I love Against the Storm because it breaks city-builder games
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Date: 2024-02-01
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Comments and reviews: 5
underdog353777
Against the storm is really clever - and part of what makes it work so well as a roguelike is that you learn methods for overcoming challenges. You learn how many of your unreplaceable parts you can sell to traders to get just enough gold to get by - you learn what tool is best saved for certain events - you learn that sometimes calling a trader early can snatch you out of a jam - and you learn how to best juggle resolve and favoring to edge out a bit more reputation or keep villagers from leaving. And you learn this intuitively through play, because each system's cause and effect is relatively clear.
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Against the storm is really clever - and part of what makes it work so well as a roguelike is that you learn methods for overcoming challenges. You learn how many of your unreplaceable parts you can sell to traders to get just enough gold to get by - you learn what tool is best saved for certain events - you learn that sometimes calling a trader early can snatch you out of a jam - and you learn how to best juggle resolve and favoring to edge out a bit more reputation or keep villagers from leaving. And you learn this intuitively through play, because each system's cause and effect is relatively clear.
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kajnake5905
Yknow this might actually be the one thing to fix my anti city builder stance. I love them, greatly enjoy putting down a few buildings and watch my little ants go to town, but as it grows more advanced it requires less and less player input to function. Great idea from the devs!
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Yknow this might actually be the one thing to fix my anti city builder stance. I love them, greatly enjoy putting down a few buildings and watch my little ants go to town, but as it grows more advanced it requires less and less player input to function. Great idea from the devs!
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banquoviaquo9220
While I'm not sure I agree with the first hour idea (my My Life as a King files are all treasured for their final town layouts) this does look like a gameplay loop I could really settle into.
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While I'm not sure I agree with the first hour idea (my My Life as a King files are all treasured for their final town layouts) this does look like a gameplay loop I could really settle into.
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polygon
I find some difficulty in riding out city builders to 'completion', so something that expects you to move on after a couple of hours might help someone like me.
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I find some difficulty in riding out city builders to 'completion', so something that expects you to move on after a couple of hours might help someone like me.
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peter_shoes_
excellent video! but the building that makes barrels is called a COOP-erage rather than a co-OP-erage, like the guy who makes barrels is a cooper.
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excellent video! but the building that makes barrels is called a COOP-erage rather than a co-OP-erage, like the guy who makes barrels is a cooper.
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