Frostpunk

I was really excited for this game when I saw gamplay of it on YT (by MATN). Sadly, this game is not what I expected. But first! Let us get to the good parts. 1. It's pretty. 2. It has a nice setting. 3. It has potential (but that does not excuse any of it's faults). So we got that out of our way. Here is the main crux of the problem. This game is terribly short, lacking of any replayabilty and has a very strickt META game due to the pace of the game. The entire takes palce within only the span of a couple of months. By itself it is not a bad thing, however, the ingame day is abysmally short in real time. Also, to add insult to injury, the NPC's will only be productive for max 12h of that ingame day. The laws you can pass are very few in amount and can't be changed. This reduces the strategic flexiblity and repleyabilty of the game. The two "causes" that you have to choose during the midgame are simply re-skins of eachother, further reducing replay value. And as I said, due to the pace forced upon you, you will have to play in a certain way to avoid losing. In addition the gathering of resources is terribly unbalanced. You will drwon in some resources, while severly lacking in others. This is made more acute by the brakeneck speed of this game and the porrly designed UI that will do its best to not inform you of important details on the map. This game really needs a survival mode that can be an alternative to the "story". 10 updates and 25DL---ech--"Expansions" later this might actually resemble a game.

Since I cannot update my score for This War of Mine(their previous game) I will be writing this here. This dev team will patch their games into an unplayable state and call it good and move on to their next project. If this follows the same pattern as This War of Mine, frostpunk will become an unplayable mess and then they will move on. I originally thought this game looked interesting but when I learned who made it I decided to not bother. Why would I buy another broken product? If they fixed TWoM AND sold this at a heavy discount I might consider looking at it but as it stands I cannot recommend any products coming from these guys.

Rofl, I had to use 3 pairs of brackets to describe how inaccurate this is. Now GoG is starting to tag any modern low effort piece of trash as a "contemporary classic". The decline is realer than real.

I thought DLC was supposed to be included, now I got to pay.

DON'T buy this on GOG is doesn't even install. GOG isn't a serious platform it seems just buy from steam.