Against the Storm: The Board Game

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The Blightstorm has driven civilization to the Smoldering City, the last stronghold against a hostile wilderness. As the Scorched Queen's Viceroy, you are sent beyond its walls to establish new settlements, recover lost resources, and push civilization outward once more.
But no settlement is meant to last forever. The forest is dangerous, resources are uncertain, and every expedition is a race to build something strong enough to endure the worsening seasons. When the Blightstorm finally returns, the cycle begins anew, with each expedition strengthening civilization for what comes next.
Against the Storm: The Board Game is a cooperative city-building game based on the acclaimed roguelite strategy video game by Eremite Games.
Each player leads one of seven distinct Species: Humans, Beavers, Lizards, Harpies, Foxes, Frogs, and Bats. Each brings its own strengths, weaknesses, needs, and unique abilities to the settlement. You share a city and its resources, but your species gives you your own priorities and ways to contribute, making cooperation about more than simply deciding together what the best move is.
Each year is divided into three seasons: Drizzle, Clearance, and Storm. During every Season, each Viceroy chooses one of six Agenda cards — Organize, Expand, Exchange, Discover, Revel, or Defy — and performs a selection of its actions. Through these Agendas, you welcome newcomers, turn the Queen's blueprints into buildings, lay roads, move and assign workers, expand the settlement into new glades, trade, fulfill your villagers' needs, and respond to the challenges facing the settlement.
You cannot do everything yourself. One Viceroy might concentrate on securing new resources while another develops the settlement's production, fulfills the Queen's Orders, or deals with a dangerous discovery beyond the treeline. Knowing when to pursue your own species' strengths and when the settlement needs you elsewhere is the core of the cooperative puzzle.
At the heart of the game is its production economy. Assign workers to buildings and establish interconnected production chains that turn basic resources into increasingly valuable goods. Production happens automatically at the end of Drizzle and Clearance, allowing the settlement's economy to grow increasingly sophisticated without requiring players to manually operate every individual building.
As your settlement grows, so do its demands. Fulfilling your villagers' needs raises their Resolve. During Drizzle and Clearance, high Resolve can earn you Reputation with the Queen; during the Storm, that same Resolve becomes a matter of survival as the wilderness turns against the settlement.
Orders from the Queen, solved glade events, and retrieved caches offer further paths to Reputation. Your goal is to earn enough before the Queen's Impatience catches up with you, because every year spent struggling in the wilderness gives her another reason to doubt your abilities.
Like the video game that inspired it, Against the Storm: The Board Game is about adaptation rather than executing a perfect plan. The forest, available resources, building blueprints, glade events, orders, and the needs of your species create a different puzzle from settlement to settlement. Build an economy from what you find, divide responsibilities between highly asymmetric species, and adapt from season to season while staying one step ahead of the storm, and the Queen's rising Impatience.

—description from the publisher