Frostpunk 2 announcement for free#
Frostpunk 2 announcement plus#

Frostpunk 2 announcement for free#

As an added bonus to accompany the announcement, you can try the original Frostpunk for free on Steam from August 12-16.

Frostpunk 2 announcement plus#

According to Stokalski, it's still 'pretty early in development.'īut there's a plus side as you consider there might be a long wait to get your hands on Frostpunk 2. I can say that while oil is definitely the big actor, the ultimate hero and antihero remains the society, right? For us, Frostpunk 2 is still going to be a society survival game, just interpreted in a different way than the original.'ġ1 Bit Studios hasn't announced a release date or even a year for Frostpunk 2.

'I cannot talk very specifically about the role and how the society will play out around this. 'We don't want to just make a bigger game, right? We want to make a broader game in terms of keeping to the themes in Frostpunk 1 but telling more about different aspects of the biggest enemy out there, which is human nature.'Īs far as how the mad scramble for oil will come into play and how it will shape your society in Frostpunk 2, he was pretty tight-lipped. Stokalski also said the scope and scale of Frostpunk 2 is bigger than the original, but not just in physical size. I would say that it's going to be somewhat different in tone from the original.' So I would say that the overall themes of the game are not going to be all beds of roses. And again, what will happen next, this is the big question. 'And Frostpunk 2, in this sense, is actually a post-apocalyptic game, in a way. And in this sense it was doom and gloom and everything worse and worse all around. 'But I would say that it's interesting, because internally with Łukasz Juszczyk, my co-director and co-partner in crime, we often talk about Frostpunk was really an apocalyptic game, right? It took place in the time that basically everything was going to shit. 'If you know our last two games, hope is not very high on our themes list,' Stokalski said, laughing. I asked about the planet itself, and if it's still getting colder or if the climate is recovering and steering toward a warmer and potentially more hopeful future. And not only you, but society as a whole.' 'I would say Frostpunk 2 is going to be about what happens when you actually survive the unsurvivable. Given the bleak setting of the Frostpunk games, it's probably both.'The question really becomes, what's next?' said Stokalski. It remains to be seen whether people are resistant to conflict with other communities, chasing oil instead of coal or a combination of both. That said, it appears some of the game's mechanics will involve traditionalists in the city we are managing since not everyone will welcome this new direction. The whole marketing campaign is also focused on snow, blood and oil so you pretty much get the idea what we will be doing in the game and what we will be chasing.

Speaking of which, the main fuel in the first Frostpunk may have been coal but the sequel is modernizing a bit since we will be mostly chasing oil this time around. Will see the remnants of humanity killing each other over precious resources. Not only that, the humanity managed to push forward as Frostpunk showed us a bleak future should the climate go haywire and it appears that our efforts in the game paid off as the canon is now that the city we directed has managed to survive.