run multiple Tailors and Toolshops or purchase large shipments via trade, briefly outproducing colonist wear-and-tear until both reach 100 in storage.
Fun and Games
Have 5 Game Arcades
Research Game Arcades in the Community tech branch, then construct and power five of them across your colony.
Look, no Hands!
Have 3 types of Automated Extractors
Research and construct three different unmanned extractors, such as the Automated Metal Extractor, Plastic Extractor, or Scrapper.
Finders, Keepers
Scavenge 50 World Map locations
Scavenger-class specialists gather items faster; systematically exhaust ruined buildings, stores, and supply depots on the World Map.
The Long Haul
A Specialist returns to the Colony with 4 types of Resources
Have a specialist loot multiple nearby nodes containing four different item types (e.g. food, parts, clothes, and science) before ordering them back to the colony gate.
Feng Shui
Have 15 types of Decorations
Place 15 visually distinct decorative items from the colony build menu; duplicate decorations do not count.
Mentor
Have 50 educated colonists simultaneously
Construct Schools near residential zones early so children are educated before aging into working adults.
Bookworm
Have 100 educated colonists simultaneously
Upgrade to High Schools and maintain sufficient classroom capacity as population grows so the educated ratio outpaces natural elder deaths.
Sky Burial
A corpse decays without being buried
Temporarily pause worker assignment on Graveyards and Catacombs or avoid building them entirely until a deceased colonist rots in the open.
A Closer Look
Use Photo Mode
Pause the game, open Photo Mode from the pause menu, and exit back to the game.
Amped Up
Have 30 Energy producers
Spam cheap power sources like Wind Turbines and Small Solar Panels until your total operational count reaches 30.
Top Notch
Have 10 types of upgraded buildings
Use the building upgrade prompt on 10 different building types (e.g., Tents, Water Wells, Medical Tents, Cookhouses) as you unlock their tech tiers.
Surviving the Aftermath - Szenarien & Benutzerdefinierte Spiele
Doomsday is canceled
Complete the Doomsday Bunker Project
Stockpile vast quantities of refined materials and energy well in advance. Completing the final phases of the bunker requires enormous resource investments and dedicated specialists to handle high-level research.
Choo-choo!
Escape the harsh winter by fixing the train in Cold Rush
Prioritize thermal protection and heaters along your logistical routes in the Cold Rush scenario. Keep a constant stockpile of firewood and parts to repair the train tracks without losing workers to hypothermia.
Finnished
Survive in the Endless Winter scenario for 100 days
Prioritize greenhouses, warm clothing production, and burner overlapping early on. Outdoor crops fail rapidly under perpetual sub-zero temperatures, making indoor food loops critical to lasting the full 100 days.
Tailored to fit
Survive until day 100 in a custom game
Tweak custom game settings to the easiest possible options—abundant resources, mild catastrophes, and resilient colonists—to breeze through 100 days with minimal micromanagement.
Customized calamities
Survive until day 100 in a custom game with over 250% difficulty
Adjust custom multipliers until the gauge exceeds 250%. Prioritize rapid world map scouting for emergency medical supplies and food early on, as local production alone rarely keeps up with relentless catastrophes.
Surviving the Aftermath - Alliances
Undercover
Complete all four covert mission types
Covert operations are accessed through constructed Embassies. Assign specialists to successfully carry out each of the four distinct operational mission types across the world map.
Best friends forever
Ally with a society
Reach the highest reputation level with any society to form an alliance.
Binary world view
Have two societies with maximum and two with minimum reputation at the same time.
Bring two factions to maximum reputation and two others to absolute rock bottom.
Diplomatic quarter
Have four embassies built at the same time
Construct four embassies for different societies in your colony at the same time.
Dynamic Duo [Missable]
Form the federation with just one society
Missable. Progress through the Federation questline while allied with only a single faction, ensuring you decline or ignore requests from any other society to join before concluding the project.
Federation forever
Form the federation
Successfully complete the Federation questline to unite all societies.
Surviving the Aftermath - Shattered Hope
Hero of the Wasteland
Complete "The Shattered Moon" quest
Prepare well in advance before triggering the later quest stages, as completing the questline requires robust resource stockpiles and experienced specialists capable of surviving high-tier world map expeditions.
Mean Boss
Overtime 100 buildings
Enable the overtime toggle in the management panel of eligible production buildings. You can pause the game and activate overtime across multiple workplaces simultaneously, but revert them promptly to prevent catastrophic drops in colonist happiness and hope.
Beacon of Hope
Hold a special feast
Construct a Mess Hall and stockpile the required luxury rations and supplies. Once the prerequisites are satisfied, initiate the feast directly from the building's action menu.
Surviving the Aftermath - Rebirth
Tower Defence
Build 5 Guard Posts
Build five guard posts in your colony from the security menu to unlock this trophy.
Timber!
Cut down 100 Blighted Trees
Have your colonists or lumberjacks chop down a total of 100 blight-mutated trees.
Pest Control
Kill 40 blighted creatures
Defeat 40 of the mutated, blighted creatures threatening your colony or appearing on the map.
Core of the issue
Destroy a Blight Core
Send your specialists to completely destroy one of the dangerous blight cores on the map.
Rebirth
Complete "Rebirth" quest
Unlocked automatically through story progression.
Post-Apocalyptic Paradise
Turn the entire map into terraformed soil
Set up an overlapping grid of Terraforming Stations across your entire colony map to purify all corrupted terrain. Ensure you have a massive surplus of energy, water, and basic materials ready, as maintaining full coverage requires substantial ongoing upkeep.