Against the Storm update adds spooky ships and new ghost encounters

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An Against the Storm update just landed, continuing to build on the Steam Early Access game that’s already shaping up to be one of the best city-building games of 2023. It’s only been a couple of weeks since the Sentinels of the Forest update brought Fox people, the fifth playable species, to Against the Storm, yet there’s already more content on the way. This latest update introduces a spooky shipwreck, new ghost encounters, and much more.

Developer Eremite Games remarks on the “very positive” reception to the Foxes, and notes that a feature spot on the Steam front page has helped dramatically boost the game’s popularity. While the release of Sentinels of the Forest marks the completion of “the majority of the early access goals on the roadmap,” Eremite Games says that there are plenty more things on the way, and that a new roadmap is incoming soon.

For now, though, the Merchant Shipwreck update kicks off with exactly that – a giant, destroyed ship that can be found in one of Against the Storm’s many forest clearings. Finding it will present you with two decisions, offers an effect tied to trading, and can have potentially nasty consequences if not properly dealt with. In addition to this, Eremite Games have added new decisions to some older events that previously only had one option available.

Elsewhere, Living Matter has been completely redesigned and is now replaced with the Blood Flower. Several other gaps have been filled in too, with new deeds corresponding to the recently added modifiers, new ghost encounters (including some tied to the Foxes), and several new orders that demand tasks of you such as completing valuable trade routes or making a rapid expansion effort across multiple glades.

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