Frostpunk 2 Steam Charts & Stats

They tried and succeeded in making FP2 a bigger and in some ways better survival city builder. But as a result, they completely lost the intimacy and tense feeling that made Frostpunk special in the first place. FP1 was a near perfect foundation for what this game is trying to be - and it didn't need to be completely restructured in this way. You used to feel invested in your colony's survival, every decision had immediate and tangible consequences. If 5-10 people died it had the potential to devastate your colony and lead to failure. That feeling of "being on the razors edge" is completely absent in this game - and its a real shame.

After the perfection of Frostpunk which is one of my Top 3 Games of all time they bring out this trash. Absolute disappointment after waiting for this game to come out for such a long time.

Overall I am disappointed. The first game was incredible. Difficult ethical decisions mixed with a rewarding city management system. The expansions were also amazing and deepened the story while providing new opportunities to play a variation of the main style. Frostpunk 2 falls flat in every direction. The political system feels cheap and creates a strange barter system for laws. Decisions don't matter at all; it's just a matter of who do you want to make mad and then placate. Exploration is boring. The game is buggy. There is an endless cyclical requirement of needing a law to research something on the tech tree and vice versa. The janky hexagonal builds. I've had to push myself to finish the story; who knows if I will. The first game is endlessly re-playable and still provides such a satisfying gaming experience. I was so excited for this game. What an absolute disappointment.

Sadly it's terrible, the team took a swing and missed terribly. It plays like an incredibly boring hex strategy game and is completely devoid of the incredible stories that made the first so memorable. The automatons working through the storms at the end of the first game is easily in my top 10 or 20 gaming moments ever. Ah well lightning doesn't strike twice.

People criticise it for being different than the first game, however the games are doing different things. The first game is apocalyptic, a crisis that you're having to survive. Meanwhile the second game can be described as post-apocalyptic. You survived the crisis, so now what? I really like this game. It's less of a colony management game, and more of a society simulator. Different interest groups clamouring to make their vision of the city come true, and you having to balance these groups so that they don't tear the city apart. I've yet to play a game that is such a good society simulator. Frostpunk 2 will have you granting one interest group an agenda in parliment to make them happy, then having you promise another interest group to fulfill one of their demands so they vote against whatever insane law the first group proposed. It will have you delay building an objectively good building until it is more politically advantageous to do so. It will have you start up a new game where you promise yourself to be a good little democrat, and then hours later do the video game equivelant to the ba'ath party purge as you declare yourself dictator and send in jackbooted thugs to break up riots. If the above appeals to you, I greatly recommend Frostpunk 2. It manages to scratch an itch that I've wanted scratched for years. It manages to be a politics sim that doesn't feel dry. It feels like it represents a real society, and not an excel sheet made by a polisci major that worships rules.

I couldnt help but stop playing. The game is very random, no way to track the use of resources, it has just become a situation where you look at what resources are needed ibn the resource panel and build the needed biudlings and so on. No way for me to know how much the 2000 frostlanders I will bring in will use of coal, and how many daily scraps will they give, just a punch of random shit that doesn't allow me to strategies at all. Frost punk 1 was waaaaay better, way way better

Won Best Strategy Game for a reason. Despite the complaints that Frostpunk 2 is too different from Frostpunk 1 (which it should be; it's an entirely new entry), it will undoubtedly age well as a fresh and competently made successor, especially as the sequel is yet to receive its DLCs and free major updates compared to the years of support FP1 has had. Truly the HBO Original of city/survival games.

I am a veteran and fan of the original Frostpunk, clocking hundreds of hours, and getting every possible achievement through all of the DLC. I read the reviews of FP2, and went into it understanding that it was a different feel than the original, which I was okay with. That being said I really wanted to like this game, and gave it several hours to familiarize myself with the mechanics. It's just not fun, simple as that. The game has no heart, the politics are annoying, the research feels tedious, and I just don't enjoy playing it. I wanted to love this game so much and was seriously disappointed, I would not recommend this game to anybody.

I don't think Frostpunk 2 deserves the current 63% positive rating, it is still an objectively good game, but with a completely different approach from the first game. This game is centered much more in the politics part than a city planner, laws are way more detailed and your people's relations make the biggest impact in the game, more so than how you designed your city. Infrastructures are now built in 'districts' rather than specific buildings (except the additional buildings you would put atop districts as upgrades) to simplify the development of your city. Now here are my personal opinions, there are pros and cons to how those gameplay mechanics work. I believe having a simple way of planning your city's development helps reduce complexity to better get a grasp on the story of the game, however this felt too simple for me, it didn't feel rewarding anymore to build my city as the game progresses. This game has also turned into a numbers game where your decisions' effectiveness are determined from your resources going higher or lower, which is not that interesting for me. I wish there are special events that visually shows your city getting affected, not just logos that pop out of the screen. I also feel detached from my community because I don't see people going around unless I zoom reaally close to open that "view district mode" which doesn't have any gameplay purpose other than for aesthetic reason. I also don't have control over automatons like in the first game which is a complete bummer, instead I would only "feel" they are there based from the sudden increase of my workforce. I wish the game also has an organic growth of the infrastructures to compensate for the simplified district-building, like seeing more and more structures being built by your community the longer it is there with different varieties the more funds you give to a certain faction. And speaking about factions, I wish every faction has a clear identity and impact to the game, only the ones with radical views are actually more meaningful, the rest are kind of just there "watching" as the other factions create events or conflicts. Lastly, I wish you can build outposts wherever available, the map is such a nice place for city-building connecting to your main city, but we are restricted from the linear story which makes it less replayable. Overall a beautiful game with rich story and world-building, amazing music and sound effects, interesting law mechanics, but lacked visual gameplay and has very restricted design mechanics. 7.5/10 for me

It's quite sad to see this game being criticised so much because of the differences with the original Frostpunk. It's totally different, true... so what? I actually think it was a brave move to develop a sequel with completely different mechanics. It´s simplified. maybe. If you try at higher difficulties, I at least personally don't find it that trivial of a game. it's short. This one's actually the only real criticism i share. The story mode can be completed in 10 hours, maybe a bit more. Does the game deserve 37% negative reviews for this? i leave the answer to you.