Graphics: For an indie game, the graphics are quite impressive on a Playstation 4. You will have to make a viable economy to build and keep the city alive, but also make political decisions that can lead to creating a fanatic church, a totalitarian regime or even a city build on child labor.
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The player needs to keep supplying the city with coal, or the generator turns off. Every building is built on ground that surrounds the generator, thus relying on the heat to keep its occupants alive. A giant generator stands in the middle of a ice crater, heating the surroundings where a city will be build.
Gameplay: The game plays as a RTS management simulator with a steampunk style. As the story walks and steps on ethical lines with these choices, the game becomes increasingly immersive and exciting the further you get. Doing nothing is not an option in the long run, but choosing between two evils is not easy either. What's impressive is that the choices that are presented feel like realistic options that can happen when humanity is faced with its worst enemy: itself.
Story: Frostpunk has 4 story scenario's, with the main story revolving around building and maintaining a city that faces loss of hope, committing to a strategy to keep people from leaving, and preparing for the coldest storm on Earth. A global ice age erupts, forcing humans to fight for survival by keeping the warmth of a generator going. Steam and coal are the pillar stones of civilization. The world is enveloped in industrialisation, with technological advances that we haven't even managed to attain in the 21st century. The world is enveloped in industrialisation, with technological advances that we haven't even Imagine our world back in the 19th century. Imagine our world back in the 19th century.