All Will Fall—going by the full legal name «All Will Fall: Physics-Based Survival City Builder» on Steam—is nearly all of my favorite videogame things.
I'm a build mode girl at heart with a survival game fixation and a fondness for Valheim's physics-lite building. It was designed with me in mind.
Despite the dropshipper style keyword-stuffed store page name, the reveal trailer for All Will Fall does appear to be delivering on all of those little subgenre tidbits. «The world is dying, overtaken by the endless ocean,» says its store page. «You are the leader of a small group of survivors stranded on a rusty boat.
You find a small land area, solid enough to serve as a building foundation. And now, step by step, you build a city.» Designing a city already takes all of my brainpower when it's down on the ground but over open water things get trickier.
All Will Fall will make you build catwalks and scaffolds, precarious toothpick-looking bridges between a few sturdier concrete foundations. «You’re essentially playing Jenga with human lives at stake,» it says.