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brew install cataclysm

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overview

Package summary

Fork/variant of Cataclysm Roguelike

Project links

Commands and aliases

cataclysm

history

Project history and usage

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is a turn-based survival roguelike set in a post-apocalyptic world. The official docs and README emphasize a persistent, procedurally generated world, scavenging, monsters, vehicles, and survival systems.

Project history

The official development-process documentation describes CDDA as a fork of Whales' Cataclysm, started by Kevin Granade, TheDarklingWolf, and GlyphGryph to make a grittier, more realistic zombie-apocalypse game from the same general concept. The same document credits the project's survival since 2013 to consistent project direction.

Adoption history

The upstream README documents packaging in Arch Linux, Fedora, Debian/Ubuntu, and Flatpak, plus stable and experimental downloads. It also says the project is the result of contributions from over 1000 volunteers, making it unusually large for a traditional roguelike packaged by Unix distributions.

How it is used

Homebrew's formula installs the terminal-oriented cataclysm executable. Players configure persistent game options in config/options.json and fonts in config/fonts.json, while world-specific options live under save/world/worldoptions.json.

Why package nerds care

CDDA is significant because it is both a game and a living data platform: huge JSON content, mods, experimental builds, curses and tiles packaging, and a long-lived open-source community all meet in one package. It is a stress test for game packaging because content, saves, mods, fonts, and releases all matter.

Timeline

2013: Official docs identify 2013 as the start of CDDA's steady post-fork development era.
2018-2020: Official history notes that some inherited original-Cataclysm material changed during this period.
2026: The README describes the game as the work of over 1000 volunteers.

Related projects

Related projects include Whales' original Cataclysm, the Cataclysm-DDA launcher, the official docs site, and distribution-specific curses/tiles packages.

Sources

security posture

Risk level: green

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risk classifier

green risk · low confidence · appliance

Why

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signals

metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Install behavior

No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
Installs with 8 runtime dependencies.
Build metadata lists 2 build dependencies.

Recommended review

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local files

Configuration and credential file locations

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Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix: config/options.jsonconfig/fonts.json

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`cataclysm`	cli	global executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08

manager version0.I

manager updated2026-06-18

local dataok

upstreamnot checked

latest detectednot detected

https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA

infoNo cached GitHub release or tag data was available.https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDAnone confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:cataclysm
Version	0.I
Package manager	Homebrew
Package manager page	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/cataclysm
Homepage	https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA
Repository	https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA
Upstream docs	https://docs.cataclysmdda.org/
License	CC-BY-SA-3.0
Source archive	https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/archive/refs/tags/0.I.tar.gz
Last updated	2026-06-18T02:28:55-04:00
Pulse	updated
Dependencies	freetype, gettext, libogg, libvorbis, sdl2-compat, sdl2_image, sdl2_mixer, sdl2_ttf
Build dependencies	gettext, pkgconf
Bottle	available (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-install	not defined
Service	none declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	cataclysm
Version Scheme	0
Revision	0
Head Version	HEAD
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	head stable

package graph

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source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/cataclysm.yml

Used sources

Geiger risk classifier
Nucleus package database
av.db category and tag curation
cross-ecosystem install command graph
curated configuration and credential file locations
curated package history
package relationship graph
package version freshness
package-page enrichment

Install cataclysm with Homebrew