{"id":764949,"date":"2025-11-28T04:52:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T04:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/cataclismo-a-city-building-rts-by-the-makers-of-moonlighter-gets-july-release-date\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T04:52:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T04:52:54","slug":"cataclismo-a-city-building-rts-by-the-makers-of-moonlighter-gets-july-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/cataclismo-a-city-building-rts-by-the-makers-of-moonlighter-gets-july-release-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Cataclismo, A City-Building RTS By The Makers Of Moonlighter, Gets July Release Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cataclismo-a-city-building-rts-by-the-makers-of-moonlighter-gets-july-release-date.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"Cataclismo release date\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" class=\"image-style-body-default\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Digital Sun, the studio behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/games\/moonlighter\/b\/playstation4\/archive\/2018\/05\/31\/moonlighter-review-gameinformer.aspx\">Moonlighter<\/a>&nbsp;and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2023\/03\/07\/the-mageseeker-a-league-of-legends-story-gets-april-release-date\">The Mageseeker: A League of Legends Story<\/a>, has announced its city-building RTS, Cataclismo, is coming in July.<\/p>\n<p>Cataclismo was first revealed last year and was successfully crowdfunded via Kickstarter. It blends real-time strategy with tower defense. Set in a world devastated by an event known as the Cataclismo, you must rebuild. During the day, this means you\u2019ll gather resources to construct fortresses brick-by-brick in a Lego-like fashion, along with placing soldiers and traps. Once night arrives, waves of monsters assault your stronghold, and you must repel them.<\/p>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameBorder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U9VsbTVsn1A\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>The game boasts realistic physics simulations (e.g., your strongholds collapse in a realistic manner, including falling debris that can squash enemies), and you can upgrade your fortress with improved building elements, troops, and more. In addition to a 30-hour story-driven single-player campaign, Cataclismo features a creative mode, a wave-based survival mode, and a battle-focused skirmish mode.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cataclismo launches on July 18 for PC, and has a free Steam demo available now.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2024\/03\/04\/cataclismo-a-city-building-rts-by-the-makers-of-moonlighter-gets-july-release-date\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital Sun, the studio behind Moonlighter&nbsp;and The Mageseeker: A League of Legends Story, has announced its city-building RTS, Cataclismo, is coming in July. Cataclismo was first revealed last year and was successfully crowdfunded via Kickstarter. It blends real-time strategy with tower defense. Set in a world devastated by an event known as the Cataclismo, you must rebuild. During the day, this means you\u2019ll gather resources to construct fortresses brick-by-brick in a Lego-like fashion, along with placing soldiers and traps. Once night arrives, waves of monsters assault your stronghold, and you must repel them. The game boasts realistic physics simulations (e.g., your strongholds collapse in a realistic manner, including falling debris that can squash enemies), and you can upgrade your fortress with improved building elements, troops,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/cataclismo-a-city-building-rts-by-the-makers-of-moonlighter-gets-july-release-date\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":764950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-764949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-informer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cataclismo, A City-Building RTS By The Makers Of Moonlighter, Gets 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