Recent reviews by BROngo Fette

Addictive gameplay, fascinating game mechanics, and a beautiful interface. I Love it.

Do you like the idea of physics but have trouble with actual physics? BOOM! This game gives you the idea of physics without all the calculators or reality. Thermodynamics!? You know nothing about thermodynamics? You gon' Learn toDAY! Bio-hazards and atmospheric control? Come on in my fellow human, it's got five ways to choke your people to death in the first 100 cycles.

Be prepared to google a how-to and find out that while you've been banging rocks together, other people who play this game have ascended to a higher plane of existence and are playing 5d chess. I've got 1000 hours in and I think I'm okay at finger-painting.

This is a Civ building Sim with survival and engineering elements, and a cartoonishly endearing design.

Want stupid citizens with no self preservation who follow instructions exactly, or not at all, no in between? Klei has you covered. You want incredibly complex yes-no automation logic? Look no further! Have you ever wondered why all of your resources say 0 but you can see the pile of coal you need? Right here is the place for you!

We got buckets of ways for you to fail here. They can starve, they can suffocate, they can heat stroke. They can build themselves behind walls, inside water tanks, under floors, they can disassemble bridges from the other side. They can pick up 1000 degree diamonds from next to the 3000 degree lava without so much as an oven mit!
All of this before we get to radiation poisoning, sleep requirements, medical care, AND WHY IS BURT EATING ALL THE FOOD IN THE ENTIRE COLONY!?!!

But wait! There's more! with rocketry and a star map you can relive each of these wonderful and challenging risks IN SPACE! Wherein, if you've made a mistake in your planning and execution that colonist is a corpse who hasn't died yet.

This game is a roller coaster of emotions that travels up the hills of frustration, down the stomach rolling drop of success, then thrown into the corkscrew of why-are-you-starving-there's-food-right-there!?, on to the double loop of why-is-everything-overheating?!?! Only to finish up with the doom spiral of I-checked-the-wrong-box-with-the-deconstruct-tool. Then it's back to the station, and grab a new seed or use the old one and go for another procedurally generated ride!

There's also a super friendly button right at the beginning that turns the difficulty to off. Literally a "You can't fail" setting. Which is another thing on a long list of things I wish I could use, just once in my life.

There's a sandbox mode to experiment with that feels so much like cheating my ex would have moved into it. It's her dream home, infinite free resources, no rules, no repercussions, and no actual work required to build and or destroy anything you see fit. Add the ability to add and subtract people at will. It's like a little heaven coded just for her.

My friend saw me playing Against the Storm and recco'd this beauty of a digital masterpiece. I'm so glad she did.
Klei hit a grand-slam with this game. If you laughed, Try the game. I have nothing more to say.