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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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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.
Popular achievements
First Real Expedition
Win a game in the Royal Woodlands biome, and on Settler difficulty (or higher).
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36.32%
Overcoming Difficulty
Win a game on Pioneer difficulty (or higher).
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30.77%
Coral Forest
Win a game on the Coral Forest biome.
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30.45%
The Marshlands
Win a game on the The Marshlands biome.
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32.36%
The Scarlet Orchard
Win a game on the Scarlet Orchard biome.
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30.96%
Taking Action
Win a game after completing 5 Glade Events.
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37.88%
No Deaths
Win a game with 0 villagers dying.
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37.7%
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Looks nice, plays nice, but ... If you encounter something you do not have the ressources to solve, you often just can terminate the session and start over again. And there is sooo much to set yourself into. Nothing is easy, whatever you do has disadvantages. It doesn`t matter so much that you cannot reload if you like this kind of games, but it`s just not my kind. I prefer games where it is not so frustrating to get control.
Great game, can be relaxing or infuriating depending on how obsessed you are with playing on high difficulties, complex enough where it will take you a few missions after the tutorial to fully get the hang of it.
Balanced just right so you can play in short-ish bursts of an hour or less.
This is a good true game, focusing on resource management of a whole lot of resources. It's not for everyone who is looking for a casual game, but for those who love to sink their teeth into a rare (if not completely unique) complicated puzzle city builder, then this will be a treat.
Mechanics are well put together with enough complexity to allow you to have some diverse playstyles at low Prestige (Ascension style, 0 - 20). I don't have enough time to have played on mid-high prestiges though the difficulty is well put together enough that it's likely it holds up
Only one real downside is because your buildings are offered to you at random there's a small chance you just get completely screwed. Not much you can do with all the Ale producing buildings the game gave you if there are no ale consuming buildings on your list. Doesn't happen too much and as meta progression gets further along you get enough control to make it less random, but the chance is still there and man when it happens does it SUCK.
Overall still a solid recommend.
Easy 5 star game. This is a rogue-like town builder with resetting world maps with various challenges and a plethora of difficulty and challenge options. You try to gain points through meeting the crown's demands and making your citizens happy before the queen becomes impatient and you lose the map.
Difficutly starts out very low at Pioneer difficutly but as you get into the Viceroy difficutlies and extra prestige levels, each of which adds a new penatly, you will have to start learning to min-max your play and really make the best of the limited building and cornerstone buff options.
Each session last long enought that it never overstays its welcome, you will win or lose the map and be able to move on to a new challenge right before you get tired of a town.
There are a variety of viable strategies to meeting the goal. There is a definitey push to complete maps quickly as the storm becomes harser and harsher each year, but you can still play a town after you won. Though TBH, for some of the harder ones, I pretty much barely kept things together just enough to win. I feel sorry for the Viceroy who gets stuck with the town after I ride off into the sunset ;-)
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