Frostpunk: On The Edge

Without too many spoilers - the success in the scenario depends in a good part on where you send your scouts - and since (when playing first time) you can't know where to look and for what, it effectively depends on if you are lucky when picking the direction. Other than that? Fairly fun, but the criitique in the other reviews feels quite accurate for me as well, so I won't just repeat that.

The best thing about Frostpunk: trying a new senario and puzzling through how to solve it. It's different enough, you might have to give it a couple of tries before figuring it out. The main mechanic this dlc adds is the "Settlements". I thought it was a great new concept, that at times fell short on the execution. The trading is simple. You send them things you have, they'll send you things you need. You can send special shipments to increase production. If you do things they like, they'll owe you favors, that you can exchange for resources. This is great in the senario, where for the most part you can only produce steel, steam cores, and a limited amount of wood. One of the settlements produces food, which is essential. One produced wood, which you need later on. The last produces coal. which you won't need at all. They have children, so you'll want to help them out. But coal is literally something you'll never need, especially since in the senario you'll have way too many people, and nothing to do with them but put them on coal thumpers. In endless mode, you can enable settlements with the disasters... but they're pretty much useless. If a bad event hits, you need a strong stockpile to weather it. Small shipments from settlements won't make a difference. They're more "something else to do". One last thing: The 7 techs this dlc mentions... it all has to do with the senario, and how fast you can pull out steel and cores from the army warehouse. Also, I think they're calling the "Army Warehouse" a new building. It felt like they were fluffing up some pretty basic stuff.

From the three DLCs available on the season pass this is my favorite. It feels as a continuation of the main game. Yet, with a disturbing turn of events. The new concepts, such as the trade routes and diplomacy bring a lot of new juice and challenges. However, they could have benefited of more polishing. For the trade, you cannot have food and eventually the wood will be depleted. Therefore, discovering the new settlements will become paramount. Which, on a first game may be hard.

.. nagging, annoying, everything is whining at you. If you like frustration and anxiety this game is for you. Too bad as the graphics,the music, the atmosphere and even the gameplay is enjoyable. But I feel like the balance is off, it feels as though the devs really want you to feel the dread and non stop someone is complaining, some bad thing is happening.