Frostpunk

You start with just the generator, and at first it's quite obvious what to do - send people for wood and coal. After the minimal base exists, more choices appear. What technology to invest in? Do I want to build hospitals that need crew, or send those people as hunters to get food? How much time should explorers spend outside of the city before finally bringing what they gathered back to the city, where it will be used? These are interesting questions, and the changing temperature creates even more problems, e.g. should I develop the technology to get more coal, or rather to get more heating? But more heating uses more coal, so... Use automatons to get coal, or better workers, who work faster, but only during working hous? Force them to work 24h? Interesting! There are however disadvantages to this game, let me mention some: - I hate socialism, and there's a lot of socialistic thinking in this game. Imagine this: the city is starving, just before midnight hunters finally arrive with food, but it needs cooking. But the kitchen won't open before 8:00 BECAUSE IT'S NOT THEIR WORKING HOURS! Can you imagine this situation in reality? And if I force them to get to work immediately, everyone gets very angry, instead of happy for getting the freaking food. There are multiple socialistic absurdities like this, as if it was a big factory and all the money was going into my pocket. No, guys, we are fighting to survive, stop complaining and get the heck to work, or just go find another city. - There are some unpolished edges in the mechanics, e.g. I promised high temperatures at homes for 2 days, but it dropped below that level FOR LITERALLY TEN GAME-MINUTES, but folks already got very angry at me and I failed the task. Many similar things. - Current technology not highlighted when selected, but not yet worked on, because it's night. I was confused at first. - On my laptop the framerate drops sometimes even on low graphics, worse than on other games, the game also crashed once.

A wonderful game in which you are in charge of a whole "city", everything depends on you and that's great. The game offers you a lot of fun (and a lot of challenge), all laws you will have to approve (spoiler: you can become dictator of the new world order). There are a lot of possibilities and options. Definitely worth those € 30 worth. P.D If you find it too difficult, lower the difficulty to easy

Unforgiving, atmospheric and addicting. Give it some time to settle in, makes a lot of fun. Some for sure will hate it, as it is really hard.

Main scenario is solid 5/5. Game mechanics, music, visuals, exploration, events, quests, choices, scenario unique mechanics and storyline mixed together are creating immersive experience. Gameplay is rather simple but there is enough room for decisions (various ways of getting resources, different branches in Book of Laws). There are some wierd design choices, such as there is no way to change laws, which my lead to beig stuck with unpopular laws that were passed to fight a crisis or with more popular that are a handicap during hard times. Other scenarios received less polish than main one and their quality is varied. For example many laws from purpose category were tied to main scenario's mechanics and as a consequence purpose laws are either feel a bit off or are completely absent from other scenarios. The Refugees scenario feels especially lacking because it dealt with a interesting theme of mitigating a conflict between lower and upper class by series of quite abstract quests (feed people, heal them, fight discontent etc.) and few events. Frospunk is advertised as "society survival" game and it failed it's premise in this scenario. There are currently 4 scenarios total and only main feels 100% polished, other there aren't bade, some are better, some are worse, but the initial magic is gone. Endless mode helps a bit with lack of content. Overall this is a solid game, which I definitely recommend however it have problems with replayability and varied quality of content but all complains aside, it is worth buying just for the amazing atmosphere and epic conclusuion of main story.

Quite the fun challenge. I dreamt of managing resources that night after beating the campaign, "A New Home". It's quite the thinking game, and tuning your play to finding that balance managing your resources to win. I loved how the music ramped up the further you progress. Overall the creativity and art style of the game was pretty neat., and the UI art and UX is amazing. My recommendation is to play on the slowest setting and pause often and make changes that aren't working often. Otherwise as a new player you will make mistakes if you go too fast. Some things in this game aren't very obvious and I still don't know the answer. Example questions would be: "do my workers get cold when building?", "what's the prioritization if all my workers are working and I say to build a building?" "what are the benefits of roads, do my workers move faster?" "how do I remove hungry/sick workers from a building and replace them with idle workers?" It would be nice if their tutorial guide was more in-depth or linked to a reference guide in-game. I hope Frost Punk 2 has something like this with a search function.