Frostpunk 2

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Played on a different platform before. I need to say, this game is exactly what I wanted it to be. Nothing like Frostpnuk 1 and as exactly unique as it needs to be. While playing, you find yourself juggling through problems like making sure everyone is fed and heated while a faction like Faithkeepers are breathing down your neck to pass a law about children's education and now you're trying to convince the New Londoners ( yes! the people from the first game!) to vote in favor of the law by promising to heat them in the next ten weeks; wait, we were out of fuel already. You need to open a new oil pump. wait, you don't have enough workforce for it. you got 400, you need 600. Didn't you have 700? no, apparently 300 of them died this week from the cold. maybe brining in 2000 more people from outside could help? even if 500 died from the cold too, you'd have 1500 more than you used to. You can manage to make houses for them too probably, right? Well, time for a vote in the council. The new law passed after your promises. Wait, apparently you passed a different law for the children's education in the past. You don't even remember. Now another different radical faction, evolvers, are mad at you. You need to do something before they riot. The oil isn't enough. everyone is going to starve. Riots already started in the street; not for the oil running out, but for the old law to come back again. It's up to you to figure out the resources, not the people. The scenario given above is an average scenario, not really a doomsday scenario even, in this game. The game makes you mad at these factions for asking for things like children's education or even more minute laws like, say, where the surplus heat is allocated to or work performance bonuses. You are here trying to make sure they are all fed and housed while they worry about these things. Things used to be simpler when you were the old captain in the first game. Everybody just tried to survive. Now it seems like everybody has gone crazy. Nobody listens to you. What do you mean they are voting me out because I didn't pass the law they wanted me to? I didn't even have time to pass it! the next voting was in 7 weeks! what did they want me to do? The game makes you infuriated at the people. You never can make EVERYONE happy, no matter how comfortable you make them. Sure, if you are good enough the people may trust you, but that doesn't mean all groups of people will be happy with you. This game is a great sequel to Frostpunk 1 in the sense that the scenarios you deal with really show what happens when the population grows. I think I need to mention again; the first game went up to a few hundred people max. In here, you think of the civilians just as numbers. you don't see that 10 people die and be upset, you see that 300 died and get mad at the New Londoners for not shutting up about it. It really mentally put you in the shoes of being a leader in a harsh environment for a large group of people. This is seen as a flaw by some people that view this game negatively. I think it is the aim of the game and I also think that it is it's greatest strength. Frostpunk 2, although not as essential of a video game experience as Frostpunk 1, is a great sequel that does everything it needs to close to perfect. EDIT: I can't help but not mention any negatives here. Specifically one big negative. The new engine. Unreal Engine 5 keeps on being a plague on the industry. This game makes my computer (specs available for the review) choke more than it should. I also have encountered some very small problems, but no game breaking bugs. Especially compared to the day 1 experience.