So you know how when you play a city builder in a challenge mode (e.g., deliberately poor resources, certain industries disabled, no immigration, etc.), the game starts out interesting as you try to figure out how to deal with the challenge while building up your basic city? And then becomes boring and/or tedious once you've gotten far enough into your city?

Against the Storm is basically just all of the first part of that with none of the second part. Every map is a new set of challenges you have to figure out, but by the time you would get to the point where you have effectively "solved" the challenge, the game accelerates you to the map's endgame conditions (you either win fast or lose fast) and then starts it all over again once you're done.

So you know how when you play a city builder in a challenge mode (e.g., deliberately poor resources, certain industries disabled, no immigration, etc.), the game starts out interesting as you try to figure out how to deal with the challenge while building up your basic city? And then becomes boring and/or tedious once you've gotten far enough into your city? Against the Storm is basically just all of the first part of that with none of the second part. Every map is a new set of challenges you have to figure out, but by the time you would get to the point where you have effectively "solved" the challenge, the game accelerates you to the map's endgame conditions (you either win fast or lose fast) and then starts it all over again once you're done.