Frostpunk

The game is just that... decent. There is nothing special about it. The graphics are nice along with the gameplay concepts. Though, the gameplay itself needs a lot of work. The game will let you go upto a maximum about of days, about 50. Though, if you trigger certain events earlier than intended, it will end sooner. I had one that ended at 37 days. Within these days, you have to start a colony from nothing to be able to withstand the "ultimate" freeze. This includes all needed buildings, stockpiles, colonists/automatons, laws, and research. If you don't have what the game determines you need by the start of it, you fail. There is no way around the time limit. There are also only three scenarios to choose from. Once you pass day 20 on the previous one, the next one becomes available. You don't even has to complete/pass the previous one, just survive long enough. There is no other way to play the game. There is no sandbox, full campaign, or anything else. When I first saw this and found out there is a time limit, I thought I bought a $30 demo. It does have most of the parts a survival colony needs to survive winter. It has coal, wood, steel, and food for resources. It has laws that you can enact. Some of these are permanent, and some unlock new skills or buildings. Though once enacted, they cannot be repealed. It also has research to improve what you already have, and unlock new buildings and skills. All-in-all, this is a demo. It seems like they rushed release of it because they were running out of money. There are plenty of parts that still need work and some parts that are "coming soon." They would have been better off offering it at a lower price and listing it as "still in development." Right now, we pay $10/scenario. I don't know about everyone else, but that is a lot of money for a solitary mission that only lasts for a couple hours at most.

Great game. Excellent for intensive gameplay over a week or two. However, it is not repeatable, there's nothing unique when you play it again. The entire thing with all DLCs can be finished in 24 hours or less.

The idea sounds promising - a city builder and survival game in a steampunk setting. However, the game very quickly becomes a drag and just isn't fun to play. Here are some of the issues I have with this game: - Temperature jumps are completely random and make no sense. The developers didn't even pretend to create something like a real weather model. Temperatures are always in tens of degrees celsius, so it's either exactly -40, -50, -60 or -70 degrees. Jumps by 20 deg often occur within seconds, and it is often warmer at night and gets colder while the sun comes up. - The behavior of your people makes no sense. When the temperature drops drastically, you have no choice but to to crank up the generator or people will freeze to death and important buildings will shut down. Naturally, your city consumes more coal now, which will not be sustainable for long, so there is only one right reaction imaginable in this scenario: adding emergency shifts in the coal mines. but guess what - your people don't like it, and threaten to depose you over it... would they rather freeze to death? - Many buildings looks quite similar. They also have to be built very closely together. This has the effect that once your city gets a little bigger, you will be spending much of your time trying to find something on the colorless and bland map. - Building roads is often fun in other city builders.... but not here. You are very restricted in how to lay out your city, and the roads are just an unnecessary, annoying extra that doesn't add any value. It almost feels like the devs added building roads just because all city builders have it. - The music is unbearable. After an hour I had to turn it off. - It#s poorly optimized... despite having a very powerful machine, the game was always laggy for me and reducing the gaphic settings did nothing. - It's annoying that the Frostpunk 2 ad comes up every time you start the game.

Masterpiece. Atmospheric god freaking awesome. Very inspiring, damn good genre (love to read some novels within this freezing theme btw). Must have/must play. Amazing soudtrack. Thank you devs for this snow (and autumn) ride!⛄

Excellent survivalist game with a number of varied scenarios, all of which provide their own challenges. 5 star game play similar to the surviving mars series and strong storylines, with my only concern being relatively limited replayability since some tech paths are far more optimal than others, and the "endless" paths not being all that fun once the impending doom of the early game has been completed. Still, a great game that's well worth picking up