SalvageBound

For twenty years the Convoys kept us alive. Six years ago they stopped.

The Baron took the Road, the shops went dark one by one, and the dead walk the empty towns. Maggie's stall at the Crossroads is the last one left, and three weeks ago she walked north to find out what happened to the Hub. She left you the keys.

SalvageBound is a post-apocalyptic scavenging and shop sim. Head out into a big open world to search houses, cars and ruins for anything worth selling. Fight off the dead, then haul it all home and trade it to the travellers who follow your fire's smoke in off the road. Grow a roadside stall into a fortified trading post, with friends if you like.

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Scavenge a world that's falling apart

• A huge open world of towns, cities, farms, forests and back roads, every one a different place in every new world.
• Search everything: drawers, fridges, wardrobes, gun lockers, car glove boxes, cash registers. Every kind of container has its own sound, and what you take stays taken.
• Buildings you can go into: houses with yards and garages, stores and gas stations, police and fire stations, schools, hospitals, churches, banks, bars, libraries and post offices. Some are restaurants, each with its own name (Sal's Pizza Parlor, the Rusty Lantern, Golden Dragon Buffet...). They're crumbling, with paint and plaster falling away, roofs gone patchy and ivy climbing the walls.
• Push your way through: boxes, chairs and bins shove aside (a fridge barely budges), fences can be climbed and windows ducked through.

Survive the dead

• Combat: WASD, aim with the mouse, and the dead only stay down when the head goes. Shove, stomp, parry, swing a bat, or empty a shotgun.
• They grab you: one gets hold and you'd better shove it off before its friends catch up.
• Runners, screechers that call every zombie for blocks, hulking brutes, and packs of infected dogs that feed on the fallen and circle you between bites.
• Horde nights: every few nights the crows leave the city at dusk, and by midnight the dead are coming for your shop.
• The Baron's collectors come for their toll. Pay up, or fight his thugs.

Strange lands

• The Greenwater: a glowing toxic slick that burns to wade through, where the dead are thick and sick.
• The Flooded Lowlands: knee-deep water to wade through, drowned dead, the Docks, mist, frogs and fireflies over still water.
• The Salt Flats: cracked white crust, blinding glare, boats stranded where the lake left them, and dust devils.
• The Exclusion Zone: razor wire, burnt-out tanks, real minefields, and gunfire still rolling in from somewhere far off.
• The cold north: deep snow that takes your footprints, blood that soaks in red, and the northern lights rolling across the sky.

Run the shop

• Stock your shelves with what you find, set prices and serve the customers who walk in off the road. Haggle, trade, and keep the regulars happy.
• Build it up: upgrade the shop again and again, add a kitchen and a rec room, light it with a generator, and hire guards for the yard.
• Regulars with stories: sit by the fire with Doc Hattie, Rusty, Old Jeb, Pip and Tin, and each visit they tell you a little more.
• Follow Maggie's trail: convoy logs turn up in wrecks and pockets, piecing together what happened to the last convoy and who the Baron really is.

Alive and atmospheric

• Day and night, rain and puddles, fog, dust storms, thunder, snow, and frost creeping in when you're out in the cold.
• Fields of tall grass that part as something moves through them, flashlights cutting through the fog, crickets that fall silent when the dead are close, and a score that creeps in as danger closes.

Co-op

Play with up to 3 friends in the host's world over Steam or direct IP. Everyone can build and upgrade the shared shop.

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This is an early prototype, updated often. Expect rough edges and bugs, and tell us about them: there's a Report a Bug button on the title screen and in the pause menu that copies a report ready to paste into the SalvageBound Discord.

Join the Discord: discord.gg/NnqYMBZ8TW. Patch notes, bug reports, ideas, and people to play co-op with. Streamer, reviewer or tester? Ask for a key in #key-requests.

Windows. Keyboard and mouse.