When I visited 11 bit studios in Warsaw, Poland for a double-billed previe😼w event featuring The Alters and Frostpunk 2, I had never played the first game in the post-apocalyptic strategy series. I’d read about it as part of my pre-event due diligence, but I’d never bought it, let alone spent time with it. I figured that the high difficulty would put me off, or the depth of its mechanics would frustrate me, or paradoxically, that I’d love the complex gameplay so much that I would lock in and never🀅 be able to lock out.
Beyond that, I didn’t really have any expectations. I knew the broad strokes from my colleague Matt Arnold’s 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:previous coverage, but I wasn’t sure if I’d love it, hate it, or be completely ambivalent. To my great dismay, within fifteen minutes of starting the main story campaign, I was completely hooked. My full, comprehensive preview is here, but I’m not here to talk about the gameplay – I’m here to talk about how it’s r⭕uined my life.
I Came Out A Frostpunk Zealot
I wasn’t a fan before, but I sure am now. Frostpunk 2’s deep systems are impressive, but many of them already existed in some form in the first game, which the sequel builds on directly. When I got out of the dark room where we played the preview build, I was absolutely ravenous for more, but Frostpunk 2 doesn’t release until July. So despite the fact that I hate sitting at my PC to play games, the very day I got home from my trip, I bought Frostpunk on Steam and started playing. This was at 7pm with oodles of jetlag and far better things to be doing than b🐻ingeing a strategy game like this. God help me.
I played through the main scenario, smashing my head against it over and over again until I worked out some semblance of a working strategy. I took a brief break for dinner, because I’d gotten so sucked into the game that I forgot to eat. Then I went straight back to it, playing through the sunset, and then some. Eventually, my partner re-entered the roo♏m and started laughing. “What?” I demanded. Still laughing, he showed me the time on his phone.
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God help me, it was three in the morning, and I had work the next day. I hadn’t even realised I’d been sitting at my PC for an ungodly length of time, much longer than I’ve ever done in one sitting, even for my beloved . Fine, I deci✃ded, I’d go to bed. I lay in bed for 30 minutes, unable to fall asleep, because I was thinking about Frostpunk.
This continued all week. I’d play Frostpunk till at least two in the morning before coming to my senses and realising that I still had to maintain a social life, work out, and sleep at a reasonable time. My days started later and later, 💎throwing off the circadian rhythm I’d worked for🤡 months to maintain – I used to wake up with the sun, and now I wake up after five snoozed alarms, disoriented, and thinking about Frostpunk.
Where Is The Warning Label On This Game?!
I know that eventually I&rsq♋uo;ll run out of Frostpunk scenarios to replay, but there are wider-ranging consequences than just me getting really fixated on one game. I’ve suddenly developed an interest in an entire genre of games that I never really cared about, precisely because I thought they would be too complex for my dual-celled brain to grok. Suddenly, my Steam library is filling up with city-builders, and my ears begin to prick up at the mention of the genre.
Is this a bad thing? It depends💝. My sudden interest in the genre means that a lot of cool games that previously never would have fallen on my radar now have my attention, whic🌠h in turn means that I get to play more cool games. On the other hand, I am playing cool games all the time, and I do not have an infinite amount of time in a week. Something has to give, and I’m not sure yet what that’s going to be. I know for sure, though, that it’s not going to be my Frostpunk habit; not until I finish it.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Frostpunk 2
- Top Critic Avg: 85/100 Critics Rec: 96%
- Released
- September 20, 2024
- ESRB
- M For Mature 17+ Due To Blood, Drug Reference, Sexual Themes, Strong Language, Violenc𝕴e
- Developer(s)
- 😼 11 Bit Studios
- Publisher(s)
- 🔯11 Bit Studios
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 5
11 bit studios' Frostpunk 2 blends city-building, survival, and strategy mechanics as it challenges players to survive on a post-apocalyptic Earth with power-hungry humans.
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