Finished the story, played some of utopia mode, of course I intend to spend a couple hundred hours more in this game (at least). All of the reviews everywhere emphasize that this is a different game compared to Frostpunk so I'm not going to get into that but I absolutely loved the changes. I know some people hate it because somehow they expected that the sequel will be more-of-the-same-ol'-Frostpunk (HOW? There were beta gameplay videos everywhere…). The way I see it, now I have two excellent games to play, set in the same amazing post-apocalyptic universe. I don't have any actual review of the game. It's beautiful, it's full of nice little details and references, you have to make hard choices, you're constantly so pissed at your population that you can EASILY justify making fascist choices. And then take a step back and realize what you did. The city did not fall. But was it worth it?

Extreme Conditions + True Viking was brutal and I had to restart 10 times at least, but finally made it… Only 3 achievements remain which I'll probably come back to in 2 more years or so.

I finally did it - got all the achievements before Frostpunk 2 is released, and it was one hell of a journey. This game will forever stay in my heart & mind as one of my favorite games and a comforting place to visit when everything else fails to keep my interest (or when it's way too hot or too cold outside). Can't wait for the sequel, I'm sure I'll barely get any sleep that weekend and will scream at my monitor in desperation once again.

Clear improvements from the first game, which I already loved. This is still in Early Access, only 3 chapters available, and I completely devoured them in 2 days and wish there was more. Can't wait for the full release.

I tried to explain my friends what kind of game this is and failed utterly. Is it an adventure game? Simulation? Management? It's all of that, but also not really what you would expect when you hear those genres… I know it was very fun AND funny, and I now know more types of fish than ever before. I do have to say sometimes during the story there seemed to be too much to do, and after the story - too little to do, but I had my fun nonetheless.

Although after the first playthrough I thought more highly of this game, I have to say that after multiple playthroughs of all life paths I got slightly disappointed. It is great how some earlier choices carry over to the future or how certain actions are blocked due to skills being too low, however essentially that means min-maxing the stats instead of choosing what feels right for that specific version of Sir Brante. In terms of the story, it is well made - the worldbuilding is great, the issues make sense, some things will happen in the world despite of your actions and you can't affect it. However, in some life paths the culmination of the story - the Revolt - doesn't make sense, and it doesn't help that this final chapter is the worst story-wise (IMO). I also hated that most of the time you can't tell your family to fuck off with their stupid issues I couldn't care less about. So, solid "Acceptable" rating, enjoyable first playthrough, before you understand the game well and see it for what it is.

Right, I am not very good at horror games, most are too spooky for me, including this one. I couldn't bring myself to move past couple of steps in this game knowing it's an insanity game with a shitton of jump scares. Nope, I'm too scared, bye.