In case there just isn't enough despair in your life, fear not: the incredibly grim city-building simulator Frostpunk is coming to PS4 and Xbox One October 11 at $30 USD. Originally released exclusively on PC in April of 2018, Frostpunk tasks you with surviving and leading the last city on Earth to prosperity in the face of a worldwide ice age caused by a catastrophic volcanic event. Not exactly SimCity.
If you can get past the distress, hopelessness, and general unpleasantness of heading the charge against the extinction of the human race in a post-apocalyptic winter world, Frostpunk offers an inventive take on the city-building sim that smartly blends survival and decision-making elements into the formula. As expected, the snow-powdered landscapes are bleak and decrepit, and the story is about as heavy as it gets, but there's some fun to be had for fans of the survival and city-building genres. We even ranked Frostpunk among our favorite city-building games.
"We redesigned pretty much every game element to work intuitively with a gamepad. Among the new, console-specific UI changes we have an express menu for quick access to most common building actions, easy to use choice-wheels, top-down view for precise building placement, upscaled icons, and much more. We truly believe it will become a new benchmark for the genre on Xbox One and PlayStation 4," said Stokalski.
