Frostpunk 1886

Remake Frostpunk on Unreal Engine 5. In addition to visual improvements, the game has added expanded gameplay — a third development path has emerged, as well as new events, laws, technologies, and buildings.

The game tells the story of people surviving in a snowy world, using steam technologies. You will need to build and maintain a city under difficult conditions. You will develop the last bastion of humanity, which is located in the ice. You must not only gather resources and create new buildings but also maintain a positive attitude in a society that may suffer from hunger, cold, and pressure from authorities.

Frostpunk is a real-time city-building strategy with management elements set in a steampunk environment. It was developed by 11bit studio in 2018 for PC, Xbox One, and PS4. It focuses on the survival of a small settlement of people in arctic cold. The player must not only provide shelter and food for the inhabitants but also heat their homes while making many difficult decisions.

Circumstances constantly disrupt plans, forcing adaptation, survival, and growth despite the ever-worsening living conditions. Resources have to be redistributed, children taken to work, and the player must respond to the demands of people dissatisfied with their actions. The immersion effect is achieved through excellent graphics with beautiful effects and high-quality textures.

Frostpunk does not have an endless game mode; instead, it offers carefully crafted but still finite scenarios, each telling a story from its own perspective. At launch, there were three, later the developers added a few more.

According to the overall storyline, at the end of the 19th century, a glacial period began in the world. Continental Europe and England were buried in snow, even major cities froze. To survive, people used steampunk technologies to venture into the timber and coal-rich Arctic, using monstrous boilers to heat new settlements.

From there, the specifics begin — one scenario simply offers survival, another sets an important goal — to save all plants from extinction, and so on. Each can be completed in different ways, making opposite decisions along the way, which enhances replayability.

In the Arctic, the player has access to a small area for construction, surrounded by a wall of ice, with a steam generator in the center, the heat from which spreads to nearby homes. Nearby are a few resources available for free; more can be obtained by opening mines and factories.

At the same time, the player is not isolated in their "pit"; they send expeditions in different directions of the game world, find additional quests that shed light on what happened to the planet in the world of Frostpunk and tell how people tried to survive, as well as encounter dangers and accept refugees.

The main priority is the survival of people, so you need to provide them with shelter, food, warmth, work, and entertainment by choosing from three dozen building options, some of which are built from rare, non-renewable resources. You will have to choose whether to build several low-efficiency buildings or one high-efficiency building, but at the cost of rare resources.

Harsh conditions will require the adoption of new laws, the enforcement of which will not please everyone. It is very important to maintain loyalty and hope among the people; otherwise, they will literally throw a bad mayor into the cold or run away, deceived by their fantasies.

In Frostpunk, you must constantly manage resources — reallocating human resources, building and upgrading houses, increasing storage capacity, and regulating the heat supply in the city.

A significant part of the gameplay is dedicated to research: it improves people's lives, increases productivity in enterprises, and boosts the volume and speed of resource extraction. The game borrows its visual style, building models, and programmable automatons from steampunk.