''Burntime'' is a strategy/RPG video game for

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and

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produced by

Max Design Max Design GesMBH was an Austrian video game developer based in Schladming, founded in 1991 by Wilfried Reiter, Albert Lasser and Martin Lasser. The company is best known for creating the Anno (series), ''Anno'' series. The company was closed dow ...

in 1993.

Plot

The game is set in a

post-apocalyptic Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction are genres of speculative fiction in which the Earth's (or another planet's) civilization is collapsing or has collapsed. The apocalypse event may be climatic, such as runaway climate change; astronom ...

future, based on the three stages of every civilized society: ascent, heyday, and downfall. Burntime starts at the end of a flourishing

civilization A civilization (also spelled civilisation in British English) is any complex society characterized by the development of state (polity), the state, social stratification, urban area, urbanization, and symbolic systems of communication beyon ...

. The main goal of the game is to conquer the remaining habitable areas, as well as to survive.

Gameplay

To progress through the game the player must establish sources of food and water. The player must then clear out hostiles and hire

mercenaries A mercenary is a private individual who joins an War, armed conflict for personal profit, is otherwise an outsider to the conflict, and is not a member of any other official military. Mercenaries fight for money or other forms of payment rath ...

to guard the location. Armor can be found in the form of protective suits, and all elements of a suit must be collected for full protection. There are three classes of mercenaries: doctors, technicians, and fighters. Fighters are good at defending areas and killing monsters. Technicians are needed to combine scrap items to produce working items (for example, wire, screws, and a woodpile will produce a rat trap, a great source of food and income). Finally, doctors will heal the player and their men if they keep them over a period of time.

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* * 1993 video games Amiga 1200 games Amiga games DOS games Europe-exclusive video games Max Design games Multiplayer and single-player video games Post-apocalyptic video games Role-playing video games Strategy video games Survival video games Video games developed in Austria {{rpg-videogame-stub