Saira Mueller
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All of that said, the grittier art style in Frostpunk 2 is beautiful, and building the game on Unreal Engine gives it a level of polish that leaves me wishing I could see the original in the same way. Frostpunk 2 was built on Unreal, in part, because 11 bit studios wanted to enable modding for the game. And honestly, that could be its saving grace. I want to see what players do when given free reign. I want to see Frostpunk but as colonies on other planets, or as a floating steampunk society, or with dinosaurs (as the mod announcement trailer shows). Basically, just fix the issues with Frostpunk 2 and put it in unique settings, with scenarios and moral decisions based on that. Until then, I’ll go back and sink another day or two into the original.