Review Rigal 5/5 · Mar 3, 2025
Great Rogue like city building game
Great game, good mechanics to keep the feeling of progression.
Against the Storm (2023)
Nintendo Switch · PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 4 · PlayStation 5 · Xbox Series X|S
3.83 from 109 ratings
1332 members have it in their collection · 39 playing now · 735 backlogged · 47 wish listed
How long? · with extras 41h (from 1 logged playthrough)
Details
- Developers
- Eremite Games
- Publishers
- Eremite Games, Hooded Horse
- Genres
- Indie, Real Time Strategy (RTS), Simulator, Strategy
- Themes
- Fantasy
- Events
- Taipei Game Show 2024, Realms Deep 2023
- Steam
- View on Steam
Release dates
- Oct 18, 2021 (Beta) (Europe) PC (Microsoft Windows)
- Nov 01, 2022 (Early Access) (Worldwide) PC (Microsoft Windows)
- Dec 08, 2023 (Full Release) (Worldwide) PC (Microsoft Windows)
- Jun 26, 2025 (Full Release) (Worldwide) Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S
Related
DLC
- Against the Storm: Keepers of the Stone (Sep 2024) · NSW, PC
- Against the Storm: Nightwatchers (Jul 2025) · NSW, PC
Featured in lists
Rating distribution
5 stars
31
4 stars
43
3 stars
23
2 stars
9
1 star
3
Community All Reviews Statuses
Review anarchistica 2/5 · Jan 11, 2025
Not worth the many hours it requires
Playtime: 5h45m (2x2 tutorial missions, 1 normal mission)
Intro
AtS is a resource management game in which you build a small settlement while exploring a randomly generated map. The overal campaign involves doing a bunch of missions to get permanent unlocks, unlock nodes to extend the campaign and somehow eventually win.
First impression
A roguelike city-builder is a novel idea …
Playtime: 5h45m (2x2 tutorial missions, 1 normal mission)
Intro
AtS is a resource management game in which you build a small settlement while exploring a randomly generated map. The overal campaign involves doing a bunch of missions to get permanent unlocks, unlock nodes to extend the campaign and somehow eventually win.
First impression
A roguelike city-builder is a novel idea and initally i enjoyed it. The game randomly generates resources, buildings, missions and events. Completing missions gives you buildings and resources, unveiling new areas on the map (by cutting a path through the forest) reveals new resources and an event like items to gather, a trader, or some sort of crisis.
Randomness and shallowness
Ok, now look up at my playtime again. Doing just one mission took about 4 hours. And you have to do a ton of these, and each time you will get more and more events you have already seen, and you also have to deal with the randomness. If you don't get the right building or resource and you can't complete a mission and things can go very badly. A normal strategy game would have curated content and allow you to load savegames if something goes wrong. AtS does not. It also lacks combat, diplomacy, mechanical depth, characters, an actual story, et cetera.
Conclusion
AtS requires an investment of seemingly many, many hours while offering fairly simplistic, repetitive gameplay and very little control over what happens. It's interesting at first but i would rather just replay Tropico or something.
Review V1CGaming 3/5 · Jul 15, 2024 Abandoned
Against the Storm is a perfect storm: It’s a unique blend of genres that executes its ideas without any great flaws. Instead of motivating you to play ‘just one more turn,’ it tempts you into building ‘just one more city,’ condensing the thrilling allure of exploration and mechanical intricacy of a city-builder into runs that will fly by as fast …
Read moreAgainst the Storm is a perfect storm: It’s a unique blend of genres that executes its ideas without any great flaws. Instead of motivating you to play ‘just one more turn,’ it tempts you into building ‘just one more city,’ condensing the thrilling allure of exploration and mechanical intricacy of a city-builder into runs that will fly by as fast as raindrops in a hurricane.
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