

You can find out all the latest news by visiting our E3 2023 hub, or you can catch up with our round-up posts of everything that was announced at Summer Game Fest, the Xbox Games Showcase, the PC Gaming Show, Day Of The Devs, and our top highlights from the Wholesome Direct. NotE3 and Summer Game Fest 2023 is over for another year. No specific release date for Frostpunk 2 yet, but as I said before, it should be out sometime in 2024.

It's certainly talking a big talk with that trailer, so let's hope it lives up to expectations. Still not much about how gameplay will differ from the first game just yet, but thematically it looks like we'll be dealing with ethical quandaries perhaps even more brutal than the first game. Just like the first game, you need to scratch together the last of humanity and survive the harsh weather, making tough choices that may or may not involve human sacrifices like the trailer darkly teased. Humans are still reliant on resource-hungry machines, but in this age, coal has been replaced with oil. If you're not up to date with Frostpunk 2, this one takes place thirty years after the post-apocalyptic blizzard swallowed the Earth. It's incredibly unpleasant, but I am so pumped to play it. The cinematic trailer (so no gameplay just yet) showed lots of fire, general chaos, and lots of dead bodies, as well as a gritty narrator justifying human sacrifice for innovation. So much so that I'm already dreading the choices that this follow-up will chuck at me. That’s because this trailer confirms that Frostpunk 2 will finally release for PC in 2024.Okay, but like this trailer scares me a little. While we haven’t seen what that will exactly look like in terms of gameplay yet, we thankfully won’t have to wait that long to learn. select a Press Kit from the list and press the Download button. So, it looks like this time, the tough decisions players will have to make will be a lot more personal and truly tied to the wants of your city’s people, which should make things a lot tougher. Frostpunk 2 is the sequel to the highly acclaimed, BAFTA-nominated society survival game. Because ultimately, what can end us is not nature itself - it’s human nature.” 11 bit Studios “We still use that postapocalyptic, frozen setup, to tell a meaningful story about human ambition, societies striving for their ideas, and the consequences of hard decisions which are not always respected by everyone.

“This time the inner turmoils, sparked by rising social differences, mean that players will be facing new kinds of threats that are beyond the bare survival from the first game,” Stokalski explained. According to a comment from the game’s co-director Jakub Stokalski, that means the people living within the cities will be a lot more ambitious and active in this sequel. A press release about the game delves more into the game’s premise, revealing that Frostpunk 2 actually takes place 30 years after the storm that kicked off the events of the first game. The new trailer for Frostpunk 2 is purely cinematic, showing a city run by a powerful leader falling into chaos.
