Among the current crop of settlement management games, a key and growing theme is conflict against an escalating threat. In Dwarf Fortress it’s everything from fell beasts from below to goblin armies at your gate. In RimWorld, you fight bandits and roaming robots. In Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Sim, you’re leading a handful of regular modern-day humans against the fire-and-brimstone demonic apocalypse itself, and all the armies that the underworld can throw at you. Today, it officially launches after two years in early access.

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