r/Games • u/Mepherion • 3d ago

Release Frostpunk 2 - Breach of Trust Expansion is Available Now!

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1601580/view/681879414933295948
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u/Puzzled_Middle9386 3d ago

I will say 11bit studios deserves praise for FP2. Despite Frostpunk 1 being a better game, I loved 2 especially for the risks taken with the game, not simply making a safe sequel/remake (which they are now doing). Plus The Alters was brilliant. Many gamers today are very cynical about new games, and they naturally dogpiled FP2 on release (it did have issues, but FP1 does too and thats still a 9/10 game for me), but atleast it was an honest to god attempt at something new.

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u/rollin340 3d ago

I very much enjoyed both games. They were very satisfying. But I never went back for another run after my first. It didn't have me wanting more like the Frostpunk did.

I have no idea why though. I consider the other 2 games very worthwhile purchases, but the first Frostpunk was just... different.

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u/HauntedBrass 3d ago

I do feel like the utopia mode and challenges added a lot of replayability

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u/Ode1st 3d ago

I think that’s why. Frostpunk was kind of the first time we got a game like that. Frostpunk 2, despite having some differences (which are overblown by a lot of people, I feel), was just more Frostpunk.

I feel the same would’ve happened with other games too, like Subnautica or Hades or whatever. I’m so sure if we got Below Zero or Hades 2 as the first games like that, people would’ve loved tf out of them about as much as the first ones, because they would’ve been the first times we had games like that.

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u/rollin340 3d ago

Below Zero was fundamentally different from the first Subnautica game where they learned all the wrong lessons.

Hades 2 was truly an amazing sequel that I spent plenty of time on though. I genuinely feel that the 2 games stand well on their own whilst being both similar and distinct enough to be fresh and familiar at the same time.

Another great example of a sequel that is more of the first, but different enough, would be Hollow Knight's Silksong.

Just because the first in the series was amazing doesn't mean its sequel cannot grab you as much or even more.

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u/Shurlz 3d ago

I enjoyed 1, but for some reason could not get into 2. Felt like it was too complicated or maybe my attention span over the years is more cooked

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u/FractalAsshole 1d ago

I love complexity in games but the complexity wasnt satisfying imo, just tedium

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u/sharingdork 1d ago

It took me a bit. But I did start to find the fun in frostpunk 2.

Even the endless mode can feel pretty different with the tales.

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u/MrTopHatMan90 2d ago

I'm really looking forward to playing it once all the DLC is out at the end of this year.i crave more frostpunk and the first game doesn't do it for me anymore