Three Moves Ahead 545: Against the Storm

Three Moves Ahead

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Strategy, Games & Hobbies, War, Strategy Games, Games, War Games, Video Games

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Rowan, Jon, and Ian Boudreau talk about Against the Storm, an early access city-builder that forces you to abandon your cities after a set amount of time. How do these shorter runs affect how we approach the genre? What does a beaver need, on a deeper level, to be happy? And why were we so eager to do an episode on this when early access city-builders are thick on the ground these days?

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to another episode of Three Moves Ahead.
0:04.4	I am your host, Rowan Kaiser.
0:06.7	Today we are joined by PC Games in, senior news writer Ian Boudreau.
0:13.2	Hey.
0:14.7	And freelance writer and generalist curmudgeon, John Bolding.
0:19.8	That's me.
0:21.9	Master of the Swamps.
0:24.7	Lord of the Swamps, said he.
0:28.0	Master of the Swamps is good.
0:30.8	Today, we are here to discuss against the Storm, a recently released early access
0:37.3	city builder on the Epic Game Store.
0:41.3	John, you are usually our Early Access City Builder expert in that we say,
0:47.2	hey, this new Early Access City Builder came out and posted in our Discord and you say,
0:51.8	eh, maybe later. But this one, against the storm,
0:57.0	you actually came and said, no, we need to do a show on this. It's true. So what about
1:04.8	against the storm makes it stand out from literally hundreds of other city builders on Steam
1:10.1	and Epic and Itch and various other platforms.
1:14.1	Against the Storm does two things that I find interesting.
1:19.3	One is that it destroys your cities.
1:23.1	It takes them away from you.
1:24.6	And just like a fundamental part of the game is that the amount of time you get to spend with any given city is limited by its nature.
1:33.9	After a certain amount of playtime, you get a score because this is a fantasy world city builder, sort of an alternative type fantasy, not your standard high fantasy.
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