Oakenfold

About

Oakenfold is a turn-based strategy roguelike where you guide a lone survivor through a dying Earth. Using a device called the TimeScrubber you can rewind actions to perfect your moves outsmarting swarms of hostile Biocides. Each run requires careful planning as you juggle resource management terrain manipulation and direct combat. Your goal is simple but grueling keep a convoy of fuel crates safe while navigating collapsing ecosystems and ambushes. The grid-based combat lets you push enemies into hazards or turn them against each other but one misstep means respawning from scratch. The game stands out for its tight feedback loop of planning execution and revision. Studio Taghua blends emotional stakes with mechanical depth as you play as Asha a daughter carrying her father’s legacy through apocalyptic ruins. With no multiplayer options it focuses purely on its tense single-player loop. Released in 2022 it carved a niche among strategy fans craving depth over spectacle. The Himalayan wasteland setting and stark art style amplify the sense of isolation making every successful escape feel earned.

Storyline

Asha is one of the last humans left on Earth. A young woman on the brink of its extinction, she is the final hope for humanity in a world that treats her like a virus. Asha grows up living in defense. With her father by her side, they survive the apocalypse by trekking through the wastelands of the Himalayan region. Her father teaches her everything he knows about how to survive in this new world. Hunting, scavenging, and fighting her way through each day, all with a kind heart and steely determination. Ever the mentor, her father injects a final hope for humanity in his daughter: his life’s work, the last human settlement, the biodome called Oakenfold. It will launch into the stars with the last remnants of humanity aboard, ready to start anew. Asha, now a young woman, is alone. While they embarked on one of their many journeys to the power plant, her father, and the rest of their collection team, perished in a biocide attack, where he protected Asha from getting stabbed by shielding her with his own body. Though the death of her father is painful, Asha must continue the mission the two of them had set out to complete: to retrieve the last of the fuel-packed crates to power up Oakenfold’s systems.