Mac · PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 4 · Xbox One
3.92 from 780 ratings
3690 members have it in their collection · 77 playing now · 1671 backlogged · 270 wish listed
How long? Main story 14h · with extras 29h · 100% 20h (from 15 logged playthroughs)
Status creativeusername Nov 6, 2025
Frustrating and punishing but fun! You're under constant stress, forced to make tough, unethical decisions hoping that you can keep your population alive for a little longer. The relief when the weather warms a little or when you complete an automaton is incredible. I maybe would have liked the political aspect to have a greater role.
Status Roach Jul 7, 2025
Article: Frostpunk Review - A Frigid, Unrelenting Survival Success
Score Report: 8.75 / 10
"Rarely does an interactive experience keep me awake at night wrestling with big decisions. Frostpunk did this on multiple occasions and made me feel squeamish when forcing edicts upon society instead of building consensus. Extraordinary circumstances call for desperate measures, and all I can do is …
Article: Frostpunk Review - A Frigid, Unrelenting Survival Success
Score Report: 8.75 / 10
"Rarely does an interactive experience keep me awake at night wrestling with big decisions. Frostpunk did this on multiple occasions and made me feel squeamish when forcing edicts upon society instead of building consensus. Extraordinary circumstances call for desperate measures, and all I can do is ask for forgiveness from those trampled by my headstrong approach."
Status QueerCityWitch May 5, 2025
I really like the gameplay, but it’s been hard. I’ll need to really figure out some strategy to finish this one.
Status nsfmc Feb 16, 2025
i think, and this is probably just me, but games like this are very inconsistent in how they expect you to 'think about the game' and how to strategize from the outset. the game wants you to discover these things as you play, but it also makes it very easy for you to get into a spot where you're no …
Read morei think, and this is probably just me, but games like this are very inconsistent in how they expect you to 'think about the game' and how to strategize from the outset. the game wants you to discover these things as you play, but it also makes it very easy for you to get into a spot where you're no longer playing proactively but instead reactively because it's not clear, for instance, how a new item in the tech tree will impact your worker/engineer ratio or aoe effect etc.
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Status nsfmc Feb 16, 2025
i kept seeing this on sale and then realized it was already in my gog library. i like the narrative conceit of "snowpiercer: the game" and especially the way that it makes scenario-based challenges stem organically. beyond the plain mechanics, but i find the law mechanism to be a bit heavy handed. i think it's sort of clear from the …
i kept seeing this on sale and then realized it was already in my gog library. i like the narrative conceit of "snowpiercer: the game" and especially the way that it makes scenario-based challenges stem organically. beyond the plain mechanics, but i find the law mechanism to be a bit heavy handed. i think it's sort of clear from the outset that "sacrifices need to be made" but it would probably be more interesting for people to codify laws based on your administrative malfeasance than for you to propose, say, child labor, and then let the city run with it. that said, even trying to play morally, i only lasted a week before getting sent away.
fun, but it really chugs away on my m2 macbook air in ways that seem unrelated to any specific graphics settings. will probably give it a few more tries but might just have to try on pc.
Status Trost Sep 24, 2024
Replayed this again, but picked the Faith part.
Only 2 out of 600 people died though the main campaign, and 0 in the final blizzard.
I never sent ny people to extended shifts, unlike in my first "order" path playthrough, didn't research half the stuff and still managed better and got the better ending. Heh, faith OP.
Status killerstar Aug 23, 2022
Well it seems that Frostpunk has been a success. My girlfriend is enjoying it and she seems to be doing really well, as far as I can tell, which is surprising considering that I always heard that it was a hard game.
Thanks to everyone who suggested games.
Status killerstar Jun 3, 2021
Free on epic store. I though it was already given away, but I maybe I was wrong because it wasn't on my account.
Status anarchistica Jun 3, 2021
This is free in the Epic store this week:
https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/frostpunk
Another mystery game next week.
Status Juansero29 Apr 4, 2020
Is there any error margin in this game? Or am I such a bad city manager? Holy f. I've done like 5 play throughs and got my ass kicked out of the city each time. This is getting very frustrating.
Status yyninja Feb 29, 2020
I found this game awfully addictive but also time-consuming. There is a general satisfaction making really tough decisions: Should I turn on the heat or turn it off to save some coal? Do I want child laborers when I'm short on workers? Should I abandon the sick or try to get them back home?
Unfortunately, about 4 hours in the …
I found this game awfully addictive but also time-consuming. There is a general satisfaction making really tough decisions: Should I turn on the heat or turn it off to save some coal? Do I want child laborers when I'm short on workers? Should I abandon the sick or try to get them back home?
Unfortunately, about 4 hours in the first scenario, the game puts these arbitrary requirements such as researching a specific technology or stockpiling enough resources. If you didn't strategize that way you're kind of screwed and most likely will need to restart an earlier save. Also I fast-forwarded most of the latter half of the campaign to wait until I could research a technology or build a specific structure.
Status KP_Neato_Dee Oct 23, 2019
Trying this out for the first time. The tutorial: kinda tough to figure out what it wants you to be doing. I'll check out a guide or two and try again later.
Status degghi May 17, 2019
Interesting twist to the city builder genre where an actual game over is not only possible but quite guaranteed (at least the first 10 tries...). Unfortunately once the game is "beat" there's little reason to play more as the challenge are not changing between play through.
Status grainne6 May 10, 2018
This is a big disappointment after This War of Mine. I don't care at all about the little people I can barely see, none of whom have any personality at all. This is just a city building with dull environments and with only three scenarios, which are the same every time. I feel like I must be missing something since …
Read moreThis is a big disappointment after This War of Mine. I don't care at all about the little people I can barely see, none of whom have any personality at all. This is just a city building with dull environments and with only three scenarios, which are the same every time. I feel like I must be missing something since everyone else seems to love it but I'm giving up for now after completing the first scenario - it's just dull.
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