Apocalypse XL
A downloadable game for Windows
A game about a bunch of dysfunctional college students surviving the end of the world. Everyone gets a mutant super power and the main character’s is being able to eat a ton. You know exactly why I made this game.
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Ngl I enjoyed this game more then I thought the casual shenanigans amber casually drinking 10 gallons of water lol
I gotta say, as I proceeded through the current content I was constantly surprised that it kept going and I didn’t hit into an eternal hiatus stop point, because I forgot that the update I downloaded was actually rather recent. Holy hell, that’s some dedication in this project.
love the game but every time i open it, all my saves gets deleted
so at this point, everytime an update comes by, i just speedrun the game to see the new content
This is likely an issue with your file explorer, you might have the game's folder or the folder it's in set to read only. I'd bet there's solutions online for this that apply to all RPGMaker games, see if Google tells you anything.
If you're having the issue when you're transferring versions, you can copy the folder called "save" in the "www" folder from the old version to the new one. That should keep all your progress!
Love this game. Has a genuinely interesting story and fun characters. Not to mention Amber's shenanigans are pretty hot. Great game!
Also I did get stuck, and I'm not sure what I'm missing or if it's a glitch? I'm doing the hospital quest, and I went room by room until I found the room with ultrasound equipment, Jay gave Janet and Amber the checkups. I try to have them continue with the key card, however the game keeps insisting I go through all the rooms. I went ahead and backtracked through all of the rooms, just touching everything. I only missed having Amber eat a magazine at the very start. The game still says I need to go through all of the rooms.
I loaded the oldest save I had where I had just finished in the pharmacy and went through the whole area again and Jay still keeps saying I need to go through all the rooms. I have no idea what I'm missing.
Everytime I open this game, I get a warning popup about... something ?
Something about ''error in profile'' and about the NW.js version. I don't even know what 'NW.js' is !?
I can still play the game, but that's rather confusing.
I also have no idea what this means. If the game still runs it's probably fine?
I could post a screenshot (like, on Imgur) of it, though it's in french (language of my computer).
It really does nothing, just ignore it. happens in most of these rpg maker games sometimes.
I spent far too much time on this, but minor corn related spoilers
I forget his name, but corn man conspericy theorist's morse code text is:
For the love of god, free me from this corn prison, I beg you.
Jimmy you asshole I'm still alive in here!
I still don't believe it. If only I wasn't imprisoned within this husk, I could tell them all!
Go ahead. Jeep screaming "shut the fuck up" at me! It only makes my opinions worse.
will this game appear in the steam?
0.20 Is absolutely hilarious. I was not expecting character growth in the context it was meant to be in. lmao
I've found myself stuck on the room with fish jumping across the path? I can get so far but the part with three fish in a line seems impossible to get past! Does anyone know a good strategy?
Came for the fetish content, stayed for the story and comedy. I was suprised by how compelling it ended up being!
Was it on purpose for a trans character to not understand why their friend is not happy to have had a massive change to their body forced on them against their will? Especially since the only outward change said trans character got was dog ears and a tail while the other one changed into a reptilian plant creature?
Its especially fucked up when they express this by constantly telling their friend "Nah just accept it, you got powers now!"
bro quit yappin,
This gets explored heavily throughout the game, Amber takes a bit to understand but it eventually clicks that Janet's experience is similar in that regard. Janet is meant to be an allegory for what being trans feels like.
Mkay, thats what I thought. Thanks for the reply
Preface: At no point during this update was Summer running the counter, so you could only buy food from the vending machine and not healing items. I don't know about other people, but I usually end up using 1-2 bandages per fight. There were probably other examples of Summer being missing, but this update was probably the most noticeable as you were supposed to prepare to leave on this big mission, but you were unable to check/supply yourself with the appropriate supplies. Janet's KCal doesn't fill fast enough to reliably rely on her for healing in every battle, so bandages are the go to healing item.
Suggestion: Have a way to either purchase Bandages (or other items other than food) from the vending machine, or a way to access Summer's shop when she isn't available.
i feel like this game was made with me in mind like legit trans girl that can burp well and has gluten allergy straight up describes me
I started playing again after missing update 18.1 and I gotta say, I initially thought the only character that was genuinely stupid was Rachel, but I was wrong. Amber doesn't have a single braincell in her Dog-eared head. Janet must have absorbed them through a mutated variant of photosynthesis.
Edit: Posted this comment way too soon. I met Wires.
RIP Cat lmao
Only complaint is that Napalm is a fuel thickened with aluminum hydroxide, not Styrofoam and gasoline; styrofoam and gasoline makes something called styropyro. Other than that 10/10
I can't find the thermite material.Please tell me.
It's all in the lab room, there's a pile of metal scrap you can scrape material off with the file in the cabinet.
How did that Burger Guy beat that
To transfer your save, open the “www” folder in your previous instillation, and copy the “save” folder into the new version’s “www” folder.
Looks like there's a minor bug when running this through linux on proton - one of the songs appears to be Funiculì, Funiculà, which, when downloaded, results in broken ASCII boxes. This results in an incorrect filename which causes loading errors during the pizza scene.
Fixing it locally is as easy as changing the relevant filename to Funiculì_Funiculà.ogg, but it might just be best for you to remove the accented letters from the filename and code? That should avoid any weird errors like this
I'll remove the special characters next update.
Just a heads up, this sounds like an encoding issue, and even if you change this filename it’s likely to cause future issues.
What’s almost 100% going on here is that the filenames are getting mangled on decompression, as unicode support/implementation in ZIP is kind of a shitshow.
Basically, by default ZIP assumes the encoding of the system you’re extracting to is the same as the encoding on the system that made the archive so when you open it on Linux (an OS that’s bothered to properly implement unicode) stuff gets screwy.
Rather than renaming the file I strongly suggest using software that encodes in UTF-8 by default (PeaZip does this.
7-Zip doesn’t seem to and requires a special option set that would probably be too annoying to figure out if you aren’t the kind of nerd I am.
This shouldn’t cause any issues for computers that are newer than Y2K lol.
This should fix the issue this person is having but do a test with the default windows extractor.
Create your archive with PeaZip, extract it with windows, and make sure the filename is correct. If everything looks good you should then always use PeaZip (or other software known to probably encode in UTF-8) to create your archives and never have this issue again.
I see SO MANY troubleshooting threads caused by this EXACT problem and unfortunately the only solution is using better software.
Anyone know morse code? I wanna know what corn dude was saying
Edit: know that I think about it, it was probs more "the virus is a conspiracy" bs, wasn't it?
It was a full blown conversation between them, with Corn dude trying to say he's still sentient a ton and being ignored
I love raccoon...
Still having the Save Problem apparently, any work arounds for that?
Guys I MUST bring to attention that The Nipple has an interaction later in the game if you don't throw it away (It's just like 2 lines of dialogue but STILL- Body swap section:])
LOL that is actually awsome!
been loving the game so far but I have come across an issue I can not open my inventory so I can no longer save, My last save was the forced one at the Halloween fight and I was up to the mall level and died. If i could get some help it would be very appreciated.
This could happen if you went through a section that disables the menu and somehow missed the trigger to enable it again. This is meant to be impossible, I'll look through that section to see if I missed something. If this happens you can fix it by opening the sidequests board since it runs the disable/enable menu command.
Thank you for the help, It is going to be a pain to get back to where I was but at least I should be able to save again thanks.
Potential spoiler?
got the game a few days ago, and i got to the part where Jay examines Amber and Janet, and after the second ultrasound once Amber ate some stuff i accidently went into the room again and it played through the scene again then the game broke, Amber floated of screen and its locked in that room i can't exit and made the mistake of saving before closing the game because the last time i saved was 2 hours of game play previously and i just wanted to ask if there is anyway to fix this or do i have to start a new game? Thank you in advance.
If your game softlocked you have to load a previous save, I'll try to figure out what caused this, sorry about that
No problem, i like the game enough that i dont care that i have to restart. Keep up the good work!
MAJOR SPOILERS, DON'T READ IF YOU HAVEN'T COMPLETED VERSION 17!!!
Is this far enough to make it collapse by default? I hope so. I wish this text box had spoiler options (or if it does, that it made them obvious).
||I don't buy that we are the ones who caused the outbreak on the island, for two reasons: 1, the tent encounter, and 2, the sleeping guy. It makes no sense that we could infect one person, and then in the time it takes us to walk to the next area two other persons not even near the person we infected are already infected themselves. My theories: either the island was already infected (and the leader was refusing us because Someone was controlling them), or the giant rock Levi threw at the island served as an infection vector. We know the virus can work fast once you are exposed to it, but if the military had actually been as dedicated to preventing an outbreak as they claimed to be, then the infection would still need to spread either person-to-person or in the air, and neither of those explain what we saw on the island.||
yeah when i saw the rock being lobbed i instantly thought of that
i need some help I'm stuck in the checkup room i have no other saves i cant move i just got the key card amber is standing to the right of the trash can in the bottem left of the screen janet and jay are standing the center of the room not moving
How many plushies can you get from the claw machine? I've gotten two so far...
I didn't count em, but there's a respectably sized selection available. Plus, there's a message once you get em all, so you know when you can finally stop mashing the z/enter button. Takes a while though, and as far as I can tell you don't get anything special besides the plushies themselves from sittin there and doing it, so only bother with it if you really care.
is there a way to continue a older version of the game to the newest version? or do you always have to start from scratch?
Yes, just copy the "save" folder inside the "www" folder from the old version to the new version. This generally works for all RPG Maker games unless the new version breaks save compatibility.
^this is correct
thank you so much!
Madison tummy...
The collision inside of the candy baron appears to be really out of whack. Granted, it's a trivial side area, so it's not meaningfully impactful, but the left half of the room is mostly missing collision (incl. the top left wall tile), and most of the buckets have no collision.
whoops! that room is basically the pier's appendix I should probably just remove it
how do you complete the cans with the boxes level
Push either of them to the bottom of the area onto the conveyor belt
Thank you for the tremendous help Zenthick
is there any way to move the two cans in the level with a lot of boxes
You just walk into them and push like any push puzzle. If you're using mouse controls try using the arrow keys instead.
Thank you and can you pls tell me how to beat that level too
Can I just say, the Janet-only fight is bullshit? The enemy is immune to both blind and poison, making half of her kit unusable, it deals way too much damage for not having a tank character present, and if it happens to proc confusion then you just lose the fight no matter what. I have tried this thing multiple times, and every time I wind up getting confusion and dying with no counterplay.
The hound fight is without a doubt extremely brutal. I got through it by swapping all accessories to max out defense, using root at the start of the fight, then just spamming unload and heal powder until victory. As for the confuse effect, you just kinda have to hope that doesn't proc.
Sorry about that, RNG is the worst. I'll take a look at this fight and see if there's anything that can be tweaked to make it more consistent.
I think just removing the enemy's ability to inflict confusion would make it okay. It would still be a difficult fight, especially with Janet's best defensive option and most consistent offense option (blind and poison) being unavailable, but it would at least be possible.
I would say that any time a fight is solo, CC effects probably shouldn't be inflicted on the player character because without teammates there's no counterplay. You either are lucky and don't get CCd or you are unlucky and probably die. With teammates you can heal or status cleanse the CCd character as a counterplay, but that's not present in solo fights.
tried lookin up a walkthrough on the hospital looping rooms section, couldn't find one, but I am completely lost and unable to progress. Found the alarm button and the cake room (if that one's important), not much else. Anyone know what I'm still missing, or am I being a total smoothbrain here?
Fastest path from the starting room:
UP
RIGHT
PRESS WALL BUTTON
LEFT
DOWN
LEFT
DOWN
LEFT
you know, i just realized, since it is stated that the more Amber eats the more heat she emanates, its only a matter of time until they cook meat on her and feed it to her