Frostpunk game developers, 11 Bit Studios announced a sequel to its winter-apocalypse survival city builder, Frostpunk 2. According to reports, it is still early in development and has no set release date as of the moment.

Frostpunk 2 Details

11 Bit Studios has also stated that Frostpunk 2 will take cues from the original game, but will feature some new political mechanics. Additionally, it will also be set 30 years after the first game. Coal will also be making way for a new fundamental resource: oil. Frostpunk 2 co-director Jakub Stokalski describes the game's tone with the following:

“And Frostpunk 2 in this sense, is actually a post-apocalyptic game, in a way. The cities did survive. And again, what will happen next, this is the big question. So I would say that the overall themes of the game are not going to be all beds of roses. I would say that it's going to be somewhat different in tone from the original.”

Frostpunk 2 is also confirmed to launch on Steam, Epic Game Store, and GOG. An official cinematic trailer has also launched on YouTube:

Frostpunk Free to Play Weekend on Steam

The original game, Frostpunk, is also free to play on Steam this weekend. City-builder fans should definitely give it a try, as it is one of the most unforgiving games in the genre. It is set in a winter apocalypse in the middle of the industrial revolution, and players are tasked with keeping their small settlement of survivors alive.

Frostpunk also featured several tough in-game choices, some of which include child-labor policies, and whether to rule through might or through faith. It is a city-builder with survival at the forefront, where resources are almost always scarce, and there is some form of impending disaster at every turn.

The game original game also got three expansions – On the Edge, The Last Autumn, and The Rifts. All three come with different campaign scenarios that make for an interesting mix-up of the game's core mechanics.