Paradox says Afterworld isn't a Fallout grand strategy game, draws more on the Bronze Age

Afterworld content designer Luke Bean said in a dev diary that Fallout is not in the game's top five reference points, and that the post-apocalyptic North American grand strategy game owes more to study of the Bronze Age collapse. Its tribes treat the "ancients" as a mysterious empire, asking why they died if they could do anything with science. Each campaign simulates 100 years of calamity, with map generation choosing from several regional disasters that leave different scars.