Sep 3, 2019

Citizens of New London! For you Children of Morta with 10% loyalty discount!

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Hello there Citizens of New London! For you Children of Morta with 10% loyalty discount!

Today Children of Morta debuts on Steam and if you own Frostpunk, you can get this game - a brand new action RPG about family of heroes - with a 10% discount.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/330020/Children_of_Morta/

What is this extraordinary RPG about?

Children of Morta is a story-driven action RPG game about an unusual family of heroes. Lead the Bergsons, with all their flaws and virtues, against the forthcoming Corruption. Children of Morta sets its story in a distant land but copes with themes closer to our daily lives than one would expect. It’s a tale of simple emotions that we all know and value more than we sometimes dare to admit: love and hope, longing and uncertainty, and the loss and sacrifice we are willing to make to save the ones we care the most for. Children of Morta is not a story about saving the universe. It’s a story about a valiant family standing together while the world around them is being devoured by darkness.

Have a taste of the atmosphere with the launch trailer!

And now dive into the world of Children of Morta!

Aug 30, 2019

Patch update with hotfixes!

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Hello there Citizens!

Frostpunk got a patch update a moment ago with following fixes and improvements:

- Steamhubs now consume coal while they didn't in some cases. That's fixed!
- Fixed an issue with duplicated steel resources on The Rifts map

That's not all as we got more feedback from you with some bugs and issues and we're working on it right as this is being posted. Keep sending us feedback please so we can improve the game.

thank you Citizens!

Aug 28, 2019

Frostpunk expands with a Season Pass!

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Hello Citizens of New London!

Frostpunk universe is expanding now with Season Pass. First thing for you to taste is The Rifts - mini-expansion adding a new Endless Mode map and a new constructible building – The Bridge. Bridge the rifts to access new areas and expand your city in unprecedented ways.

This is an introduction to two following expansions. Big stuff! First one will be "The Last Autumn" - the biggest expansion to Frostpunk - and as you may guess, one of the things to consider when thinking about it is that even the longest winter has its first day. Then the concluding expansion to this Season Pass is named Project TVADGYCGJR. And regarding it, the scouts of New London are currently in search of the information about this. Expect more info just when The Last Autumn begins,

Learn all the details from the graphics here:

Additionally, there's a free update to the game as well. New Endless Mode maps land in the game: Frozen Grove, Snowdrifts and Hanging Rock based on The Arks, Refugees and Fall of Winterhome scenario maps.

Also, there's a bunch of fixes:
- fixed a bug with save files not being created in Spanish and Italian language versions
- fixed a bug which caused save files to disappear
- disabled backward compatibility for save files before patch 1.3.3
- many minor fixes

Thanks. Stay warm!

Aug 27, 2019

Frostpunk's first paid DLC The Rifts and season pass are out now

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Developer 11 Bit Studios has launched The Rifts, the first of three planned paid DLC updates for its superb post-apocalyptic city builder Frostpunk.

The Rifts, which follows over a year of free content updates, introduces a brand-new Endless Mode map to Frostpunk, offering a challenging new twist on the game's already punishing city building core. Not only must players gather and build to fight the freeze of Frostpunk's endless winter, they now have to contend with a ravine-scarred map split into awkward landmasses, making expansion and survival that much harder. To assist players in their struggle, The Rifts adds new constructible bridges, and an assortment of other new mechanics.

Frostpunk's second paid DLC offering, The Last Autumn, arrives in Q4 this year, and is described as a "prequel expansion" beginning on the first day of the big freeze. The developer says The Last Autumn will, alongside new lore and narrative, introduce a brand-new scenario "with game-changing mechanics and unique architecture".

Aug 27, 2019

Frostpunk's first expansion and season pass are out today

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Frostpunk, the best sim of 2018, is beckoning survivors back to the frosty wasteland. The unrelentingly gloomy management game's first expansion is out today, along with a season pass that will net players another pair of expansions further down the line.

The first expansion, The Rifts, introduces a new map for Endless mode that will challenge you to build in a city in a really dumb place. The little land you've got to build on is separated by massive chasms, so you'll need to plonk down bridges and figure out how to keep a scattered city warm.

I had a hard enough time keeping a decent number of people alive when I had plenty of real estate. By the end everyone was dropping by flies and I was only really saved by the bell, so this might be a challenge too far for me.

The Rifts is available today for £3.99/$4.99 on Steam, and it's also included in the season pass. Two more expansions are set to appear, starting later this year with The Last Autumn, introducing a new scenario, mechanics and architecture. That'll be followed next year by Project TVADGYCGJR. The title is a code waiting to be cracked, apparently, but we'll also find out more when The Last Autumn launches.

A free update will throw a trio of maps into Endless mode, based on the Arks, Refugees and Fall of Winterhome scenarios. All Frostpunk players will be able to take them for a spin. It's also received quite a few big updates since launch, so if you've not frozen your arse off for a year, you'll have several new modes and scenarios to play.

Jul 11, 2019

Frostpunk plummets to its lowest price at Fanatical

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Usually I'd be writing about the hottest gaming deals but given the title in question, this is a much chillier offer than we're used to.

For the next seven days at Fanatical, you can get icy city-building survival sim Frostpunk for only 11.24. All you need to do is add the code 'FROSTPUNK10' at the checkout.

Fanatical is calling that the lowest price the game has ever been - and I certainly haven't seen it drop any further than that before.

Jul 8, 2019

How climate crisis games' could better model our problems and our future

Half-Life 2 - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Robert Yang)

In Vectorpark s Sandcastles, you build fantastic towers and watch the waves erase your work every 10 seconds. It s a very direct metaphor for the global climate crisis that threatens to flood coastal cities and exacerbate natural disasters. Sandcastles confronts us with our totally predictable watery doom, but we also find fun and expression in our totally foreseeable destruction. When the planet dies, at least we ll be entertained.

Before you commit to starving and drowning, you should probably understand how and why it ll happen. To imagine this nightmarish hellworld, readers can flip through climate fiction novels ( cli-fi ) and movie-goers can watch a big unprofitable climate disaster blockbuster every few years. But us mouse-clickers, we obviously don t read books or watch movies. Instead, we play with climate. Behold, the climate crisis game.

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Jul 2, 2019

The 20 best management games on PC

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A lot of genres have had a resurgence over the past five years, but none more successfully than management games. There are now more ways to direct trains, lay conveyor belts, coral visitors and profit, profit, profit than you could play in a lifetime. The question is: which of these famous timesinks is worth your time, and which of the whipsmart new hires can compete against the hagard, seen-it-all old dogs?

That’s what this list is for. These are 20 best management games you can play right now on PC, in no particular order, and updated for 2019.

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Jun 23, 2019

Frostpunk, 2018's best sim, is half price on Steam right now

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Grim city-building survival game Frostpunk, which we named 2018's best sim, is 50% off on Steam right now. It's $15/£12.50—its lowest ever price, according to deal site IsThereAnyDeal.

In Frostpunk, you slowly build a city in a frozen world that offers very few resources. It's tough, and miserable at times: you'll contemplate horrific decisions just to make it through the day, such as mixing sawdust into meals to bulk them out, or sending children to work in dangerous factories. Your citizens will often freeze, fall ill or starve, and if they're unhappy enough they can even banish you from your own city.

Chris sung its praises in his 89/100 review, calling it a "stressful, stylish, and addictive survival management game filled with incredibly difficult choices". Once you've started a campaign, its very hard to tear yourself away.

The 50% off deal lasts until Tuesday, and you can grab it here. If you need more convincing, it's also on our list of the best PC games you can play right now.