CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA

Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead. A turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world.

Games & graphicsC++#cataclysm#c-plus-plus#game#zombies#hacktoberfest

1.8 Steady Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 22, 2026, 12:33 UTC.

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About the project

A turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic procedurally generated world with zombies, monsters and crafting, written in C++ with open source code.

Useful for

Build the game from source on Linux, Windows or BSD following COMPILING.md
Install a stable release via a package manager (apt, dnf, pacman) or Flatpak
Study the C++ codebase to create custom mods or content

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

3 stars so far today, about 8 expected by the end of the day.
GitHub Trending C++ today: #8, +14 stars.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 13,214
Today: 3 · ≈ 8 by evening
Forks: 4,652
Issues and pull requests: 87,946
Watchers: 313
Language: C++
Latest release: cdda-experimental-2026-09-22-1201 · September 22, 2026
Created: September 26, 2012
Last push: September 22, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 22, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #8, +14 stars

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