Frostpunk 2

A great game with many things to do. A little unclear on some tutorials or mechanics but overall a relly solid game for those that like a more slowpaced game.

Every time I start playing, I can not load any of my saves. Every one is in the C:\Users\\AppData\Local\11bitstudios\Frostpunk2\GOG\Saved\SaveGames folder, but none of them appear when I try to load a game. It makes me start over every single session.

Absolutely loved it. Different from the first one, definitely. The first one played more like a strategy game, with control over the individual units. This one plays more like a board game on steroids, focusing on large scale and long term development. Still very enjoyable. Played on the lowest difficulty and I must say it is a challenging game - just when you thought you had it all under control, you finish a resource, population grows, the temperature decreases, or a faction becomes restless. Just enough to keep you on the edge of your seat. Performance wise, it's pretty heavy and having essentially no levels - just a huge single playthrough - didn't help. But nothing game breaking, just longer save times the further along in the game I was.

Save often and use separate saves. Not for crashes but because the UI is unforgiving. You are not allowed to cancel actions so you are stuck with any misclicks or mismeasurements until the action is complete for you to undo for a partial refund or just accept and move on. Speaking of that, you have to build either 3, 6 or 8 districts at a time depending on whether you are expanding, building, or opening up tiles. If you didn't count the right number of tiles you can't undo it without save scumming. This wouldn't be so bad if you could see ahead of what you are building, but you just have to guess how many irregularly shaped tiles are ahead of you. The graphics are gorgeous even when you turn them down to medium which I decided to do with my rtx2060 to make the framerate buttery smooth. High played fine, but it was just a little laggy and that accentuated the sluggishness of the controls. The color scheme makes it feel like the game was made just for me with the white, black, orange, and teal palette. The sounds is excellent, but it's a little difficult to know when you need to take certain actions because the crunch you heard in the first game whenever a new law or technology was complete is gone. This may be a design decision because it no longer feels like you need to stack those things back to back like before since a new law or tech doesn't just benefit you in a vacuum. You often have to repeal an old law to enact a new one or tear down an old building to install a new one. It makes progression feel a lot less linear than the original. That being said, it's an excellent game. It feels like a natural evolution of the Frostpunk series. You no longer see the individuals you are affecting with your actions, but you have to respond to and navigate the larger groups in society, like switching from local county politics to the national stage. It's a similar kind of game that doesn't make the first one obsolete, how long has it been since a sequel like that came out?

The game has extensive mechanics that require thinking. During the game, we encounter complex problems that require making decisions. Thanks to this game, we can learn to perceive the problem from different perspectives, and it can make us realize that choices are usually not divided into bad and good. Sometimes we have to sacrifice something, and it can hurt us a lot. As for me, the game is worth attention, for people who like deeper topics.