A personal pick for Game of the Year 2024, Against the Storm, is praised for its innovative roguelike structure and depth in the city building genre. Despite releasing in December 2023, the game's unique mechanics and challenging gameplay make it a standout title.
, each member of the PC Gamer team is shining a spotlight on a game they loved this year. We'll post new personal picks, alongside our main awards, throughout the rest of the month.
When I first started playing, I didn't really know what the game was. I expected something cute and cosy—you get animal folk as your citizens after all. A chill time, maybe a little darkness and foreboding for flavour. I couldn't have been more wrong. Against the Storm is devilish in its details, its structure finely honed to do away with the downtime usually typical of the genre. It doesn't look like it at first, but there is an amazing amount of depth and complexity here.
This balance—this struggle between reputation and impatience—is more than just an extra layer of flavour on top of existing mechanics. It sets the whole tone for what you need to do. Stability? Sustainability? Sensibility? No, not here. You're in a race for the queen's approval, and nothing else matters. Nothing is permanent—the resource nodes you find are limited—and so the onus is on you to reach your goalbefore everything goes wrong.
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