It's a good game on its own merit, but I'd hardly call it much of a sequel to Frostpunk 2 even though it tries to be in story. The gameplay is much more macro than micro. While it carries the same tension as the first with always leaving you wondering if everything is going to collapse at any minute and everything you've done is all wrong, it focuses more on a political landscape trying to balance out factions. Protests were the bane of my existence. Overall, it was a good as a stand-alone game. It was beautiful, tense, and well crafted. As a sequel to Frostpunk, I think it left something to be desired as it lost a little bit of the personal touch that the first had and introduced mechanics that I doubt anyone really wanted.
