Do you wish Blizzard RTSes were less focused on combat and more focused on base-building and resource management? Do you wish city builders were only the exciting first phase of plonking down structures and not the dull mid- and late-game phases of perpetually revising the stuff you were already satisfied with as you run out of space? Do you find the way all the disparate, finely-tuned systems interlock in Darkest Dungeon compelling, but wish you could find it in something a bit less tonally bleak? Do you love fiddly worker-placement tabletop games but wish initial setup wasn't an ordeal in itself? Do you want to know what a city-building boss fight looks like? Heck, do you just really like checking off a to-do list?

I could go on and on like this. No game is the perfect game for everyone. But Against the Storm is the perfect game for me, satisfying a craving for a very particular experience I didn't even realize I wanted until I was putting hundreds of hours into it. It is unquestionably one of the most interesting genre fusions to come out in years, and if any of the things I just said piqued your interest, you owe it to yourself to give this game a chance.