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One of the by-products of survival city builders is that a once-optimistic genre has become one full of stress and failure, typically of the post-apocalyptic variety. Against the Storm continues this trend, but kicks it up a notch. Even at the end of the world, where a magical storm is destroying everything and people are starving, I can still get fired from my desk job.
See, you’re not a freewheeling city administrator expanding however you like, but an expedition leader beholden to a queen, tasked with setting up outposts in the wilderness. These outposts exist to support the world’s last city, which sits atop a volcano. The appropriately named Smouldering City can be upgraded between wilderness adventures, with new buildings offering boons to help you on the next leg of your journey. You’ll need to travel across the
