With a curtain of white snow and black smoke covering your city, figuring out what each building is can quickly becomes a chore. While the game is fun and more than a little challenging (I might have been exiled my first go round by my own people, the ungrateful bastards.) I found the most difficult aspect to be the interface. And if you think you have been, you probably haven't been doing enough. The days continue to get colder and colder, and while I won't spoil the big challenge, you better hope you've been multi-tasking. You'll have to pass laws, make hard decisions that will affect and end people's lives, and explore the wasteland for supplies and survivors, all while dealing with time limits and myriad issues that constantly crop up. You'll also have to keep an eye on your people, who come in groups of Engineers, Workers, and Children, each of which have limited ways they can be useful. Then, just when you think you're all caught up, things start to fail, the temperature plunges, and you realize that you haven't properly researched ways to keep that life-giving heat coming. Your number one job is to keep the furnace fueled so that your people have some semblance of hope, and after that, your people need shelter.
Frostpunk review full#
This is a heavy game, a nonstop barrage of hard decisions and impossible challenges, from rampant frostbite to full on insurrection and revolution. I kid, but honestly, Frostpunk is so dark that you'll need a humor break once in while. If you're unfamiliar with the genre and having trouble picturing the setting, just think of it like SimCity, but everyone's freezing, starving, and if you fail as mayor, you're either killed or exiled into the harsh frozen tundra, which amounts to the same thing. Everyone's lives are in your hands, and only you can make the tough decisions that will save or end every life in your city. As "mayor", this is where you make your stand against the elements. Your group finds a Furnace, which is sort of like an oasis in the desert, but turned on its head. In a last ditch effort to escape extinction, large groups have left their cities to search for refuge elsewhere. The world's crops are gone, millions of lives have been lost, and entire cities have been buried in snow. Set in steampunk Victorian England circa 1886, the world has been plunged into a deep and brutal cold called the Frost. It did always seem as if developer 11 Bit Studios had half an eye on a future console version though and the interface works remarkably well on a controller, making it easy to access all the options you need with the minimum of button presses.Frostpunk is a city-builder/survival game from 11 Bit Studios, with a surprisingly rich story, beautiful aesthetics, and a boatload of replay value.
Frostpunk review Pc#
The link below will take you to our original review of the PC original – one of our favourite games of last year – but the good news is that this console edition works extremely well, despite Frostpunk seeming to be a game that would only work well with PC controls. This leaves you to struggle with some very difficult decisions, that would seem monstrous in any other situation, but genuinely are for the greater good – or at least that’s what you tell yourself. For a start it’s set in an alternative history post-apocalypse, where the environment never recovered from the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 and you are in control of what seems to be the last human settlement on the planet, in the snowy remains of what used to be Britain. As you’d expect from the people that made This War Of Mine, Frostpunk is different.
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