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Against the Storm DLC: Keepers of the Stone releases in September 2024

Coming with a buff amphibian species

Marco Wutz

Eremite Games / Hooded Horse

The frog is finally out of the pond: Against the Storm’s first DLC is called Keepers of the Stone and will be released for PC on September 26, 2024. The expansion will introduce Frogs as the new playable species that can join your settlements, adding their expertise in masonry to the local economy. Naturally, they also like water – a fact that could come in handy as Update 1.4, which releases alongside the DLC, will introduce a fishing system to the game for everyone.

Keepers of the Stone additionally has a new biome, buildings, orders, and challenges in store.

Alongside one of the new Frogs, the DLC’s artwork features what seems to be a giant hybrid between insect and mammoth as well as some carnivorous plants. Appropriately for the new arrivals there’s lots of water as well.

Against the Storm screenshot of a town built at the shores of a lake.
The new biome seems to be an area containing a big lake. / Eremite Games / Hooded Horse

Water, naturally, is a major element in the Frogs’ building style: Many of their structures include little waterfalls and pools to allow them to live and work comfortably. That giant water strider from the artwork is seemingly associated with the game’s new water system, as becomes apparent from one of the new screenshots, which features a villager riding the beast near the new Strider Port building.

The Strider Port’s description shows off an apparent new feature coming with the expansion: Expeditions. You can send out a brave water strider rider to search the nearby swamps for treasure and blueprints. 

Against the Storm screenshot of a port building with a giant water strider next to it.
The Strider Port is where you organize lake-borne expeditions. / Eremite Games / Hooded Horse

Another image from the expansion reveals an upgrade system for houses: Frog Houses can be leveled up four times to provide some bonuses to their inhabitants.

Looks like there’ll be plenty of new variables for players to consider when the roguelike city-builder’s DLC launches for PC on September 26, 2024.

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Marco Wutz

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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