A Post-Apocalyptic Civ Builder
Manage your wasteland town, challenge other settlements for leadership, explore the wasteland, enlist specialists, and defend against Raider attacks.
1-6 Players
Enjoy a nail-biting solitaire experience, or challenge up to 5 more friends to develop their own settlements with you and determine who will rule the wasteland.
why Holdout is unique
A simple dice allocation mechanism forces you to choose between growing your town, recruiting companions, managing mishaps, wasteland exploration, and more!
The previous version of Holdout was a simple, solitaire roll-and-write game.
The version currently in development will seat up to 6 players, and introduce a variety of additional mechanisms and gameplay depth. Subscribe to our newsletter and follow us here for more information on the game's development.
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 as a solitaire game in digital PDF format (print-and-play).
A physical boxed version of the game is scheduled to release in 2026 that will greatly enhance the game and seat from 1-6 players.
