Submitted 11 months ago by Goronmon@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
https://techraptor.net/gaming/reviews/against-storm-ambient-roguelite-city-builder
Ah yes, a city builder, which is a genre pretty much opposite to the original Rogue, but make it like a lite version of Rogue. 🙃
I mean, I don’t really care. Words change meanings. But this one does hurt my brain quite a bit, trying to understand which parts of the Rogue formula they kept…
while I agree it might be hard to make, the two genres are not mutually exclusive
I’m not saying they’re mutually exclusive, I just find it tricky to draw information from that.
For example, I correctly assumed this to not be akin to Dungeon Keeper, which would be a city builder like Rogue in the sense of it being a dungeon crawler.
But at the same, I guess, I assume Against the Storm would have procedural map generation like Rogue did, even though I don’t really consider that typical for city builders.
And yeah, this fuzziness of the term ‘roguelite’ means I don’t really know how much city builder to expect…
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This game is so freaking good.
But beyond that, the devs are so freaking attentive. This is one of the few developer teams that truly felt like they were making a game alongside the audience.
vtguy@jlai.lu 11 months ago
I picked this game up a while ago but haven’t found the time to play it yet. Guess I’ll have to bump it up in priority…