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Against the Storm

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4.7

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Against the Storm
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From city building to grand strategy, turn-based tactics to RTS, see more strategy games from Hooded Horse. You are the Viceroy – a leader charged by the Scorched Queen to reclaim the wilderness and discover lost riches for the Smoldering City, civilization's last bastion against the Blights...
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4.7/5

( 231 Reviews )

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Product details
2022, Eremite Games, ...
System requirements
Windows® 10 (64-bit), Intel® Core™ i3-530 (dual-core) / AMD® Phenom™ II X4 965 (quad-core), 4 GB RAM...
DLCs
Against the Storm - Supporter Pack, Against the Storm - Keepers of the Stone, Against the Storm - Ni...
Time to beat
34.5 hMain
100 h Main + Sides
251.5 h Completionist
84 h All Styles
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From city building to grand strategy, turn-based tactics to RTS, see more strategy games from Hooded Horse.


You are the Viceroy – a leader charged by the Scorched Queen to reclaim the wilderness and discover lost riches for the Smoldering City, civilization's last bastion against the Blightstorm that destroyed the old world. Unlike most survival city builders where your focus is on a single city, in Against the Storm you must build a vast, prosperous network of settlements populated by diverse fantasy races, each with their own specializations and needs.

The wilderness holds many hidden dangers, and never-ending storms will batter your population into submission. If your settlements should fall, then the expedition may end – but not the game. Against the Storm is a roguelite city builder, meaning you will carry forward the resources, upgrades, and experience of your past expeditions each time you set off for a new journey into the wild.





Foxes, Beavers, and lizards stand alongside humans and harpies in the struggle to survive. Utilize each group's strengths as you balance their varying needs, from housing and culinary preferences to taste in luxuries and recreation. Will you manufacture raincoats, brew ale, and bake pies to boost morale in the face of the oppressive hostility of the forest, or will you prioritize the needs of one species over another to operate more swiftly for the Scorched Queen?





Experience core city builder gameplay enhanced by roguelite replayability. Build and manage multiple settlements spread out across a large world map, all while collecting valuable meta-progression resources to upgrade the Smoldering City. Feel the pressure of an expectant monarch as the Scorched Queen demands constant progress while recurring Blightstorms pose an inevitable threat to your settlements. Manage your reputation to secure your success at any one settlement before moving on to establish another, constantly seeking new opportunities for growth, taking on unique challenges across multiple biomes, and bracing for the inevitable destruction of everything but the Smoldering City itself. How will you maximize each cycle to not just ensure the best fate for the Smoldering City, but for your career as Viceroy as well?





With hundreds of gameplay modifiers and 6 distinct biomes, every city location presents unique challenges for even the most resourceful Viceroy. Adjust your strategy to changing weather conditions and experiment with rosters of building blueprints and perks that can help your society thrive or bring it to ruin. Will you take on and complete additional objectives and delve deeper into the dangerous forest for potential boons, or will you approach with caution to ensure you operate within your capabilities? All the while, you never know what wares the Trader will bring next year, and the forest holds treasures and resources, but also ancient threats.





Laying the foundations for a new city is one of the most exciting moments in a city-building game. In Against the Storm, you'll have the opportunity to repeatedly experience this by creating new settlements, while still interacting with your network of previously established cities in a growing world.
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Time to beat
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100 h Main + Sides
251.5 h Completionist
84 h All Styles
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Posted on: September 27, 2024

othella

Verified owner

Games: 12 Reviews: 2

Fantastic generebreaking game

Although it seems to be another city builder/colony simulator it actually is not. Not exactly. The one of a kind rouge-like city building with lovely fantasy-cartoonish graphic, well thought mechanics, high replayability, interesting lore/narrative. Also Beavers


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Posted on: September 30, 2024

emppuka

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Games: 154 Reviews: 2

Relaxed but interesting

Nice mig of roguelike and city building, it is relaxed in pacing and intersting since it mixes up what you can do each round. The endgame is a bit lacking in depth though, but still worth the prizee!


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Posted on: October 4, 2024

MrCommunistGen

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Games: 52 Reviews: 2

Love it!

I love the combination of a city builder with roguelite. I also really enjoy that the game isn't overtly violent. Not that I'm against that kind of thing, I play plenty of violent games. But sometimes it just feels good to BUILD rather than destory.


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Posted on: January 12, 2025

Quakka

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Games: 124 Reviews: 2

Refreshing take on city building

The randomness of the blueprints you get for building each town and the curveball challenges served by the game make for fun and varied scenarios. There's a nice tension between the various ways you're being scored, this is somwhat reminicent of an euro style worker placement boardgame. Since each town only takes about an hour to finish, losing doesn't matter that much. Taking some risks is an actually fun and feasible thing to do, if everything goes sideways you can just call it quits and restart on a new board. I haven't looked at the DLC yet, but there is plenty here in the base game. I can see myself playing this for a long time to come, so I'm glad to see there's more content if I feel like I need it.


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Posted on: February 22, 2023

Early Access review

Xsiadz

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Games: 146 Reviews: 3

Hard to put down

Even in eraly access this feels like a well polished and feature-rich game. It's something very different from other city builders which are usually more sandboxy. Here You have a set goal and a time limit to achieve it and every game is slightly different with randomized buildings, perks, races, objectives, differentt biomes, modifiers, new meta-progression upgrades and a lot more. Also beacause You play in relatively short bursts I feel a lot less "burnout" but it definetely hast that "just one more game before bed" feel to it. Overall a very pleasant and interesting experience, lets see if it can keep up with the high expectations set by the early access.


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