I picked up Against the Storm on sale yesterday. I’d had it on my wishlist for a little while cuz it looked interesting.
What a fantastic little game! I lost the entire evening to it! It’s a fun city builder that gives you objectives to work thru and when I get to the point where I usually start getting bored building a city, bam! Time to start over!
A big update just dropped for one of my favorite games of the year. The developers have been amazing supporting the game and communicating with the playerbase ever since it launched on steam in early access, the game feels extremely well polished and fun to play so check it out if you're interested in a challenging atmospheric...
Survival game where you learn to be a part of an ecosystem and slowly abandon your unsustainable "tech tree" replacing it with sustainable, local solutions.
A lot of games are trying to replicate very expansionist core loops, be it Minecraft's, Factorio's and so on, which see the player as a force acting on the environment / ecosystem, not working together with it.
Building on an older thread about #solarpunk#gameDesign , I recently played #againstTheStorm and I think it's a brilliant example of what I meant with the mechanic above:
You keep building an outpost. It might succeed or fail, but it's always eventually blown by the storm and you need to start anew. Yet every time you learn something, you improve a little, and the #rougelike element keeps the game fun.
Against the Storm - Leaving Early Access on December 8! (store.steampowered.com)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsuCV86Pf5Y...
Against the Storm - Ancient Seals Briefing | Features Overview (www.youtube.com)
Embark on a cycle-long journey. Grow your caravan, solve world map events, and resurrect the Guardian to close the Ancient Seal!...
Against the Storm - Embark on a journey in Cycles Reforged Update! - Steam News (store.steampowered.com)
A big update just dropped for one of my favorite games of the year. The developers have been amazing supporting the game and communicating with the playerbase ever since it launched on steam in early access, the game feels extremely well polished and fun to play so check it out if you're interested in a challenging atmospheric...