Coal could be considered the most important as it fuels your generators and heat sources. Using workers, engineers, automatons, and even children, you’ll gather up four major resources: coal, food, wood, and steel. The most basic of these tasks is gathering resources. Your ultimate goal is to build you city from nothing, while you manage the many tasks before you.
We Live in a SocietyĪt its core, Frostpunk is a city-building sim mixed with a survival game. Along with the sounds of the loud clanks of steel, burning sizzle of coal, and various other well designed sound effects, you’ll feel completely immersed in the world. It was hard not to feel like a survivor on the Titanic, sinking to the bottom of the ocean as the band plays Nearer My God To Thee. Each building truly gives of the impression of steampunk meets the ice age, so 11 bit studios nailed that feeling.Īs you play and continue to feel the pressure of leading one of humanity’s last hopes, violins play in the background. If you zoom in the buildings, there’s quite a bit of detail that went into each one, with workers going in and out. Meanwhile, your workers are trudging through the snow, making little paths as they do. As soon as your fire up that generator, you’ll see the snow slowly melt away. When first getting into Frostpunk, it’s hard not to appreciate the graphics right away. It’s a great way to look back on the progress you made over the hours of playing. At the end of a campaign, you’ll be shown a sped-up montage of you building your city, while seeing your decisions appear on the screen, reminding you of the sacrifices you made to get there. We’ll go more into how exactly you do that later, but just know that your decisions matter.
From here, you’ll be making your own story.