The buildings that the player can place also impact the success of the city, such as keeping enough housing to satisfy the population and making sure there are enough buildings to satisfy the needs of the population. Beyond that, however, it’s up to the player to manage storage and gather enough resources to prepare for illnesses, disasters, and other such times when workers are unable to work. Gathering these resources seems pretty simple at first, as the game gives you a seemingly generous amount of deposits for the first few days. Along with coal, steel and wood are necessities to building and expanding your city, without which your citizens will become very discontent with the progress and development of the city. Your city will run entirely on steam power, and so coal is the biggest resource that players will need to stock up on and keep in store for the long nights and temperate fluctuations. The controls can be a bit intimidating at first, as the tutorial only tells you how to work certain aspects of the game at a time, but after a bit of trial and error, you can get to grips with the UI pretty quickly.Ī huge part of Frostpunk is preparing and managing your resources. Knowing this, the game can be quite tense, and I found myself very hesitant with the speed up button, fearing that if I played on the maximum speed then I would miss something or not utilise the working day as much as I would need to. One small mistake in resource management could mean game over, as being unprepared for the cold, or not having enough resources stocked up could mean the difference between your city thriving or collapsing. Not only will players have to maintain the energy and food supplies of their city, but they also need to make sure their citizens’ will to live is strong in order to create a thriving and surviving city. While comparable in mechanics to city builders such as Cities Skylines, Frostpunk manages to stand out and create a very memorable and challenging game.įrostpunk shares similar mechanics and UI to other city building sims, including building placements, population control, and keeping up with the needs of the citizens. Retailing at £24.99 GBP or $29.99 USD, the game was released on Steam on the 24 th of April this year. With this motive in mind, Frospunk is a suitably bleak but enthralling survival game, designed to make the player question their own morality and puts their survival skills to the test. 11 Bit Studios describe themselves as being: “devoted to creating and publishing meaningful games able to leave a strong mark on widely understood popculture,” and based on my experience with Frostpunk, you can definitely tell. It’s a game all about tough choices, deliberately introducing difficult situations to make the player question their morality. Developed by 11 Bit Studios, the makers of This War of Mines, Frostpunk is a grim city survival game set in a post-apocalyptic frozen Britain.
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