The resources help bolster your own chances of survival. You send out scouts to explore your surroundings, scavenging the remnants of other expeditions as well as failed settlements. Just one more thing you need to keep track of. And while resources for construction and research aren’t finite, there is limited space and a cap on the speed at which you can harvest steel and wood. Through research you increase your intake of resources, raise the efficiency and range of the generator, and provide housing and care. It is as if the game has a sixth sense for when you are starting to feel overly confident – just when you think you are getting a handle on things something will happen that will make you fear that you are falling behind. It’s an incredible premise for a city builder – it is easy to forget that Frostpunk is one – and the sense of dread you get right at the start is guaranteed to last throughout your first few playthroughs.
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The generator only heats a small area, there is no shelter, barely any food and people are getting sick from the cold. Even with the generator running, the situation is dire. The first order of business is to get it running again. Instead of a working coal generator, they find it shut off and unattended. Faltering halfway, the expedition sees only a handful of survivors making it to their destination but their plight does not end there. Your expedition is headed towards what is believed to be man’s last hope – a powerful coal generator built to help mankind survive the ever-falling temperatures. Suddenly the world of Frostpunk doesn’t sound like sci-fi anymore.įrostpunk’s main campaign puts you in the unenviable shoes of The Captain, leader of a squalid group of ice age survivors in search of shelter from the cold. What does any of this have to do with Frostpunk? There’s growing evidence that when the Earth warms up, certain processes start that cause an ice age, and that is exactly what Frostpunk is all about, surviving an ice age. 2017 did a tiny step back and now closes the top three of hottest years ever recorded. 2014 was the hottest year on Earth in recorded history, 2015 completely shattered that record, only to be outdone by 2016. That by itself isn’t all that surprising. I started playing on what would go down in history as the hottest April 19 ever recorded in my country, The Netherlands.
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I have to admit to suffering something of a disconnect reviewing Frostpunk.