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As Steward of a frozen metropolis, expand districts, secure resources, and navigate faction politics to hold society together.
Released 20 Sep 2024
Expand City Districts
Balance District Heat
Negotiate With Factions
Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.
Developed by 11 bit studios · Published by 11 bit studios
Set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard, Frostpunk 2 casts you as the Steward of a growing city in an endless winter. Your task is to guide its society through hardship and conflict as it moves beyond immediate survival.
Expand the city by clearing frozen ground and building districts, while managing supplies such as fuel, food, and materials. Explore the surrounding Frostland to establish outposts and settlements, and balance heat across districts as the city’s needs grow.
Governance is central to the challenge: factions with competing ideals press their demands in the Council Hall, where laws are debated and voted on. Research, political negotiations, and difficult choices shape the city’s direction. The campaign follows a multi-chapter story, while Utopia Builder offers an open-ended mode for developing a city through different goals and approaches.
Players who enjoy Frostpunk 2 often praise its shift to large-scale city management, faction politics, and long-term strategy, as well as its frozen-world visuals and sound. Some find the broader scale and replayable city-building compelling; others feel it loses the intimacy of the first game, and criticize the faction system, interface, or technical problems. Reactions to the change in direction are notably mixed.
Frostpunk 2 elevates the city-survival genre to a new level. Take the role of a Steward and lead your city through a cascade of calamities taking place in a postapocalyptic, snowy setting. Build large city districts with their string of endless needs and demands. Navigate through conflicting interests of factions that populate your metropolis. As the needs of the city grow and factional power at its core rises, only you can steer the society towards an uncertain future.
The world is overtaken by an ever present winter, which makes expansion of the city the only way for the survival of mankind. In order to grow, the metropolis needs resources like coal and oil, just like its citizens require food and warmth. In Frostpunk 2, it's your job to tackle this never ending circle of supply and demand.
The number of your citizens steadily grows, making the task of governing them and satisfying their demands all the more challenging. As the Steward you will have to maneuver carefully across the interests of many groups inhabiting the city.
People of your city want to have a voice in how you run things. Each faction has its own ideology and ideas for the future, yet they also have one thing in common - insatiable thirst for power. Choose your allies in the Council Hall wisely.
Make tough life-and-death decisions as you allocate heat across your city, supported by new research topics and heat-oriented laws. Choose districts that need the most warmth with the help of the Heat Management system with a detailed temperature overlay.
The story of Frostpunk 2 introduces a multi-chapter saga set in the frozen wastes. Spanning across the life of the Steward this campaign lets you feel the burden of leadership as you take the responsibility for thousands of lives. At the same time, the sandbox mode called Utopia Builder with infinite play time leaves you room for boundless social and infrastructural experiments.
Frostpunk 2 comes with a comprehensive and versatile modding tool. FrostKit will let you create your own maps, models, and scenarios inside the game. Now, only your imagination can limit the destination your city is heading to!
| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
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| Achievements | 79 |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 3 listed on Steam |
| DRM / EULA |
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| Metacritic | 85/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
