Microsoft has snapped up 11 bit studios’ promising city-builder sequel Frostpunk 2 as a day-one PC Game Pass title.
Frostpunk 2, which for a while now has been one of the most wishlisted video games on Steam alongside the likes of Hades 2, Manor Lords, and Hole Knight: Silksong, launches on PC by way of Steam, Epic Games Retailer, and GOG, in the first half of 2024.
Then, Frostpunk 2 launches later on console, with the recreation hitting Xbox Game Pass as quickly as the Xbox Sequence X and S model comes out. A PlayStation 5 launch can be in the works. We have been informed “additional Game Pass additions from 11 bit studios portfolio are set to be unveiled at a later date”.
“As a Steward in Frostpunk 2, you’ll oversee an ever-growing metropolis and be required to fastidiously weigh the wants and calls for of its society,” reads the official blurb. “Your individuals are involved with the destiny of their kids and crimes on the streets. They complain about unhealthy squalor, escalated by industrial progress, however want locations to work. And what for those who can not afford to reward their toil with meals and shelter or take care of their well being? You’ll be able to’t please everybody and when radical factions begin rising, it solely takes a tiny spark for the boiling rigidity to explode.
“30 years after the Nice Storm, the tyranny has ended. The delegates can vote, with or with out sure persuasions, to cross legal guidelines to meet individuals’s will and steer the complete Metropolis into one of many futures.
“All this with a mantra echoing in everybody’s minds: The Metropolis should not fall. However will you be the one to persist and witness its triumph?”
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