I’m thinking about clearing some room on my SSD and downloading it. Thoughts? Is it possible to win without going full fash?
I know it’s not what you’re asking, but I highly recommend Against the Storm. It’s similar to Frostpunk in some ways but in others it’s much better.
What I really want to play is Vic 3, but that costs money and frostpunk is free, for me.
It’s a blend of RTS and colony management and it’s super bleak, moody, and triumphant all at it once.
agree with what everyone else is saying about it being great and that you dont need to go full fash (and it very much presents that as being a “soft” failure even if you keep people alive)
just want to add that the last autumn dlc is excellent and theres an explicitly pro-labour path thats pretty good and lets you establish militant unions etc (the end of that path is very silly, but theres no reason you have to go there). the alternative elitist path is deliberately grim as fuck and shows exactly where that sort of path would lead in that sort of scenario
its a good game! I did my first playthrough without any of the shitty tech (kid labor, sawdust food, cannibalism), it was pretty fun. its got some alright DLC too, i’d say give it a shot
I really liked it. It’s a lot more challenging than most city builders, and when you finally manage to win no matter which tech route you chose you get asked “was it worth it” to survive considering how hard you had to work everyone, which makes the implicit goal to survive without doing any of the bad stuff. Once I finished it a couple times though I lost interest, because while it was fun to beat it doesn’t have any of the longevity of most city buildy games.
