Frostpunk: Beyond the Ice

Game is surprisingly good and it holds up well compared to the PC version. Has the tech tree, the law tree and expeditions which gives depth and variety as well as some longevity. I spent a couple bucks to get started on storage. My only gripes: 1. Game is surpisingly easier with surplus of resources (at least about 3-4 hours in) which deviates from PC version that is much hardcore which leads me to my second gripe which is.. 2. You cannot fail. This is the sole mission of this game on the PC version. You can essentially fail with poor law management, city layout, and resource management. Its funny when i open the game (or let it run for a while), be at 0 coal, citizens freezing and the game not ending. Difficulty slider and hardcore mode is the bread and butter of this game, which they shouldnt have taken out. 3. There are plenty of citizen requests in this game, which on paper is good. But it is way too many. I understand the game needs some sort of engagement for mobile gamers which are vastly different from PC gamers but still, it is way too much and i find myself constantly spamming crafts and fulfilling citizen requests which becomes a bit of a chore (akin to something like cookie clicker). Overall its a good game just needs some more polish and a bit of the PC formula to bring back what essentially makes Frostpunk what it is, a hardcore survival city sim.

I want to like this game. But I just spent 20 minutes trying and failing to find a particular building in my town of 40 buildings total. It shouldn’t be this hard. Part of this is because they look so similar and dark I feel like I’m trying to guess the building I need based on the number of windows it has. But I get that the aesthetic it’s important in a game like this, so I would excuse it IF the game made it remotely easy to find anything, which it does not. There are a ton of menus that do a poor job of showing everything they do from the outside, and take way too long to get out of. The buildings that do something other than house your citizens have icons above their roofs when they’ve produced something, and they’re supposed to have an icon when there’s an option, but it’s so, so hard to tell which building is your crafting center and which is house #3F. The specific example that led to 20 min of frustration: I got some flares from logging in. They take up valuable inventory space, so I wanted to use them. The building that lets you do that is supposed to have a firework icon when they’re usable, but it didn’t. And you cannot. Tell. The buildings. Apart. Without that. A recommendation for what would help for this would be some sort of search function for existing buildings that listed them by name and resource instead of having to use the map all the time. As it stands, this game isn’t worth my money, and it isn’t worth the time it takes to get anything productive done.

I’ve been playing Frostpunk for over 2 years now and I’m a big fan of 11 Bit Studios since the start and I must day this is an amazing port that the devs has collaborated to work on!! Absolutely love the aesthetic and is true to the original gameplay on PC! Some things are different which is expected for a mobile game but they are easy to navigate. I still however prefer the original mechanics on PC but that is just my preference and this mobile version is definitely a must get regardless!! Keep it up developers!!