My beavers are damp, my queen is angry and even the forest hates me in this roguelike city builder.
, where it launched in early access this week. Even though gloomy city builders are increasingly common—I've got two more to play after this—it has a few tricks that set it apart, like your impatient boss and an unusual roguelike structure.
Happy villagers net you more reputation, and maintaining a certain level of happiness is a common objective, so your settlements can't be entirely utilitarian. Having various species with distinct needs makes this task pleasantly tricky—not to the point where you're focusing so much on making people happy that your other tasks will fall by the wayside, but enough so that you'll always be looking for opportunities to improve the mood of the settlement.
Failure means the expedition is over, though resources and upgrades you've made to the Smouldering City are persistent, giving you a hand when you start your next one. And each little city-building challenge might be the one that ends you. The queen's displeasure constantly grows, and while you'll find yourself with plenty of objectives to help you raise your reputation, the random nature of Against the Storm means it's very likely that you'll find yourself in a pickle.
This flexibility extends to your industries. Everything that your citizens can craft can be created from multiple sources. So the booze I desperately needed to create required barrelspots. I was just unlucky that I couldn't find resources for either. But that's why I should have spent more time expanding the outpost and pushing back against the wilderness: to search for new nodes.
These glade events make expansion a lot less perfunctory—it's actually exciting. Once the lumberjacks chop down the last tree that's in the way, what are you going to find? A huge reward? Or maybe a poisonous miasma? The forest is a fickle place. It also might be sentient. As you chop down trees and expand, it grows hostile, upsetting your villagers more and more until they flee.
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