New demo available!
[h3]Citizens![/h3]
The updated Against the Storm demo is now playable during Steam Game Festival. Try it out before October 13!
The new demo build has been improved since it was first available at Digital Dragons Indie Celebration. We would like to thank all players and Discord Pioneers for providing us with your accurate feedback. Keep those messages coming!
Play the demo:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1400860/
The main additions to the demo are a new event map and a new achievement, but that's not it! You will experience art improvement, bug fixes, and balance changes. You can check the full list of changes (compared to the last demo) down below.
[h3]Suggestions & reports[/h3]
Once you play the demo, please share your impressions with us and other players on Discord or Steam Discussions. We also encourage you to report any issues you encounter.
We want Against the Storm to be developed side by side with the community. Join our effort to make it a game we'd all want to play. Thanks!
[h3]New achievement & (same) Discord role[/h3]
We have added a new achievement to the demo: We've had one, yes. What about a second demo?
To unlock it, you must win the game with only 3 or fewer Orders completed.
Harvest Festival Achievement
Once you get the achievement, please contact us on Discord to get a special Pioneer role, which will grant you various benefits in the future.
[h3]Changelog[/h3]
- Added new event map
- Added new achievement: We've had one, yes. What about a second demo?
- ⚡ You now have 10 points to spend when starting a New Game. In addition to buildings, you can now pick resources and extra villagers.
- Traders are now more predictable.
- They won’t ever leave the village when seasons change.
- You can now check what goods is the Trader interested in by clicking on the Trading Post. The most valuable goods are different each time the Trader arrives. - Added additional alert and an icon above the Farm when it has no access to Farmfields.
- Added icons above buildings that have no access to the resource they’re gathering or they’re too far away from the resource to be efficient.
- Rebalanced meta progression. Apart from blueprints, you can now also unlock essential buildings that will always be available.
- ⚡ Added a new road type: Path.
- Cost: free.
- Speed increase: 5%. - Added new orders.
- ⚡ Added new perks (including an effect which is slowing down the Queens’ Impatience, as suggested by the community)
- ⚡ Updated and fixed the map - glades are no longer placed on the edge of the map.
- Glades can now contain buildings, even those you didn’t pick when starting the New Game.
- ⚡ Added a map description before starting a New Game to make it easier to pick appropriate buildings.
- Added new music tracks for each season.
- Improved visualization of how villagers’ Resolve is contributing to the Reputation (new tooltips).
- ⚡ Notifications now differentiate between villagers leaving and dying, while also giving some overall reason for the event. It should now be much easier to understand what happened to a villager.
- Villagers are now more talkative when clicked on. They will suggest what are their needs or what they are happy about.
- Added new portraits for each species.
- Every villager now has a female counterpart in the city (sadly, it’s only in the Villager panel, as there are no separate portraits and models yet, but the work is in progress ❤). - Added a new tutorial: Reputation for resolve.
- Added trade-off perks.
- Each resource now has a value indicator in its tooltip.
- Fixed a bug whereby the Back button would stop working and the game would stop responding to clicks on the map.
- Fixed bug whereby sometimes the glade with a building on it wouldn't reveal completely.
- Rebalanced Glades' rewards.
- Rebalance the Lumber Mill.
- Made Brewery cheaper in-game.
- Added Resolve & Needs Screen that should help better understand how Resolve, Stagnation, and Needs work and what’s their impact on your Reputation
- Added new perks
- Game-wide rebalance of needs, productions chains perks, and effects
- Various other balance changes.
- Various other graphical improvements.
⚡ - Community feedback
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If you enjoy the demo, please consider adding the game to your wishlist. It helps us grow!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1336490/Against_the_Storm/
We did our best to make the new demo shine!
Resolve thresholds