The cards are stacked against you in Against the Storm, a roguelike city-building game that's gearing up for an early access launch on the Epic Games Store. Not only do you need to quickly gather resources and protect your citizens from the ever-growing blightstorm, you've also got to figure out how to make beavers, lizards, and humans live together in something resembling harmony.
Your job as viceroy is actually a bit self-serving: you've only come out to the blighted wilderness in order to set up production camps for resources needed back at the Scorched Queen's Smouldering City, the last remaining refuge from the dark magic storms that have brought destruction to everything they've touched.
However, to do that, you'll have to enlist a civic army from whatever communities you can, and those include the aforementioned lizards, beavers, and humans. While the city-building component is strongly reminiscent of RTS games like Warcraft III, there's more going on here: you're almost constantly beset by impending disaster in the form of blight-fueled floods and forest fires.
View the full siteOriginal Article
