Frostpunk Lead the last city through the freeze

Everything circles one huge coal-fed Generator. You place homes, workplaces, and medical tents in rings around it, then set heating levels as the temperature falls. Coal, wood, steel, and food stay tight, so you roster hunters, gatherers, and engineers where they matter most. Pause the clock, redraw the plan, then watch smoke rise and snow pile against the lamps. Run out of heat and people get sick, then worse.

You pass laws that regulate work hours, child labor, food, and healthcare, from emergency shifts and sawdust meals to prosthetics for the gravely ill. Each law helps production but shifts hope and discontent, and discontent left high can get you thrown out of your own city. Later you choose a harder path through Order or Faith, with watchtowers, prisons, churches, and sermons. There is no undo button, which gives every signature a certain weight.

Citizens are more than numbers. They join factions, file demands, grumble in the streets, and sometimes leave to find London. You meet troubled individuals, frightened families, and newcomers at the gate, and small rulings add up in ways you did not plan. Keep them fed, treated, and warm, and they still find something to complain about. That friction is the point: survival is easy to measure, trust much less so.

The main scenarios give you different starting positions and stories, including the fall of Winterhome, plus expeditions into the Frostland for supplies, survivors, and traces of what happened. Research unlocks sturdier buildings, better heating, and self-powered automatons that work through the cold. When you want to play without an ending, Endless Mode offers 8 maps across Endurance, Builders, and Serenity, from brutal survival to low-pressure city building. Dark streets, falling snow, and a strong orchestral score carry the whole thing.