Of course, these workers are humans with needs, so the resources they gather will be used to keep them alive. Also making this task difficult is a novel day/night cycle citizens will only work during the relatively warm daylight shift. In fact, managing the finite number of workers is key to keeping the city going there will never be as many of them as you’ll want or need. I appreciate that Frostpunk limits the number of resources to around five, as there is room for supply chain complexity while still avoiding burdening us with an overabundance of different types of goods.ĭetermining how many workers to send to each stash is a decision you’ll make quite often. This aspect plays out like most real-time city builder or survival games, and your workers will trudge through the snow to bringing coal, steel, and wood back to the city center. Hope and discontent serve as metrics to indicate how you are doing.Īs the leader of this last city, the most basic task you have is to direct the workforce to gather supplies to keep the community going. Rather than selfishly building power over a tropical paradise, here you make decisions for all of what remains of humanity in the midst of a frozen wasteland. It’s in the gameplay, though, where Frostpunk shines, mixing up bits from various familiar strategy games into something like an inverse Tropico. Frostpunk is something like an inverse Tropico. But these issues disappear after playing for an hour or so.
For instance, it took me a while to find the button to build streets. Menus are typically clear, though certain functions and iconography are a bit unintuitive.
Workers carve paths in the snow as they walk, the sunrise splashes across the city, and fires illuminate the buildings around them. Though the graphics challenged my GeForce GTX 880M-powered AlienWare PC, they are bleakly beautiful. In fact, the sound of a cold wind is the first thing that greets you when launching a new game. Likewise, the sound design and voice acting pushes the harshness of the landscape. The overall aesthetic reminded me of a Victorian Game of Thrones, complete with lots of gears and swirling snow. Throughout, Frostpunk’s art style is effectively minimalistic and washed out, making each bit of color seem like a touch of warmth in the snow. This story is told through outstanding animations that help set a stark tone.
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