Posted on: May 6, 2018
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An emotional experience.
Frostpunk is Steampunkish city-builder set at the end of the 19th century. After a series of cataclysmic volcanic eruptions, Earth is plunged into a new ice-age. A small band of refugees must survive any way they can. You are their 'Captain' and must take charge, fire up their coal-powered generator tower, and see them safely through the long, cold winter... The attention to detail, graphics, music and general Steampunk atmosphere are great, and the hard choices and grim consequences that I had to deal with throughout really made me connect with events and the poor little computer people as they froze and starved. I was eventually forced to adopt either 'Order' (think Communism/Fascism) or 'Faith' (religious fanatacism) to keep control of your people - I chose Order and tried to be a reasonably benevolent dictator, but it's possible to set oneself up as Supreme Leader with secret police, torture, propaganda centres etc. By the time I made it to the end of the first scenario I was genuinely moved by what had happened and was very impressed on the whole. Powerful stuff. A few flaws - progress in the early stages is very linear; without knowing what things to build early on it is very easy to get chewed up by the first bit of real cold, and even though later on there is more room to choose how one eventually faces up to the endgame, I don't think further playthroughs would be much different. One playthrough of the main story (A New Home) took me about 6 hours, so it is also a little on the short side. New scenarios are being added though so hopefully there will a more varied game on the way. Personally I would like to see a free play mode with no time limit.
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