Cloudy with a chance of mead halls.

There’s just so much more to it, offering endless depth and complexity - if you want it.

I need the blueprint for that building, which will roll randomly from a pool of available blueprints.

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This sounds like utter chaos, and it can be!

Or maybe a bottleneck of planks preventing me from building the tavern.

I wasn’t gaining any new blueprints until I worked it out, though!

Screenshot of Against the Storm, showing glowing tiles where a path is about to be built in a default settlement with only a hearth and warehouse

The wild swings of fate all happen within that space.

The best example of this is the impact of hostility and the storms.

Against the Storm accessibility options

UI is re-sizeable.

Screenshot of Against the Storm, showing a partially constructed settlement in an surreal-coloured forest.

Lightning flashes, screen fog and motion blur can be toggled off.

Full mouse and keyboard remapping.

I could have recovered from one of these things, but not all three.

Screenshot of Against the Storm, showing a stylised illustration of the world, and captioned ‘Your goal is to help rebuilt the Smoldering City, and secure the future of the Queen’s subjects.’

Surely the result of both a well-laid plan, and some excellent rolls against chaos.

A copy of Against the Storm was independently sourced for review by Eurogamer.

Screenshot of Against the Storm, showing a choice of four cornerstones, which are unique buffs, and the option to re-roll or decline them for gold.

Screenshot of Against the Storm, showing the embarkation screen where you can select your caravan of starting settlers and buy various resource bonuses

Screenshot of Against the Storm, showing a path of settlements on the overworld stretching from the centre to a Gold Seal

Screenshot of Against the Storm, showing a settlement under high hostility, where many settlers have negative resolve and some have already left

Screenshot of Against the Storm, showing a large decorated hearth at the centre of a settlement, with a tooltip explaining its importance