A Post-Apocalyptic Civ Builder
Grow and manage the wasteland town of Holdout by providing food and water for your citizens, engineering and building structures, and defending against Raider attacks.
solo gameplay
Manage all six of your resources carefully over 6 rounds of gameplay, mitigating constant mishaps, recruiting special characters, and accomplishing scenarios.
why Holdout is unique
A simple dice allocation mechanism that forces you to choose between gaining resources, recruiting special characters, and managing mishaps that befall your town.
Learn more about Holdout in this 1-minute overview (from the 2023 Kickstarter campaign)!
Holdout
In Holdout, you will be building your wasteland home in order to make it suitable for daily life, including sources of water, food, and proper shelter. Realizing that there is strength in numbers, and through an innate desire to help other survivors, you hope to bring others into your settlement to form a cooperative community. Your ingenuity will be challenged, as creating something from nothing is not easily done. Your settlement will be a proud bastion of hope for the scattered survivors of the wasteland - and a target for the marauding Raiders who do not seek to help, but to destroy.
To win the game, you must achieve the goals for your chosen scenario by the end of six game rounds. These goals usually involve having achieved certain levels of resource development.
Quality Print-and-play
(Physical version in development)
The game is now available in digital PDF format (print-and-play).
A physical boxed version of the game is scheduled to release in 2026.
Watch a playthrough of the game by the designer, John Bailey!
