A few hours into my first campaign in city-building survival game Frostpunk 2, I was asked whether I thought parents should be able to accompany their kids into quarantine. A mother had been waiting ...

Frostpunk made a name for itself in 2018 when the designers took a simple icey base builder and gave it higher stakes, aesthetics and intent than other games. It was a short game but brought an ...

The original Frostpunk surprisingly appealed to me, despite my usual disdain for city builder and strategy-style games. I adored the gritty, dark, and often disturbing post-apocalyptic setting of ...

Max has loved video games ever since he booted up his friend's N64 and played Mario Kart. He quickly spent all his allowance on any game he could get his hands on, and spent hours playing a dusty PS2.

I had failed to stockpile enough food. My people were starving in a frigid world of ice and darkness. I had pushed my food gatherers into overtime, I had enforced rationing, and yet we still starved.

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Strategy games are about making choices. Some of these choices are complicated - when to go to war or what type of civilizational goals to embrace - and some are simpler, like choosing which kind of ...

Jason is a classic jack-of-all-trades writer who loves to cover most topics, though gaming has always been his strong suit. After spending the better part of the past decade freelancing for various ...

Frostpunk is the only city builder I have played that managed to tell an immersive story while also offering a gritty and satisfying gameplay. It wasn't about high scores or profit numbers we see with ...

It’s more demanding than a conventional strategy game, but this society-survival game will present a rewarding challenge for ‘Stewards’ who want to guide their snowy dystopia through the hardships of ...

Citizens of New London: As you prepare to banish me from our city forever, I hope you understand that I always had good intentions. I never meant to run out of food, let hundreds of you perish from ...