Frostpunk 2 Reviews
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Frostpunk II has lovely and intimate details, but the big picture is chilly and rigid. The promise of pioneering a new culture becomes yet another tale of survival at all costs.
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Frostpunk 2 has become my favorite city-builder thanks to its fantastic gameplay and great setting, and it is technically playable on the Steam Deck.
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The risk of too much-simulated suffering is that the most challenging decisions can leave you feeling emotionally detached, as the end often justifies the means. This dynamic makes Frostpunk 2 a unique experience where you can never truly be the ‘good guy,’ only ‘less bad.’ It’s better to play this in short bursts, as it will keep you from becoming emotionally numb to all the suffering in Frostpunk 2.
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“Frostpunk 2 scales up the drama with a bigger, more strategic sequel that's easy to get lost in.”
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Frostpunk 2 showed an entirely new side, partially becoming a simulator of political struggle in a post-apocalyptic world. The scale of the game became much larger, and, while it lost that personal touch of the first game, it brought the global problems of society to the fore. The big moral choices in the game are weighty, and the consequences can be terrifying
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With its unique blend of strategy, survival, and city building, Frostpunk 2 stands as one of the best titles of 2024.
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Frostpunk 2 is much more ambitious than the original, which may dissuade some fans. Nevertheless, it's a brutal experience that reminds one of humanity's illogical yet endearing social turmoils.
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A fantastic sequel that refuses to be just the previous game but with more options, although in terms of scale and ambition it is most certainly bigger and better.
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Frostpunk 2 is a worthy sequel that ramps up the grit and immersion, but sheds some of the original's magic in the pursuit of innovation.
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Complete with an unending deadly winter beating down the city walls and a civilization that seems hellbent on destroying their home from the inside, Frostpunk 2 is an increasingly challenging and moody city-builder that pulls none of its punches.
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A sequel that takes the thrilling cold-survival city-building heart of Frostpunk and evolves it in every way, while losing none of what made the series so special to begin with.
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Frostpunk 2 is a survival strategy city-builder game developed and published by 11 bit Studios. The game comes with two modes: a story mode, featuring a campaign split into six different chapters, and the ‘utopia’ mode, which features a sandbox with endless play. It’s a sequel to Frostpunk, which originally came out in 2018, and is set in the same harsh frozen wastelands where humans are struggling to survive.
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Frostpunk 2 asks "What are we willing to do to thrive?" in a sequel with deeper strategy, higher stakes, and compelling gameplay. Our review:
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Frostpunk 2 takes the already excellent original and improves on it in some suitably satisfying ways. It's an excellent city-builder, especially if you're prepared to take lessons from failure.
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But overall, this isn’t a bucket of cold water over the whole experience. Frostpunk 2 is a very unique take on the builder simulator genre, leading you to make the hardest of decisions, only to mock you for your accomplishments and failures alike. But there’s always something to uncover at the end of the frozen cave. Is it a hope of survival, or is it an inevitable, cold departure? Only you can decide it.
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As was the case with its predecessor, Frostpunk 2’s city building and society management layers aren’t particularly deep on their own but fuse into a cohesive whole that grips you soon after you arrive in its frozen wasteland.
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Frostpunk 2 is a terrific society-survival experience full of in-depth gameplay mechanics and challenging choices to make. Even if there were a few technical issues, they never stopped me from trying to build my ideal utopia.
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Frostpunk 2 once again brings players to a blizzard ravaged post-apocalyptic Earth, but this time, it picks up 30 years after the events of Frostpunk. In that time, the world has fallen into further disarray, grappling with limited resources, overpopulation, and an environment bent on taking them out. As players take on the role of Steward, it is up to them to guide the city of New London through this mess in hopes that they can have a better future. And what ensues is a city-building experience that many may not soon forget.
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Every single decision you make in Frostpunk 2 is like taking a step out onto a frozen lake. You might shift your weight onto a foot, only to see a tiny crack race out ahead of you. Is this the decision that will lead to your downfall? Even something as benign as placing down buildings comes with the weight of resource management, societal impact, and just a little bit more strain on the delicate system you’ve tried to establish. It’s a brilliant sequel that will leave you frozen with indecision as the icy disposition of the factions rivals the chill...
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Frostpunk 2 lives up to - and in most ways - surpasses the original. A chilling, intense game about human survival and conflict - that will leave you questioning your own sense of morality for many hours.
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What is most impressive about Frostpunk 2 is how well it blends its emotional narratives with its gameplay mechanics. It challenges the player on an emotional and moral level while also challenging them to grapple with some of the most intricately linked and well-refined gameplay the strategy genre has seen in years.
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Frostpunk 2 makes clever reconsiderations of, and expansions on, the first game’s design, offering a better rounded, even harsher follow-up to the original’s concept.
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Anybody who knows me knows I like my strategy and simulation games. Then again, if anybody has any memory of my nine years of writing reviews here at Wccftech (and before then), they'll also know my fondness of the genres - so much so that of the 303 reviews for this site, 103 of them sit firmly in strategy or Simulation. Others have a bit of a toe-in, too. I'm saying this here mainly to fill space because I've already previewed Frostpunk 2 twice, covering both the Utopia Builder beta and then getting hands-on with the story mode while in...
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Returning players may love the extra challenge in Frostpunk 2 but then again I played the original title on Survivor mode, the hardest difficulty, and still managed to complete it. For some reason, the difficult spike in the sequel is tough to handle and that is the only downside I have found in the game so far.
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Frostpunk 2 expands on what made the original so fresh. While a harsh difficulty might turn some players off, forging through is the name of the game in Frostpunk 2.
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Frostpunk is a stone cold classic, so to speak, among the city-builder community. A near-perfect mix of survival and city building, with management going beyond large overhead components of a town like hunger and water. While I loved this first RTS outing from 11Bit Studios, there was some secret sauce somewhere that was missing. Whatever it was, a hearty helping has been poured into Frostpunk 2, which is easily one of the best city-builder games ever made.
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Frostpunk 2 successfully expands on everything that the original brutal city builder had, and its larger scale, great story campaign, and new faction system are as "fun" as a calamity reduction simulator can get.
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An atmospheric, bold attempt to reinvent its own society-moulding subgenre whose story and building features too often frustrate with too few options or distract with too many.
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Frostpunk 2's challenging gameplay makes for a compelling experience despite a dour and cynical view of human nature.
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Endure a blizzard of tough choices and lasting consequences in the survival city builder sequel.
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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...
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Frostpunk 2 takes everything that made the first game challenging and scales it up. Bigger cities, more mechanics, and larger expansions will push a player's ability to balance so many resources and the consequences of their own actions. Overcoming these will reward you with an immense sense of pride.
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Frostpunk 2 is pretty much everything you could want from a sequel. The game expands upon the foundation laid down by the original while introducing fresh systems and mechanics. There’s nothing particularly innovative to look forward to here, but that’s to be expected and isn't necessarily a bad thing. When you have a game as polished as Frostpunk, the last thing you want is to try to reinvent the wheel and potentially ruin it in the process. Sometimes all players want from a sequel is the same type of gameplay they already love coupled with updated visuals and some new...
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Frostpunk 2 offers an engaging and rewarding overall package for city-building fans able to accept harsh punishment and willing to give up and start again from scratch.
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Frostpunk 2 is a brutal but incredibly moreish post-apocalyptic city builder that’s easy to sink hours into despite the thankless trappings. A humbling array of deep systems engaged my inner tactician without ever making me feel overwhelmed. Plus, with multiple game modes and difficulty settings, even the pain-hungry Frostpunk veterans will likely be satisfied. More than anything, though, Frostpunk 2 stands out with its morbid personality, creating an atmosphere that bleeds into its brilliant writing, which dips between depressing and hilarious.
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Frostpunk 2 is a great entry into the city-survival genre and one that will hook even newcomers to the genre. With a fantastic campaign full of difficult choices, a sandbox mode available from the start, and so many options on how you shape New London, the larger scale of Frostpunk 2 is one that succeeds in every way.
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Forstpunk 2 should appeal not only to building and planning enthusiasts but also to people who appreciate a serious narrative and a more profound treatment of the factions and characters present in the game.
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It will be a cold day in hell when a good RTS comes out for consoles. Well, 11 Bit Studios may have given us a reason to put on our North Face jackets and grab that Pumpkin Spice Latte. Frostpunk for PS4 isn’t just an acceptable port of the 2018 PC RTS, it is surprisingly great overall.
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