Frostpunk: The Last Autumn

There is a single term that can sum this entire, overly-priced DLC up: artificial difficulty. As I mentioned in my main-game Frostpunk review, this scenario sucks the fun out of the formula, and replaces it with unnecessary tediousness. Gone is the balance: now, you have to rush at breakneck speed in order to build entirely new building chains, just so you can manufacture ridiculous new components needed to get your generator up and running: and your generator will always be ruined, and require a stupid amount of time to repair with said new components, which brings us to the next, unnecessary element of the aforementioned artificial difficulty: toxic gas. That's right: a previously non-existent toxic gas now now threatens your workers lives and health 'while' they are busy restoring the generator at an excruciatingly-slow pace, all while the temperature drops, and drops, taking away too many workers needed to gather the basic resources needed to survive. This is not fun: this is painful, and in a 'very' forced, artificial way. To top it off, your workers now complain about the most petty and stupid of things, whereas previously, their grievances were founded in legitimate, life-threatening concerns. And worse: they'll go on strike for said petty reasons now: In the middle of a deadly global winter. With no apparent survival-instinct. Like over-grown, petulant children: they would rather suffer and die, than do what I tell them (While this could easily say quite a bit about the writing team for this DLC, I digress.). Why and/or how anyone could find enjoyment in this is beyond me, but this is most definitely 'not' the Frostpunk I've enjoyed since the game's release. It feels like they were testing out a future game's mechanics within an existing game... and charging people to play the beta. No thank you, 11 bit.

I seriously don't know what happened when they made this. Was everyone on vacation and let their friend with 0 game design experience make this DLC? Idiotic predetermined events that waste your time, workers strike even though it says no chance to strike / striking the literal nanosecond it goes to minimal chance because you we're adjusting something, certain events wait to happen until again the nanosecond you have no way to deal with them making it impossible to be prepared, certain events have good options that are nearly impossible to be available. For example, the first explosion in the construction site only happens when workplace safety drops from the highest level, but has an option that's only available when safety is at the highest. Either that or its almost completely random and you better hope it happens when the toxic gas is low otherwise there's almost no way you're at max safety. Its just braindead either way. Why even bother with the workplace safety scale when only the highest level matters or it has nothing to do with what happens at all? This DLC crosses the line from tough but fair resource management to plain infuriating nonsense that you'd need the ability to see into the future to successfully navigate. Those rating this highly are either paid reviews or so lucky and moronic that they lack the abilty to think critically about what's happening. DO NOT BUY.

The Book of Laws is broken and as a result you cannot advance. There once was a time when games would release complete, I guess those days are gone.

This DLC is one of the two main benefits from the season pass. It is a new full scenario with new set of rules, and a quite different environment to the other scenarios. However, I feel it as the less polished of all the scenarios. On this scenario, the aim is to develop a generator. But you can fail easily as the workers could die or do strikes (with winter coming). It was extremely hard to grasp the new concepts, and then you have events that you did not know was possible to mitigate them with new resources. The new set of rules also feel that you can only lead to a tyrant control. P.s. Is also a good idea to wait for a discount if you want only this one.

One scenario, completed in two hours, for 17EUR? Perfect scam!