


We gotta chain up those hands and put them into workhouses for their own good, you see. Or use cannon-mounted automatons to fire upon crowds of protestors who want to take away my wealthy oil barons' capital. You can find out all the latest news by visiting our E3 2023 hub, or you can catch up with our round-up posts of everything that was announced at Summer Game Fest, the Xbox Games Showcase, the PC Gaming Show, Day Of The Devs, and our top highlights from the Wholesome Direct.I don't want another tropico, but I do want to use cannon-mounted automatons to seize the property of ultra-wealthy oil barons for the good of the New London Commune's centrally-planned economy. NotE3 and Summer Game Fest 2023 is over for another year. No specific release date for Frostpunk 2 yet, but as I said before, it should be out sometime in 2024.

It's certainly talking a big talk with that trailer, so let's hope it lives up to expectations. Still not much about how gameplay will differ from the first game just yet, but thematically it looks like we'll be dealing with ethical quandaries perhaps even more brutal than the first game. Just like the first game, you need to scratch together the last of humanity and survive the harsh weather, making tough choices that may or may not involve human sacrifices like the trailer darkly teased. Humans are still reliant on resource-hungry machines, but in this age, coal has been replaced with oil. If you're not up to date with Frostpunk 2, this one takes place thirty years after the post-apocalyptic blizzard swallowed the Earth. It's incredibly unpleasant, but I am so pumped to play it. The cinematic trailer (so no gameplay just yet) showed lots of fire, general chaos, and lots of dead bodies, as well as a gritty narrator justifying human sacrifice for innovation. So much so that I'm already dreading the choices that this follow-up will chuck at me. Okay, but like this trailer scares me a little.
