Frostpunk 2 Steam Charts & Stats

The overall experience of the game is completely different from Frostpunk 1. And that is where opinions will change. Frostpunk 1 offered a personal and individualistic approach to the city. Every person's demise felt like a tragedy. Like a village of friends and family that you try to protect from the bitterness of frost. Frostpunk 2, takes on a new approach. Instead of trying to keep the city alive, you're tasked with keeping the city from tearing itself apart. Thousands upon thousands of people, all with their own dreams, hopes and opinions. The death, turns from tragedy into statistic. The mentality of each player is what will define their opinions and reviews over this game. I say, give this game a try with a new mindset. it is not Frostpunk 1 and it is not going to play as one. While the fundamentals are there, the focus is shifted from the glory of the generator, to the squabbling of your fellow inhabitants of the city. When venturing into the wild was once considered extremely dangerous, now it is incentive in other to expand. Frostpunk 1 taught players how to survive. Frostpunk 2 will teach them how to thrive.

I really enjoyed Frostpunk 1 and I still find myself going back to replay maps and challenge myself. Sadly I can't say the same for this game. They added some nice touches but it lost the epic battle for survival. The struggle against the cold and resources was replaced by a boring political fight. In FP1 every choice carried weight behind it and had me re-adjusting my playthroughs trying to find the perfect combination. FP1: A single engineer died! Where did I go wrong? FP2: 1000 people died, who cares. I detest the new research and law system. I'm fine with voting for laws and negotiation but having to vote on a idea I just researched was a pain. Swaying the vote in your favor is not even hard so it's just extra steps. I also thought it was an added annoyance to have to conduct research to unlock new laws that could be passed. The previous tree structure worked perfect. Now I have to spend time researching labor just to unlock the next voting option. To be honest, researching feels like the only activity in the game besides exploring the frost land. I waited for the DLC to drop so I could play a bit before I wrote this review. Sadly I have to say skip this game or wait for a good sale if you are a fan of the first game. The developer made a misstep in what people loved about the first game. Maybe I'll give it another go when they drop another free content upgrade but I might just delete the game to free up disk space.

huge downgrade from first game. devs legit went yeah, frostpunk good, time to make a sequel with the most cliche theme, unity, which admittedly isn't inherently bad per se, but instead of actually making tough decisions, you are just a robot spamming buildings, specifically patrol towers for the main story and congratulations you have just beaten the game cuz having high guard count is all it matters to combat protest especially going for the captain ending. lacking health care? place hospitals, high squalor? place ventilation tower. high crime? patrol towers. minimal braincells usage. absolutely 0 emotions put into this game. just because there are some text flying around telling you the citizen hates x isn't going to make me change anything because it actually doesn't change anything. idk it can't be only me, the game lacks so much depth that the first of the series have. just look at the ending. FP1: a whole timeline of you struggling, the citizens' thought of your reign, reminiscing each moment you went through; FP2? a whole ass essay telling you you finished the game. what..? not to mention just build just spam communication hub for infinite trust. where's the logic in that. it breaks so much immersion to the game, in fact i'll touch on this too now that i'm typing it. honestly FP1 already had some issues with material balance but FP2 is just abysmal. why would you ever go for steam instead of oil when a few (1-3 max btw) vent towers compensate for all squalor, i survived the catastrophic whiteout and completely avoided the -4000 materials deficit squalor problem by abusing a few ventilation towers in steward diff DUDE who actually programmed this crap there's NO WAY this is not something you don't realize, either that or it's the most brain dead gameplay mechanic of all time. not to mention other issues other than food and cold can just be solved by building spam. after the early game difficulty peak the rest of the game is just genuinely free. where's the acutal gameplay value, i personally don't have fun playing this game. devs mentioning "making the game harder" in their 11bit youtube as if you guys shouldn't be focusing on something else more significant. graphics are also crap considering this is suppose to be the better version. in some sense FP1 is better, the freezing border and steaming water when the temp drops and temp increase respectively. In the last autumn, minor details- birds, ocean wave- the whole map changes to snowy at the end. in contrast, FP2 is just flat white landscape with terrain (sometimes). completely diffferent detail quality once again other things: seen literal line of code while hovering the temperature GUI of course the complete control wipe upon the free dlc recently the new utopia builder map still doesn't require frostbreak when discovered as colony prob more but me tired, just disappointment for someone with 500hr and counting on FP1 never thought i'd rant so much on first review, just how it is when the game you love is so ....ed

This is by no means a terrible game per se, but its not what the sequel to Frostpunk should have been. By over-complicating the base game with additional features that nobody wanted, the studio ruined what made Frostpunk a great game. The first game was simpler, and better. Furthermore, by ditching the previous single scenario setting you have locked us in a room with the worst parts of the game with no means of escape. Even on the easiest setting of the game there are so many factors that have to be addressed lest they get out of hand, that the actual base difficulty of the game remains Nightmare mode. The most accurate and simple review i can give, summed up in one sentence is this: this game made me miss the original game, and want to play IT, not its sequel.

Great game but it keeps crashing and I lose progress which makes me not want to continue to play :(

FP1 is among my favorite games of all time. If you step back and let FP2 be what it is, rather than compete, I think youll appreciate its depth, atmosphere, and new direction. I think it handles the larger scale well, and if FP1s greatest fault was a too black-and-white morality system, FP2 is more complex.

Love this game. it builds upon the first game and I hate that people are not recommending it due to some "it's not the same as the first game" bs. its fun as hell and it follows the natural progresson of people out growing small colonies to people trying to keep a giant city from crumbling, get it.

Frostpunk 2 is an awesome game. Is it the same as Frostpunk 1? No, and that’s okay. I like both for what they are. This one is another great strategy/survival game with heart, brought to us by the talented people at 11 bit studios.

Gotta say... i didnt like this game. i was addicted to the first game but the UI, mechanics, and resource allocation for this one was not as intuitive and at times... very frustrating. i also didnt like how it was less story driven and you had less interaction with the "people" living there. it was lackluster and very boring alot of the time. pretty bummed out and i wouldnt recommend this to anyone.

To those whining about the game not being the same as the first one, can you explain what the story for your Frostpunk 2 would've been? I mean, we survived the first colony - that's the first game. We then had a DLC where we went back in time and actually built the machine. There's also around six scenarios in the first game that are variations of the above. What would've happened in this game, that's small scale like you're asking for? Thing is, if you read the reviews of those DLCs (go on, check) you can see that people are crying that the studio just keeps rehashing the same stuff, or that there's not enough content - but when they actually release a new one, completely different with a massive upgrade in scale - what people seemed to want was just a giant DLC instead? It's so dumb. We as a community have made the review score so irrelevant, nowadays it's just full of grudges, spiteful comments and children attempting to be funny to farm awards. Yawn. This is a great game and I loved it.