Frostpunk

Frostpunk — a management strategy game from the creators of This War of Mine. The game tells the story of people surviving in a snowy world, using steam technology. You will have to build and maintain a city under difficult conditions. You will develop the last bastion of humanity, which is located in the ice. You need not only to extract resources and create new buildings but also to maintain a positive attitude in a society that may suffer from hunger, cold, and pressure from the authorities.

Frostpunk is a real-time city-building strategy game with management elements, set in a steampunk setting. Developed by 11bit Studios in 2018 for PC, Xbox One, and PS4. It is dedicated to the survival of a small settlement of people in arctic cold conditions. The player must not only provide their wards with shelter and food but also heat their homes while making many difficult decisions along the way.

Circumstances constantly disrupt plans, forcing adaptation, survival, and growth despite the ever-worsening living conditions. Resources must be redistributed, children taken to work, and the demands of people dissatisfied with the player's actions must be met. 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 finite scenarios, each telling a story from its perspective. At the time of release, there were three, and later developers added several more.

According to the general plot, at the end of the 19th century, an ice age began in the world. Continental Europe and England were covered with snow, freezing even large cities. To survive, people, using steampunk technology, went to the Arctic rich in wood and coal to heat new settlements with monstrous boilers.

Then 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 achieves replayability.

In the Arctic, the player has a small area available for construction, surrounded by a wall of ice, with a steam generator in the center, spreading heat to nearby houses. Nearby are a few resources in free access, 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, choosing from three dozen building options, some of which are built from rare, non-renewable resources. You will have to choose — to build several low-efficiency buildings or one high-efficiency one, but losing a rare resource.

Harsh conditions will require the adoption of new laws, the implementation of which will not please everyone. Очень важно поддерживать лояльность и надежду среди людей, иначе они выкинут плохого мэра в буквальном смысле на мороз или сами разбегутся, обманутые своими фантазиями.

Во Frostpunk надо постоянно заниматься менеджментом — перебрасывать людские ресурсы, строить и улучшать дома, наращивать складские объемы и регулировать подачу тепла в город.

Важная часть геймплея отведена исследованиям: они улучшают жизнь людей, повышают продуктивность предприятий, увеличивают объем и скорость добываемых ресурсов. От стимпанка игра заимствует визуальный стиль, модели зданий и программируемых роботов-автоматонов.