A couple of highlights from Afterworld’s Steam page:
a Grand Strategy Game that is easy to learn but difficult to survive.
As your nation expands, your experience will shift from a small-scale, approachable beginning into a Grand Strategy as rich and complex as you have come to expect from Paradox games.
On paper, this sounds really good to my ears. I think they are pursuing the exact right goal here: making a game that is easy to get into (even for those who aren’t familiar with Paradox games), but still has depth.
Execution is what matters, though. I’m buying the idea in any case.