Against the Storm

A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

Against the Storm is a strategy, simulation and city builder game developed by Eremite Games and published by Hooded Horse.
Released on December 08th 2023 is available only on Windows in 18 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Italian, Czech, Hungarian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Thai and Spanish - Latin America.

It has received 28,953 reviews of which 27,551 were positive and 1,402 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.3 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam and has a 50% discount.

The Steam community has classified Against the Storm into these genres:

Strategy Simulation City Builder RTS Sandbox Real-Time with Pause Base-Building Management Resource Management Building Colony Sim Open World Grand Strategy Survival Singleplayer Moddable Economy Historical Replay Value 4X

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Requirements

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Windows

OS: Windows® 10 (64-bit)
Processor: Intel® Core™ i3-530 (dual-core) / AMD® Phenom™ II X4 965 (quad-core)
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTS 450 (1 GB) / AMD® Radeon™ HD 7750 (1 GB)
DirectX: Version 10
Storage: 5 GB available space

Reviews

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Nov. 2024

This game is pure crack to a strategist's brain. Despite having a very heavy focus on economic management and not so much on combat, it just fully sucks you in with each decision you make and each settlement you establish. Which was unexpected for my usual play styles in games. One big contributor to that is difficulty: the game features 4 basic difficulties that range from easy to more tactical, but if you like pain that rewards the heavier thinking where you're pausing the game every few seconds, there is a progressing difficulty system that goes from Prestige 1-20. Once you beat the previous, you unlock the next. And on top of that, there is a pile of events and modifiers on the map that you can settle next to for even more types of challenges. No matter how much I master the game's mechanics I am constantly questioning my abilities when I dive into a game that's massively stacked against me. Another thing I love: playing for a purpose. I won't go into all the lore since you can discover that for yourself, but ancient terrors are starting to breach into the overworld, and it is your settlements that will eventually lead to you locking them into the void forever. If you have what it takes. This actually rewards you from a gameplay perspective in a significant way: since each time you close up another seal, your "cycles" will become longer allowing you to do more settlements and interact with more events and modifiers before everything resets. I'm not one to role play much in games but I do like the feeling that I'm saving the world as a mastermind leader. 10/10 can't recommend enough.

Oct. 2024

You know the moment. The moment you know you've won. The moment when a strategy game run goes instantly from exciting to tedious. Because you've won, so why bother now ? For the achievement maybe ? Sure... You've started hundreds over hundreds of Civilization, Endless, GalCiv, AoW, Old World, Total War or other games. How many did you finish till the very end ? If you're like me, a few dozen. It's just not fun to button-push when the struggle is gone. But here, when the game is finally won, it's the end of the game, give or take 2 minutes. The exploration & struggle phase is until the end. And when it's the end, it's time to restart again, a new, harder exploration & struggle phase with a different twist. It's the most captivating game that has any relationship with a map, units, resources, and it blows my mind it's not even a 4X, considering I've nearly played them all, since Civilization 1. A total absence of enemy military, and yet, there's quite enough adversity. I've seen more victory (or defeat) screens with Against the Storm in a year than with a lifetime of Civilization. That means something.

Sept. 2024

Against the Storm is one of the very best games ever created. I have hundreds of games in my Steam library, and if I had to pick 1 single game to play for the rest of my life, it would be Against the Storm with almost no competition. I have never simped as hard for a game, as I am about to in this review. Other survival city builders (which I also love) often run into the problem of being 'solved' after you spend enough time with them. You know what you need to build, and in what order, and then you've usually more or less got things under control. Against the Storm's drafting and random resource nodes make every game an unknown challenge. The difficulty can be set high enough to consistently challenge even veteran players, and it simply never gets old. Pushing the prestige difficulties feels super rewarding. The new player experience is perfect. The way the game introduces new mechanics over time does an amazing job of easing new players into a rather complex game. The number of quality of life features in the UI (more of which have been added, frequently) is superb; all game designers should be studying the interface options in this game. The constant time crunch is oppressive in the best way, doing an amazing job of keeping the tension high. The horrible cello(?) sound effect that plays when a race's resolve is too low, is horrible in the best way. I could keep going, but it would probably be redundant at this point. I do not have a single bad thing to say about this game. I really don't. I've thought about it often while playing and of course while writing this review, and I truly think that this is just a perfect game. 12 out of 10 and I can't wait for the DLC coming out later this month. I thought I had already reviewed this masterpiece of a game. My bad!

March 2024

This is not a city builder/colony sim. This is a project management simulator. Rather than building a city that stands the test of time, your goal is to hit key metrics within a given timeframe using the resources at your disposal. While there is a wide range of facilities to build and resources to gather, your goal in any given map will only require focusing on a specific subset of them. The roguelike elements of the game will mean that sometimes your deliverables are super easy and in line with the resources that were generated, and sometimes they will require a bit more of a roundabout route. To be honest, the more I play the game, the less I enjoy it, but that's just because I'm looking for something else in terms of gameplay. For anyone looking for a game that basically simulates an extended crunch time Against the Storm is a good buy for a fair price. For anyone looking to spend more time with their settlements and seeing them grow overtime, you'll have to look elsewhere.

Jan. 2024

Do you wish Blizzard RTSes were less focused on combat and more focused on base-building and resource management? Do you wish city builders were only the exciting first phase of plonking down structures and not the dull mid- and late-game phases of perpetually revising the stuff you were already satisfied with as you run out of space? Do you find the way all the disparate, finely-tuned systems interlock in Darkest Dungeon compelling, but wish you could find it in something a bit less tonally bleak? Do you love fiddly worker-placement tabletop games but wish initial setup wasn't an ordeal in itself? Do you want to know what a city-building boss fight looks like? Heck, do you just really like checking off a to-do list? I could go on and on like this. No game is the perfect game for everyone. But Against the Storm is the perfect game for me , satisfying a craving for a very particular experience I didn't even realize I wanted until I was putting hundreds of hours into it. It is unquestionably one of the most interesting genre fusions to come out in years, and if any of the things I just said piqued your interest, you owe it to yourself to give this game a chance.

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