Fit check
Is Waste Walkers worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Post-apocalyptic RPG fans who want survival meters and scavenging
- Open-world explorers who want many interiors and an underground metro area
- Players who prefer character development alongside colony management and randomized encounters
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a long central story may stop at the short main quest
- Players who want predictable encounters may bounce off the randomized events, loot, weather, and gameplay
- Players looking for a focused combat game may find the survival, crafting, exploration, and colony systems too broad
Our take on Waste Walkers
The likely bounce point is the survival loop: hunger and thirst remain active while players scavenge, craft, hunt, and fight. Players expecting a straightforward open-world RPG may hit friction when those systems combine with randomized events, loot, weather, and a player-managed colony.
What is Waste Walkers?
Waste Walkers is a post-apocalyptic role-playing game set after the collapse of governments, infrastructure, and society.
Players create and develop a character through equipment and skill choices, then explore a large city, more than 120 interiors, and an underground metro area. Survival systems include hunger, thirst, foraging, hunting, crafting, and scavenging. Combat includes mutants, bandits, wild animals, and other enemies, while randomized loot, events, weather, music, and semi-randomized gameplay vary encounters.
The game also includes a player-managed colony, an arena minigame, more than 55 side quests, a short main quest, lore, and a day-and-night cycle. Gamepad support is available after being enabled. The Prepper’s Edition includes the game and DLC with backgrounds, an art book, a four-part guide, the soundtrack, and a digital novella.
How Waste Walkers plays
- 01Open World Exploration
- The setting includes a large city, over 120 interiors, and a metro area nearly as large as the city.
- 02Character Development
- Character progression combines numerous equipment options with skill choices.
- 03Survival Systems
- Hunger and thirst accompany activities such as hunting, foraging, crafting, and scavenging.
- 04Colony Management
- A player-managed colony adds a management layer alongside exploration and combat.
- 05Variable Encounters
- Changing loot, events, weather, music, and environmental ambience vary the gameplay.
- 06Quest Content
- The game contains more than 55 side quests in addition to its main story.
- 07Gamepad Support
- Controller functionality becomes available after it is enabled.
Waste Walkers compared to similar games
Survivalist: Invisible Strain also combines open-world survival with colony building, but focuses on characters and relationships in a zombie-apocalypse setting. Force of Nature combines exploration, resource gathering, crafting, and management across more than 10 zones, while Waste Walkers centers on a post-apocalyptic city, over 120 interiors, side quests, and a metro area. Quasimorph uses high-stakes roguelike missions and corporate contracts rather than Waste Walkers’ open-world structure.
Waste Walkers: platforms & release
Is Waste Walkers worth it?
It is worth it if: post-apocalyptic RPG fans who want survival meters and scavenging. Skip it if: players seeking a long central story may stop at the short main quest.
Where can I download Waste Walkers?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Waste Walkers's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Waste Walkers on?
Windows only.
