Against the Storm

This is really a gem ****. While I'm rather positive-neutral about city builders in general, this game made me experience pure joy in a way I hadn't felt in years, savoring every moment like a child discovering their favorite game for the first time. Masterpiece.

I don't like the fact that the village resets every time you finish a chapter. When I play a building game, I want to see my city expands over the time.

A combo of rogue-like and city builder works surprisingly well. 15 hours into and I slowly start to feel the repetetivnes... But I don't want to judge too soon.

I'm convinced...well I mean more than convinced since there are literally copy and pasted reviews for this game everywhere on steam (check for yourself. 0.1 play hours with copy and pasted reviews. Just check yourself.) ... that the reviews are very very inflated artificially for this game. Over 10k OVERWHELMINGLY positive reviews since DECEMBER? FOR THIS!? It looks like OG WoW graphically, and plays like watching paint dry if it was somehow based on **** RNG where the paint dries slower or quicker depending on the RNG. Its a below average city builder with "rogue lite (lol no)" mechanics. Ok. 10/10? What? WHERE DID THIS TEAM OF "6" PEOPLE COME FROM? WHO IS THIS DEV? WHY DID I GIVE THEM MONEY? And yes, I "understand the game". Whats there not to understand about gathering resources? The game is just MID. And the design and core mechanics are DUMB AND BORING.

Another glaring case of "don't believe the hype". EXTREMELY grindy, repetitive, and ultimately massively boring. Roguelikes are supposed to be varied and never the same : here you'll waste your time playing the same map over and over and over again. RNG is clearly against you and will systematically avoid giving you the things you need to progress; according to the devs, "that's the point, you'll have to change your strategy ! and make the best with what you got !" Except when the RNG decides it won't give you that crucial, absolutely necessary building even after 8 re-rolls, well, nomatter how well you play, you're F'ed. Need a building to produce cloathing ? 95% of chances you won't get it : as soon as something is requiered from orders, it just stops showing up, period. Either you got it earlier, either you're f'd. I swear after 6 random choices, RNG STILL refuses to give you what you need. A lot of things just don't work in this game (way too many ressources make the game unecesseraly harder than it should be, RNG is wayyy too prevalent, a ton of buildings serve no purpose and are just mild variations of the same things). Worst part is the RNG, except you can remove "random", because the system is purposely unfair and actively works against you : if you're lacking 1 single building that would solve all of your problems, be sure you'll never, EVER get it. TLDR : overly complicated mechanics for the sake of being overly complicated, EXTREMELY repetitive (you seriously feel like you're doing the exact same thing over and over again), and the most agressively unfair RNG I've ever seen in a roguelite.