It’s the end of the world and everyone needs to pitch in, I say.įrostpunk gives you many choices through its Book of Laws mechanic, which can either turn you into a saviour or a sinner. The game brews discontent by having them constantly be in need of something, whether it’s food, warmth, or for you to stop making children do laborious work. While I can empathise with the plight of the people in Frostpunk, they are incredibly difficult to please. They can perform most of the tasks that your normal workers can just as effectively if not more so with one very worthwhile bonus: they don’t complain. These steam cores allow you to create an evergreen food supply through hothouses, factories to provide prostheses for the frostbitten, and, most impressively, gigantic robot spider things last seen in 1999’s Wild Wild West. As well as coal to keep the fires burning, you will need wood for construction, steel for more advanced construction, and steam cores for the biggest game-changers, which are seldom easily available. Eventually, however, you will need to spend time on improving your technology to include mines, thumpers, and even machines that can extract materials from the walls of your crater. As each new scenario begins, you have a fair amount of workers and engineers at your disposal, who can gather finite resources scattered around the ground. The main meat of your time with Frostpunk will be spent trying (sometimes desperately) to keep the generator running. It worked: after a few hours, I no longer even winced when the frostbite set in and the numbers dropped like flies. Frostpunk seems to rather deliberately nudge the player towards grasping total power, which is surely a statement on how corrupting power actually is. Once you arrive at your hollowed out crater, it’s time to oversee a society and help them to prosper, or to shape it in your own image and desires. When the world is plunged into freezing chaos after a natural disaster in the 19th century, the remnants of humanity make their way to the only hope left: gigantic heat generators designed to sustain life. Or so I told myself.įrostpunk is a game that asks plenty of questions, which shouldn’t be a surprise as it’s the newest game from the guys behind the also challenging This War of Mine. Sure, I somehow enacted a totalitarian state, had my enemies executed, and watched on as the common folk froze to death in their tents, but I couldn’t have done anything differently. No matter how many times I failed during Frostpunk, that’s what I kept repeating to myself.
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