A pinnacle of steam-powered technology - the iconic Generator - and two other models, recreated according to the blueprints of the finest New London engineers, are now available as a free DLC for Model Builder.

Model Builder, made by our friendly team of Moonlit, is all about assembling amazing machines part by part. Frostpunk models, made with those from Frostpunk: The Board Game as a foundation, will join the set of over 30 models - tanks, planes, cars, submarines, ships, and even giant robots - waiting to be constructed from scratch in the game. Frostpunk DLC contains the Generator - a burning heart of New London - labor easing wonder, the Automaton, and the mighty Land Dreadnought, a powerful locomotive used to pave the way over Frostlands.





Also, Model Builder and Frostpunk are now packed together in the Frost Builder Bundle, for the enjoyment of deals hunters, with a 20-percent discount for the first game, stunning 75-percent for the second, and a further 20-percent discount on top for bundled purchase.

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/25103/Frost_Builder_Bundle/

Dear Citizens.

As our city prospers, we need to reach for the uncharted to maintain its growth. Your Administration is pleased to inform you about attempts underway to expand our influence. On behalf of the Imperial Exploration Company, in the upcoming months, two brave Scouts will travel through the frozen nooks of Norway. They will send back reports on the weather conditions and everyday hardships they encounter in order to share knowledge about survival in hostile conditions. It is the Administration’s honor and privilege to share these accounts of their deeds with you.





Now let Lars Andreas Melsæter and John William Baier Hofoss - the two Frostpunk fans who approached us with an invitation to take part in their incredible journey - share a few words about themselves.


Lars:
I’m 22 years old. Born and raised in Molde, in the midst of the mountains, hills, and fjords of Møre og Romsdal, western Norway. My heritage traces to a long line of fishermen from the island-village of Bjørnsund.

After finishing my 14th year off school with flying colours, I decided not to devote myself to an education I did not care for and applied to Folkehøgskolen 69 Grader Nord in northern Norway. Folkehøgskole's unorthodox teaching covers hunting, dog keeping, clothing making, pathfinding, and all other skills that one might need to travel in northern Norway. The studying lasted for two semesters. Prior to moving to the far North, I actively participated in the local scout section for more than a decade, mostly in leadership positions. Scouting and the outdoors have been a great passion of mine for most of my life. Though I spent hundreds of nights outside and covered thousands of kilometres on foot, I have never undertaken anything of the scale we are about to embark on. I have long dreamt of a journey like this, and hopefully, it shall only be the first of many. Because of that, I moved to Tromsø in order to plan the expedition from here.

The peace of the woods and mountains, along with the simplicity of one’s basic needs, has always been the way for me to retreat and relax in an otherwise stressful lifestyle. I enjoy quiet evenings by the fireside for the view but granted my upbringing I do not like sitting still if it is uncalled for. Somewhat countering this love for peace and quiet, I am also known for highly ambitious trips and projects, and like pushing myself physically hard for no particular reason. Cabins are wonderful and cosy, but seeing, feeling, and doing the extreme ends of the spectrum are thrills and accomplishments are difficult to surpass.


John:
I have been fond of nature for most of my life. I’m 20 years old, and grew up in the Norwegian countryside, in Hadeland, surrounded by forest and hills. Here I hiked a lot with my family. Also, a common practice for kindergartens and primary schools is to let the children play in nature, so I took part in that.

In my area, countryside cross-country skiing is not as common as the one in pre-made tracks, so I was a stranger to it until school. My chosen subject centred on planning and executing expeditions in the mountains of Northern Norway. One assignment was to make a group for a planned 18 day trip without a teacher, and it made me fall for long expedition-like trips. I had no experience in the snowy mountains and plateaus of northern Norway, but I feel this half-year has taught me enough to take on this expedition. During my journeys, I also developed a love for photography, and for the expedition upgraded from a small, cheap camera to much more expensive equipment to better capture the wilderness. I adore photographing parts of nature that very few people have seen.

After school expeditions, I knew I wanted to continue, albeit sleeping in a tent for a long time really makes you appreciate four walls and a roof over your head. I moved to Tromsø to study urban planning, while also going on hiking or skiing trips. And when I started to feel limited by my studies and short, two-day trips related to them, Lars' proposition came. We knew each other from the expedition school and he told me that he’s going on a 4-5 month trip all around Northern Norway. After some consideration, I quit my studies and decided to come along.

Those fine gentlemen, accompanied by two lovely dogs: the black one named Gøril and the white one named Mikey, will attempt to cover approximately 1800 kilometres of various terrain on foot. Their initial report talked about expecting a little daylight and below minus 40 degrees centigrade before the spring gradually brings the light and thaws up the North.



The starting part of the journey - going by ship from Tromsø along the coast to the far east settlement of Vardø - left the crew with light seasickness. After a slight delay, Lars and John were ready to move into the actual first stage of the expedition that concluded in the municipality of Tana. “It’s a flat open terrain, but also a difficult, river-cut one, with limited vegetation and relatively frequent whiteouts” - explains Lars. “Along with not being used to the camp routines and being in worse physical shape than later, the unfamiliar whiteout-prone landscape makes this the segment I personally look the least forward to. The Varangerhalvøya National Park does hold its unique charm, though I believe it to be more spectacular in the spring. There are luckily a few cabins here and if the weapon accusation goes through, we may stay and hunt for a while. The temperatures here may vary but will not be as low as the peninsula is hated by the sea surrounding it. As of writing this the temperature at the middle of the peninsula is minus 15 degrees Celsius”.


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We wish our Scouts all the best. The New London Administration will provide you with more updates as the expedition progresses.

Hello Family!

The day you all have been patiently waiting for has finally come. Today Children of Morta gets its most anticipated free update - the online co-op. What’s more - everyone willing to try it can now download the game for free on Steam for a limited time.

You know it’s better to face challenges together. See this in the trailer here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrvARwiOW0o

The heroic Bergson family began their epic journey with the launch of Children of Morta in September 2019, and the online co-op update marks the eighth and final stop on the game’s Development Roadmap. Previous updates introduced new difficulty levels, the Family Trails mode, a new playable character, and more. In addition, the ‘Paws and Claws’ charity DLC helped raise thousands of dollars for Humane Society International. Now, the Online Co-op update is available for all players for free (note the console version is still in the works).



The introduction of an online co-op means that noble warriors from distant lands can fight side by side, and those brave enough to pick up against the Corruption can foretaste this adventure without any cost. If you’re willing to invite to a co-op session a friend who doesn’t have the game in his Steam library, then Children of Morta will be available for free to try on Steam between February 14th at 7 PM CET (10 AM PT, 1 PM ET) and February 18th at 7 PM CET (10 AM PT, 1 PM ET).

For those enjoying monster-slaying during the free period, Children of Morta will be significantly discounted with minus 65% for the base game, and minus 60% for the Complete Edition, containing also both paid DLC-s (Paws and Claws charity DLC/Ancient Spirits new character DLC).

Finally, the Onlice Co-op is available in both game modes - Story and Family Trials!

Best,
Dead Mage & 11 bit studios
https://store.steampowered.com/app/330020/Children_of_Morta/

The evening is quiet, streets lit up with the yellowed moons of street-lanterns, the sky above once more filled with the acrid, heavy to breathe-in smoke. Thomas grabs at the broom Mother gave him, the wooden handle chipped with old, smelly paint that grits against his reddened hands, cracked and bloodied from the frostbite, with callouses that have broken up and healed with puss that stained the papers, that made the boss-man yell and yank at him.

His tongue instinctively moves to the broken tooth, running around its rough edges that met the sidewalk that day, the taste of dried blood soothing the dull ache.

Thomas could not get his supper if too many newspapers were damaged, and this week, half of them are good for nothing. The bandages given in the infirmary bled through, and till they heal, he has content with the street cleaner duty. It’s still better than rotting in a cell, mind you, especially given the approaching frost.

He peers over the window sill inside one of the tenement buildings, a cheeky fireplace and green fir branches blinking as if to bid him welcome from within. It feels strange, shoveling the heavy snow from around door to door, some of them poorer in design, icy cold wind howling within the frame and the corridor; others - double-glazed, prepped from the inside with cushions that must feel heavenly when laid down to sleep in, oh what Thomas would give to have a make-shift pillow over the wooden plank used at the boss quarters! It would be so wonderful, and so warm, and cozy enough to…

“The hell you think you get to ogle me flat for?” A voice booms from behind him. “Boy, stop dwindling in there, eh!”

The dreamy smile Thomas has plastered across his face immediately falls.

The lady is tall and broad in shoulders, her fat stomach taking the better part of Thomas’ view as she towers over him, her chalky coat trimmed with white soft fur; two little fox faces look down at Thomas, their eye sockets empty but the rotten black teeth still intact, modeled in a joint sneer forever.

The fur spills across her arms filled with various tokens; a greased bag full of meat and bone, fresh green moss, and scraps of fine leather. There is a big drawing of a festooned tree on the newspaper she has clasped to her breast.

She huffs at Thomas, as he bends onto himself, his cheeks hot and ashamed. He snatches the dirty cap from his head and mutters an out-of-breath greeting into his scarf to the boss’ mistress.

“Make way!” She elbows past him without even a nod of her head, the musky odor of her clothes making Thomas’ head spin.

“We’ll see who makes way for whom…” He looks past her and spits at the street, just beside her heel. The broom trembles as his grip hardens, as the cobblestones echo with her footsteps.



New London Dispatch also here.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1601580/Frostpunk_2/

Fellow Citizens!

The madness begins! Midweek madness, to be precise. Starting now, Frostpunk will be 75% off till Friday, January 21st. The expansions are heavily discounted too, including the Season Pass. So if you haven't decided to get Frostpunk by now, it can be a good timing as it's the biggest discount ever.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/323190/Frostpunk/


We're also launching our new social media platform - TikTok. As a TikTok newbie, for a good start, we're going to drop a few videos informing about current matters. However, in the future, we plan to make short formats with a peek behind the curtain that will introduce to you the people that shape our games, our work style, and everyday life in 11 bit studios HQ. We understand this particular media has - let's say, a specific reputation - however, we intend to create content that is in line with what we do and show you who we are and what makes our games unique rather than aim at not-so-serious clips in seek of viral recognition. You'll see. Anyway, to those of you who use TikTok - let us cordially invite you to the 11 bit channel. Finally, something new is to be posted soon, unveiling bits of the Frostpunk 2 world. So stay tuned!

Jump here if you wish to - nomen omen - add Frostpunk 2 to the wishlist.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1601580/Frostpunk_2/

Have a full view here: 📰
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“Madame! Get yours before it runs out! Oi, fresh news of the city!”

Thomas’ fingers are numb with cold when the snow covers his shoulders. Wet splats of the icy rain mark his shoulder blades and chest - there are many papers yet to be given out, more shrill cries of his not to succumb to the icy weather.

“Oi! Extra! Fresh from print! The Toolbox is here!”

The advertorial issue is heavy in his hands, water bleeding through the paper and his well-worn mittens - Ma made them just for him, to shield him from the icy wind and biting frost. The full press package is carefully wrapped in blankets at Thomas’ side, shielded enough to peek through but away from the destruction of the elements - there’s a clever lever hidden inside that secures an issue to be blemish-free - and yet conveniently within reach for the customer.

“Extra! The Fishermen refuse to budge, the fight for the oil refinery gets bitter after two weeks!“

It’s been hard to count years, days, and hours like the boss does, all awkward numbers and calendar lines, but Thomas is getting the hang of things.

“Oil reserves doubled, spring ought to be safer!” His throat is raw with pain but he shouts, voice echoing down the alleyway. “Coal is not our only option today! Hear ye, hear ye!“


A weathered coalminer swaggers up to Thomas, his eyes briefly scanning the cover with its illustration. He narrows his brow at some of the letterings.

“Sir! The chief scientist asks: Will it get warmer?”

“Gimme two of these.” The man mutters, his voice low.

“Sure thing!” Thomas beams, two neatly pieces of paper right away in his hand. The miner doesn’t look twice at him and goes away, already reading the key headlines.

“Get the newest issue of The Toolbox!”

It is a gloomy, Friday morn, and the young paperboys of the District awaken - but Thomas knows his street corner like the back of his hand, sinewy with carrying package of the papers after package, his body bent awkwardly in the heavy coat but he does have the best spot on the corner - shielded by a lonesome street lantern, further down the cobblestone path than back when he started, three Reindeer Mating Seasons ago.

It gets easier over time, everything gets easier.

Project 8 is one of our upcoming games being developed within Unreal Engine 4 and 5 from Epic Games.



May the temple answer your prayers in the hour of need. 🏛️

With warmest greetings as always,
11 bit studios

Greetings, Citizens.

The wait is over, and the truth is out for everyone to see.




You proved yourself as the Captain of the last City on Earth. Are you ready to become the true Leader humanity needs? Set 30 years after the first game, Frostpunk 2 will take you to new yet undiscovered lows and heights of humanity in their struggle against the endless winter.

With the advancement of oil technology, new hopes arise, but not everyone is greeting the change with open arms. Where will your choices lead YOU and your people this time?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1601580/Frostpunk_2/

Follow our social media channels and #SnowBloodOil to be up to date with all Frostpunk 2 news.

Additionally, to celebrate this massive announcement for us, have fun playing the base Frostpunk game FOR FREE during this approaching weekend, from August 12th 8 AM PST to August 16th 10 AM PST inclusive.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/323190/Frostpunk/

Lastly, to get you prepared for the fight against the cold, read through our newest issue of the New London Courrier.

With the warmest of regards,
11 bit studios

Hello there, Citizens!

We've recently let you know that Frostpunk DLCs are coming to console on July 21st!

Today's the day and all 3 expansions are now live on both Xbox and Playstation!

▶️ Playstation 4
▶️ Xbox One

▶️ Grab it on Steam, too:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/323190/Frostpunk/

Each DLC can be bought separately and within the Season Pass. Frostpunk is also available in a bundled Complete Edition that comes with the base game and all three expansions.





About the DLCs

❄️ The Last Autumn is a turning point within the Frostpunk universe. Revealing the restless events of Site 113 and its struggle to construct the generator before the freezing veil shrouds the Earth, this prequel expansion broadens the Frostpunk universe by introducing a new environment, new Books of Laws, and unique technologies, and presents a range of new buildings — all of which lets you shape society and the city in unconventional ways.

❄️ The Rifts allows you to experience a new level of challenge on a brand new Endless Mode map, where the land itself threatens your survival. Using a new gameplay mechanic, bridge the rifts to access new areas. Expand the city to save your people from the inevitable doom!

❄️ On The Edge tells a story of citizens of New London sent for a special assignment after the Great Storm. Not only does the DLC open a brand new chapter within the Frostpunk universe, but it also pits you against new challenges and offers unique mechanics, both in the city and on the Frostland map - further enriching the core experience of our game.

Looking forward to seeing your new cities flourish (or freeze over)!

Stay warm!

Yours,
11 bit studios

Hear me! Hear me, Citizens!

Great news! We've recently let you know that Frostpunk DLCs are coming to console in Q3 2021!

Today we can finally confirm the date as 21.07.2021!


All expansions will be available from July 21st on Xbox One and PlayStation 4, to be bought separately and within the Season Pass. Frostpunk will also be available in a bundled Complete Edition that comes with the base game and all three expansions.

▶️ Playstation 4
▶️ Xbox One
▶️ Grab it on Steam, too:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/323190/Frostpunk/

[h5]About the DLCs[/h5]



❄️The Rifts allows you to experience a new level of challenge on a brand new Endless Mode map, where the land itself threatens your survival. Using a new gameplay mechanic, bridge the rifts to access new areas. Expand the city to save your people from the inevitable doom!




❄️On The Edge tells a story of citizens of New London sent for a special assignment after the Great Storm. Not only does the DLC open a brand new chapter within the Frostpunk universe, but it also pits you against new challenges and offers unique mechanics, both in the city and on the Frostland map - further enriching the core experience of our game.




❄️The Last Autumn is a turning point within the Frostpunk universe. Revealing the restless events of Site 113 and its struggle to construct the generator before the freezing veil shrouds the Earth, this prequel expansion broadens the Frostpunk universe by introducing a new environment, new Books of Laws, and unique technologies, and presents a range of new buildings — all of which lets you shape society and the city in unconventional ways.

Looking forward to seeing your new cities flourish (or freeze over)!

With (very) warm regards,
11 bit studios