Name: Floodland
Brand: Fanatical
Price: 2.99 USD
Availability: InStock

Deal overview

Floodland is currently 90% off on Fanatical — down to $2.99 from $29.99.

At 90% off, this is one of the deepest discounts Floodland reaches on Fanatical — near its typical floor.

That works out to $27 off the Fanatical list price of $29.99.

This deal is for the PC version. Click View Deal to open the official Fanatical page — prices and regional availability are confirmed at checkout, not by GamesCreed.

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About this game

Floodland drops you into a soggy, half-drowned world and asks you to rebuild civilization from whatever scraps float by. It’s a colony-builder with a climate disaster backdrop, but instead of the usual zombies or radiation, the threat is water: rising seas have swallowed the coastlines and left survivors scattered across islands and swamps. If you’ve ever wanted a management sim where the map itself feels hostile, this is that game.

How it plays

You start with a small group of survivors and basically nothing else. From there it’s the familiar loop of scavenging, building, and researching, but stretched across an archipelago instead of one contiguous plot of land. You’ll send people out island by island to gather resources, meet other groups, and decide whether to help them or leave them to their fate. Back home, you’re juggling the usual colony needs (food, shelter, water, health, security) while working through a branching tech tree to unlock new buildings and specialists. The twist that gives Floodland its identity is the law system: you actually draft the rules your society lives by, and those choices ripple outward, shaping how cooperative or fractured your population becomes. Since maps, events, and the mix of survivor factions are randomized each time, no two campaigns play out the same way, and starting conditions vary depending on which island you happen to land on.

Who it’s for

This one’s built for people who like their strategy games slow and cerebral: fans of city builders and survival management sims who enjoy poring over a tech tree and weighing tradeoffs between scarce resources. If you like the idea of legislating your colony’s future as much as building it, the law system will hook you. It’s less suited to players chasing action or fast feedback loops. There’s no combat spectacle here, just steady, methodical growth and consequence. If you find management sims tedious rather than meditative, or you want a game that hands you clear win conditions rather than open-ended survival, this probably isn’t your pick.

Is it worth it?

For the audience that actually wants this kind of slow-burn, systems-heavy colony sim, Floodland delivers a decent amount of replay value thanks to its randomized maps and factions, so you’re not just replaying the same opening every time. It’s a niche enough experience that jumping in during a sale makes a lot of sense, especially if you’re only moderately curious rather than already sold on the genre. If post-apocalyptic survival management is already a genre you sink hours into, it’s worth adding to the rotation; if you’re on the fence, waiting for a discount is the smart move rather than paying full price to find out.