
Charcoal
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
TRANSITION TO WAR INSTRUCTIONS
Charcoal is a post-apocalyptic 4x game set in the UK. Instead of building cities in unexplored land, you found scrappy towns in the ruins of old cities. Find loot, then build up your towns to be self-sufficient. Equip your survivors with the vehicles, weapons and clothes you find in the world. Build a new paradise on earth or destroy all your opponents.
How to play
- arrows keys and wasd to move to camera
- left click to select units or towns
- right click to order a selected unit to move
- Find resources to survive
- win the game by defeating all other groups of survivors. Or by building your group to 100 survivors, 5 towns and +50 rations per turn.
Credits
- Jam bone, Coding, art
- Preatomic prince, Coding
- Music tracks, 80s song pack by Elektrobear
- Sound fx, Horror sound effects by YourPalRob
All sounds and music in the game are currently placeholders.
Thank you to everyone who gave name suggestions, we'll add add your names when we come to adding credits inside the game.
Feedback
If you can leave feed back either in the comments or in the google form attached that would be greatly appreciated.
https://forms.gle/2UEdsNotEJBNPNKi8
We also have a google doc for suggested city names, if you suggest something we use we'll put your name in the credits.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfqCiIIH0NjYDIqRcwKv0c-l2IOhRDaFw9N9slq...
| Updated | 12 days ago |
| Status | Prototype |
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| Authors | jam_bone, preatomicprince |
| Genre | Strategy, Survival |
| Tags | 4X, Post-apocalyptic, Turn-based Strategy |
| Content | No generative AI was used |
Development log
- Too big to fail/it's a start12 days ago
- 7 mechanics in a trench coat, pretending to be a game43 days ago
- It’s the economy, stupid!Oct 30, 2025
- It’s Civ, but it’s also Fallout?Oct 07, 2025






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