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Against the Storm

Released 8 December 2023$29.99 on Steam

Players recommending the game

94%Very Positive

of all 37,964 reviews on Steam, keys included

Bought on Steam 33,658 · 95%Keys 4,306 · 92%

Steam’s store page counts only copies bought on Steam, so it shows 33,658 reviews and 95%.

92%▼ 2

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Review Map Mapped 12 November

The latest reviewsReview Explorer members read any stretch of the game’s life.

What players talk about in the latest 200 reviews

Mentioned most

Hard to put down

The longest bar below
Close behind

Replayability

Nearly as often as Hard to put down
Complaint raised most

Slow and grindy

About a third as often as Hard to put down

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New Steam reviews each day

The last 7 days against the 7 before. Point atTap a day for its counts. Steam’s daily chart counts only copies bought on Steam.

Recommended, last 7 days43Not recommended, last 7 days3Recommend the game, last 7 days93%

New Steam reviews each day
DayRecommendedNot recommendedRecommending the game
29 October, 7 days before70too few
30 October, 7 days before90too few
31 October, 7 days before41too few
1 November, 7 days before50too few
2 November, 7 days before51too few
3 November, 7 days before40too few
4 November, 7 days before81too few
5 November, last 7 days60too few
6 November, last 7 days50too few
7 November, last 7 days81too few
8 November, last 7 days72too few
9 November, last 7 days30too few
10 November, last 7 days100100%
11 November, last 7 days40too few

Most helpful reviews, 5 to 11 November

Steam’s top-ranked review for and against the game in these 7 days, in English. Votes as they stood when this map was made.

Most helpful, recommending the game

I've played this game for well over 250 hours. It's a compelling single player strategy game with matches that are a reasonable length inside a meta narrative that holds it all together. The combination of randomized maps and a lot of different strategies with which to win makes this extremely replayable. If you want to compare it to other games it's somewhere between a fantasy Cities Skylines and Warcraft 3 but your opponent is the terrible weather rather than Orcs.

RecommendedPosted 5 Nov1 found it helpful
257 hours at review259 hours in total when mapped
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Most helpful, against the game

This is a tricky one. I love the concept and idea of a roguelike city builder, the artstyle is great and I love the feel of the game, but I never really found satisfaction while playing it. The game stacks so many mechanics and modifiers on top of one another that none of them really feel impactful or satisfying to engage with. Getting upgrades is incredibly grindy and I don't feel like each town is significantly different that it even warrants being a roguelike. The game is just too repetitive for me.

Not recommendedPosted 8 Nov1 found it helpful
33 hours at review33 hours in total when mapped
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Recommended by playtime

This week’s reviews, split by hours played, and how many recommend the game.

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Reviews by language

How many of the game’s reviews are in its main languages, with the rest together, and how many in each recommend the game.

37,964reviews
8 languages · point at one
LanguageReviewsSharePlayers recommending the gameThe line marks all languages together, 94%. The chip shows how far each language is above or below it.
English21,60357%
95%+1
Simplified Chinese5,85515%
92%−2
Russian2,3156%
93%−1
Korean1,6644%
95%+1
French1,0433%
96%+2
Polish8792%
97%+3
Traditional Chinese8472%
96%+2
Spanish5671%
98%+4
Other languages3,1918%

All reviews ever, as Steam counts them. Each language named has its own Steam score; Other languages holds every other language together.