Got my free copy from the EGS giveaway, and holy crap this game is fun. Fun as in it will entertain you and drive you nuts, untill you finally figure out the most efficient way to complete the quests before you try upping the difficulty on endless mode. This game is a city/survival manager, but its also quite a puzzle game too! The main quests are guided missions that will challenge you to reach certain goals in a limited amount of time while dealing with different problems. They are all certainly winnable on normal difficulty once you learn the tricks to master micromanagement (I HATE leaving a heater on when the workers have already left for the day!). Endless mode comes in 3 flavors, survive the storms with your city, build a generator, or mild survival mode. There are 4 levels of difficulty that can be mixed as you please, and a toggle for random problems adds more head scratching if you want more challenge. Some of the social tech tree choices are near useless (child shelters, duels, ration healing come to mind) and the faith tree is lolOP vs order, but it is interesting to try each to see how your run differs. The rifts is the worst DLC of the bunch, its just one map in endless mode that makes you build expensive bridges to access needed early wood/steel/coal/steam core/deposits, but having to plan around what order to build them makes it somewhat worthwhile. Last Autumn was a cool challenge, you build the city generator instead of managing it and have new social tech trees to ponder over. The outpost DLC was pretty good, it's a semi-role playing quest where your town is a iron outpost instead of a generator city, so no automatons and limited self reliance will have your noggin joggin' plenty. Frostpunk is pretty, never crashes, has a great soundtrack, and will frustrate you to no end while you learn all the tricks. 5/5.
