Manor Lords publisher Hooded Horse and developer Eremite Games have today announced that the award-winning dark fantasy roguelike city builder (is that enough genre terms for ya?) Against the Storm will be making the jump to Switch on 26th June.
This one launched on Steam in late 2023 and has since gone on to rack up over 1.5 million sales with a whopping 28,000 'Overwhelmingly Positive' reviews. QLOC (the dev that previously brought Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice to Switch) has been brought on as co-developer here, overhauling the UI to better suit console play.

Once you get around all those genre terms, Against the Storm is a pretty simple premise. You have to lead a team of elite settlers on their quest to establish colonies and collect resources. The problem is, the 'Blightstorm' comes around every once in a while and pushes you back to step one. With your army of humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies, you'll have to withstand the challenges of creating a civilisation and try to build something that can hold back the weather — a bit like camping in the British summertime, really.
The game is set to be localised from English into German, French, Spanish (including Latin American), Italian, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Thai, and Japanese, so expect to see the city building instructions being read around the world.
For those who enjoy a bit of city building, this looks like a sure-fire winner, but we like how the strategic gameplay appears to scratch a roguelike itch, too. Sure, we'll likely all be distracted with Switch 2 by late June, but the magic of backwards compatibility could make this a winner once we've polished off Mario Kart World.
Have you tried out Against the Storm on PC? Will you be picking up the Switch version? Let us know in the comments.
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The city building aspect seems like a lot of fun, but the apparent "roguelike" aspects have me a bit concerned. I'll have to check the reviews. Seems promising, though.
This looks pretty cool. I'm not sure about the rogue lite elements. It may get annoying after a while having to rebuild your city from scratch after the Blightstorm. We'll see
This is so my thing, but if the textures are blurry and the framerate is uneven, then I'll have to pass. I'll keep an eye on this though.
I was just looking to see if this was coming to Switch yesterday. Nice.
Have somehow never even just heard of this game before, seems like a pretty good one based on the trailer and what's mentioned in the article so I'm happy that it's coming also to consoles including Switch for those interested in it (potentially me included at some point - not anytime soon though between the games I'm currently playing and the upcoming Switch and Switch 2 ones I've already preordered mostly physically discounted and that I want to play as soon as possible)!
city builder? Yes please.
roguelike? Ehhhhh
I have put quite a bit of time into this on Steam and will definitely be double-dipping provided the port is decent. It's a very addictive gameplay loop (similar to old city-builders like Zeus) but sessions are nice and snappy because of the rogue-like mechanics and modifiers that provide different challenges in each settlement.
For anyone wondering about the roguelite aspect, each settlement takes about an hour or more to complete; there's a 'time limit' of having to gain enough reputation to succeed before the Queen's impatience maxes out; and that settlements (win or fail) will gain you meta resources to spend on permanent upgrades and mechanics.
Each 'cycle' will allow you to build multiple settlements on the world map to try and reach a seal to reforge (as is the main objective) before the blightstorm resets the map over.
City builder? Awesome!
Roguelike? Even more awesome!
Consider me interested as a fan of both genres!
Oh, I ADORE Against the Storm! If you're the type who loves to start cities in city-builders, but starts to lose interest once everything's up and running smoothly, this game's for you. The Roguelike element means you're always starting a fresh new city with unique challenges. It's brilliant.
Never heard of em
"magic of backwards compatibility"
Riiight
Still not very magical
The Harpies better not be clothed!
$45 for a mobile game?
I'll wait for a sale!
roguelike = instant Pass
My favourite city-building game on PC, this game really is amazingly designed. As everyone here has already mentioned, if there was ANY game that could get you into city-building and resource management, it’s this one. Can’t say I’d enjoy playing this with a controller myself, but if they add cross-saves and mouse controls down the line, they can take my money again.
@RadioDog
Did you happen to play the original Age of Wonders?
If so, how similar is this to that?
@Spider-Kev I did not play the original Age of Wonders, although I do intend to eventually try out the latest entry. To my understanding, the latest Age of Wonders entry is more akin to the 4X genre (turn-based strategy, directly controlling units), while Against the Storm plays more like a shortened and simplified version of an Anno game (real-time resource management, with an emphasis on building placement).
@RadioDog
Never heard of anno... Haha
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