Frostpunk

Fantastic. Gives those darkest dungeon vibes, that grueling struggle that makes every accomplishment feel so rewarding, and every misstep so costly. Firstly gotta hand it to devs for making a solid port to ps4, making the interface fluid and easy to use. Also, all the information to analyze your colony is easy to access and understand. Complex Strategy games like this often don't port well but this was done right ! The progression is bang on, I've died numerous times and still trying to rack my brain to figure out how to pass certain hurdles. But despite the constant struggle and tragedies along the way, building and managing this wasteland colony is fun. You can get really OCD about building placement like in sim city. Crafting the colony after your own vision, making it your own, making it all the more painful when everything falls apart , be it from ignorance or negligence. This is one of those rare gems . A game you can get lost in for hours and hours.... and hours.

Un juego difícil pero con una ambientación que me encantó. Quizá un poco repetitivo, y la historia no termina de profundizar todo lo que debería, pero por lo demás es un notable muy sólido.

Despite all I have heard about Frustpunk, I was surprised that it’s just a city builder with style. The game is well made and great for the genre, but it doesn’t bend the genre in was that I found interesting. Then again, this is not my first city builder and I’m not a big fan of this genre. You can actually go way way back to 1982’s “Utopia” to find the essence of a city building game. You need to harvest resources to build buildings that let you harvest resources and build more buildings. The strategy is in optimizing the placement of buildings and the number and type of buildings. That’s the game. While I was enraptured with “Utopia” in the early 80s, I was less and less interested in the city builders that followed. Dress them up how you like, it’s the same game. “Frostpunk” pushes this genre forward by adding a survival element. (However, Utopia also had this with frequent hurricane). The city you build is the last city on earth, heated by one generator, and the only refuge on an earth that is frozen to -40 degrees. This dire situation means making moral choices such as legalizing child labor and 24 work shifts. Survivors are constantly dying. The narrative is laid out in narration, bits of story, and snippets of survivors’ conversations. Is this enough to make an old genre new again? I think that depends on who you ask. For me, not really. Once I figured out the best placement of buildings, saw the tech tree, and figured out how to mine coal, I knew how I’d min max this game to victory. But if I were a little kid again, as I was when “Utopia” was released, I would have spent half a summer figuring out the best way to play “Frostpunk”. Technically, “Frostpunk” offers up a lot nice additions to city builders. You can see your little people down there on earth trudging through the snow to work their jobs and collect resources. A larger map shows you where scouts might go. Pop ups for random events appear, creating a story for this last city. This is the kind of hand crafted quality that is missing from the mass market games created by the big publishers. All in all, “Frostpunk” is a good game, likely a great game, that I’m not interested in playing. (Full disclosure: I downloaded Frostpunk from my PS+ Extra collection.)

It's a fake game an impostor. There is nothing sadder in a management game than a scripted event and this game is nothing if not a series of scripts, there is no hearth beating in it. A book has a similar amount of interactivity. At the end **** you are told to get this and this amount of food to survive and I got myself a month's worth of it and a second after that a pop up appears that people are fighting over supplies. The resources are practically infinity there is no danger to their scarcity no need to optimize your production and consumption right up the alley of its historical setting, but I did wonder what animals could be there left to hunt? I was extremely well off from the mid game onwards I was telling myself that man this city is a utopia even in terms of contemporary cities if I could make multiple shifts people would have to work 4 hours a day. Of course a scripted event happened and somehow sizeable portion of my utopia thought that going into the frozen hell would be better than living comfortably here. Again the worst ludonarrative dissonance I have seen in a game. 4 people died out of 700 at the end of my playthrough , 2 because of scripted event at the start ****. It's a beautiful game, although not well optimized. The lore of the world and it's inhabitants is enthralling. But it's more of a movie worth watching rather than a game worth playing

Its fun for a while and then it's the same nonsense over and over again. It has good graphics tho.