Frostpunk

Have you ever wanted a game that makes you despise the human condition? Then Frostpunk is the game for you! Frostpunk is a crisis management simulator masquerading as a city builder that makes you slowly become more cruel and ruthless in the name of saving a desolate city lost in a winter hellscape. Every choice in the game comes with a cost that can put your city at risk. If morale falls too low, then your ousted as leader and left to die in the snow. The game has a wonderful moral testing system, of where you feel like a villain doing the right thing, while feeling like a hero doing the wrong one. The game constantly makes you feel like your on the brink of collapse, just barely hanging on and surviving. Once you get things moving at a somewhat respectable pace, you can rest assured that the game will come in and ruin things for you quite fast.

Frostpunk deviates from traditional city builders in a unique way – it ends. For fans of the genre, that’s baffling, but yes it does have an endgame scenario. After that, you won or lost and that’s that. A bold statement that, while I personally like the design and the story works around it well, others may not find the same kind of joy in it.

In conclusion, this game is great for making you force hard decisions. If you immerse yourself into the role, then it helps even more to make you really think of what decisions you would make being in such a hard role.