I have fond memories from childhood of endlessly playing a strategy trading game for the Apple 2 called Taipan! Based on the novel by James Clavell of Shōgun fame, I'd spend hours in Taipan! sailing back and forth between ports, buying items like silk and guns and opium as cheaply as possible and then selling them at their most expensive.
Driving supplies from city to city to earn a fortune in scrap by buying low and selling high isn't the only thing you do in Dustland Delivery. You actually get to found and build your own city in the wasteland with the help of the characters you recruit. As you might expect in an apocalyptic landscape, you'll also run into enemies: in this case, swarms of infected, armored pirates, and more.
As a bit more enticement, Dustland Delivery entered early access back in July but it's just hit 1.0 and is nowThe biggest gaming news, reviews and hardware dealsContact me with news and offers from other Future brandsSenior Editor Chris started playing PC games in the 1980s, started writing about them in the early 2000s, and started getting paid to write about them in the late 2000s. Following a few years as a regular freelancer, PC Gamer hired him in 2014, probably so he'd stop emailing them asking for more work. Chris has a love-hate relationship with survival games and an unhealthy fascination with the inner lives of NPCs.