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Think of it like Factorio, but with exploration elements. These cartoonish behaviors make it a little easier to laugh through my tears when they inevitably get themselves killed.īut wait, it gets better! You do all of this as a mech on the surface of the planet.

They also have objectively perfect “joy” reactions like making balloon art. Their job preferences are adorable and you can assign them hats (personal opinion: the best hat is the rancher’s cowboy hat). They have a tendency to dig the floor away under their own feet, or nap on a ladder in a carbon dioxide pit. Let’s just say I was that kid who built half-finished rides in Roller Coaster Tycoon and then let ‘em rip on my unsuspecting guests. That is, unless you’re able to come up with some creative solutions-like waiting until your dupes pee themselves, and then converting the pee into clean water. You’ll need to generate enough oxygen and food to keep your colony going, which requires assiduously managing gasses, liquids, pressures, electricity and frantically Googling things like “layout for plumbing system.” By the time you’ve figured out something is wrong, it’s basically too late to fix it.

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Your job is to keep them (mostly) alive, in any way you can.Īnd that’s what I love about it-the bleak thrill of knowing you had to make ghoulish plays to survive, but avoided a full Donner Party situation (an in-game law called “Alternative Food Source” lets you cook your fallen brethren) or using child labor (shockingly, this law is called “Child Labor”).

As temperatures plummet, people get sick, begin to riot, and threaten to abandon the city. The only thing keeping the settlement from frosty oblivion is your firm hand, and judicious use of a massive, central generator-the only heat source. You're simply trying not to die as you lead an isolated settlement through a sudden, apocalyptic ice age during the Industrial Revolution. You're not worrying about micromanaging pathways or planning the routes every little worker is going to take each day. Where most city-builders I’ve played ask me to imagine the best version of an urban plan, Frostpunk feels more like taking the least bad path and hoping it will all work out.

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