Just clever tactical acumen, lots of practice, and a heart of stone.įrostpunk is surprisingly expansive. You can’t actually stop the rot, only manage it. You already know that you won’t be able to just coast your way through any of this game’s scenarios like more traditional strategy games. This is integral to what makes the game such an impressive one, strategically. There’s no enlightened calculus around the fact that every choice bears the opportunity cost of someone’s suffering. Almost every decision you make is an ethical gut check. You’re always walking a dangerous moral line in Frostpunk.
It’s the easier things like cooking that you have them do first, but do you become desperate enough to have them shuffle in among the rank and file in the sawmill? When people begin to die, loved ones would like to bury them properly, but are you willing to risk the loss in production for the sake of sending the dead away respectfully? When workers start falling gravely ill or needing radical treatment like amputations, having children fill the roles becomes a thing you start justifying. Things get darker as the struggles mount. When things get tight and you’re forced to crack the whip, they grow more melancholy, even though the extra coal will guarantee our survival for a few more days. But it hangs over your citizens like a shadowy threat.
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Enacting a law that allows me to extend a work shift for a full 24 hours seems like a “worst case scenario” play. There’s never a decision that feels entirely like the right one. Making hard decisions becomes commonplace almost from the start. Maybe it’s because everything feels like a chore in Frostpunk that frantically checking coal usage levels and work shifts feels just like par for the gloomy course.įrostpunk is a morality crucible. It’s a real-time strategy game that requires micromanaging, but it never feels like a chore. Keeping your hands hovering over all of the levers is the only way to ensure that you’ll be ready for whatever comes next. You’ll always feel engaged with the moment to moment happenings of your town. The balance of learning what to build and when is a learning curve that can make or break early players. To keep them alive and healthy, you’ll need to keep food on their tables and roofs over their heads. As time passes, your citizens become increasingly needy and despondent. In the beginning, workers will need to be sent to wade through tall snow drifts to scrounge for scrap metal, wood, and coal.
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You and your pilgrims find a massive generator a fiery steampunk pillar that will serve as the main power and heating source for your village.
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