Ashwalkers: A Survival Journey for Switch launches March 10

The Switch version of Ashwalkers: A Survival Journey will launch via Nintendo eShop on March 10, publisher Dear Villagers and developer Nameless XIII announced.

Spanish distributor Meridiem Games will also publish a special physical edition of Ashwalkers: A Survival Journey dubbed the Survivor’s Edition, which includes a special case, art book, and set of stickers.

Ashwalkers: A Survival Journey first launched for PC via Steam, Epic Games Store, and GOG on April 15, 2021.

“Ashwalkers is a melancholy narrative game offering an unprecedented amount of choice as players guide their party through its greyscale wasteland,” said Nameless XIII founder Herve Bonin in a press release. “Its small, intimate scale makes it perfect for Switch, where you can hold it close to your face and easily put it in sleep mode for convenience. It’s such a good fit for Ashwalkers‘ thoughtful, deliberately paced take on the survival genre.”

Here is an overview of the game, via its store pages:

About

A survival journey through a harsh world without rules or judgement, only the player’s choices matter in the face of moral dilemmas. They’ll have to manage the party’s food and equipment and find their way through a dynamic narrative survival sim with 34 possible endings.

Set 200 years after the first geological disasters a group of survivors called The Section set out into a ravaged world. Their goal is to find a safe haven to their people, but to reach it they face a post-apocalyptic wasteland full of complex moral dilemmas. Get to know the intimate dynamics, relationships and tensions between the brave captain of the group Petra, the pragmatic fighter Sinh, the young optimistic scholar Kali and the cautious scout Nadir as you travel the end of the world.

Key Features

• Make meaningful and difficult decisions in complex moral dilemmas.
• Discover a new path each time you play depending on your choice.
• 34 different endings.
• Get to know the group of four distinct characters.
• Manage your food, equipment and medication and protect the group from madness and despair.
• Travel and learn about this hostile world destroyed by a volcanic apocalypse.
• Seek and harvest vital resources in the wild.
• Overcome obstacles, violent encounters and the deadly climate on your journey.

Watch a new trailer below.