GET TO FREAKING WORK, TIMMY! That coal isn’t going to haul itself.
I’m sure those people probably view themselves as superior to the rest of us, but me? I’m pushing out the propaganda, telling everyone its fine and shoving the children into those mines. It’s possible to beat the game making only a few harsh choices or even none. That isn’t to say you can’t hold out as a moral bastion, mind you. I love this slow and subtle way that Frostpunk pushes you toward more and more horrible acts in the name of survival. You’re left watching the coal supplies vanished, the food being eaten, and suddenly all those incredibly dark, harsh laws you can pass begin to look like the only way to survive. And just when you think you have enough food and coal stockpiled, a storm comes in, the temperature drops like a stone dropped from a plane. Other city-builders are often relaxing and slow, but in Frostpunk it always feels like you’re about one minute away from failure. Healthcare? Basic hospitals.įrostpunk is bleak, man, and the pressure is always there. The surrounding lands? Cold, desolate areas where maybe you can scavenge a few things.
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The mines? They are mostly for the vital coal that is needed to keep the generator and heaters working, the only things holding back the constantly dropping temperature which threatens to turn your people into popsicles. The laws? These include deciding to pad out soup with sawdust, whether children need to work, whether its worth trying to make prosthetics for those injured in work. The buildings you plonk down? Ramshackle huts. Here’s the deal you’re the sucker in charge of leading a band of people seeking to begin a nice life in a freezing hellscape, and every moment will be a fight. It all sounds so nice and chilled and OH MY GOD, IT ISN’T! You’ll setup mines to bring up resources, explore the surrounding lands, provide healthcare and heating. Vote for me, my friends, because you can’t have a Necromancer problem if there’s no dead bodies to bring back.įrostpunk is a city-builder, a game where you plonk down buildings and pass laws and balance resources. It begs the question: if I was put in that position, what choices would I make? Well, according to Frostpunk I’m the kind of person who will put kids into the mines and use human corpses as a source of nutrition. The pressure that must come from leading people and being put into situations with no truly correct answers must be immense. Over the course of this mildly inconvenient pandemic I have often sat and passed judgment on the decisions made by governments, safe and secure in the very certain knowledge that I’ll never actually have to make choices that can affect hundreds, thousands and millions of people.
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