As the city of New London expands and coal supplies dwindle, oil is 'expected to be the new salvation of what’s left of humanity.” But not everyone in the new world agrees, and the 30-second trailer uses part of the previous teaser to show how the search for oil can have deadly consequences. It looks like Frostpunk 2 will be less about burning coal and wood and more about burning oil.

Survivors had to band together to search for coal and wood to burn as well as steel to build up industry so that humanity could survive the long winter. The game puts players in control of a post-apocalyptic city that's trying to survive the freezing temperatures brought on by a volcanic winter.

The original Frostpunk was a runaway success for Warsaw-based 11 Bit Studios, selling 1.4 million copies in its first year. As promised in the teaser video from last June, today's announcement reveals one of the three games that 11 Bit is currently working on, and Frostpunk 2 is perhaps the least surprising of them all. The original Frostpunk was well-received: we described it as a 'thrilling but thin survival twist on the city builder genre, oozing dark charisma and political dilemmas' in our Frostpunk review.Frostpunk 2 is on the way, according to developer 11 Bit Studios.

Because ultimately, what can end us is not nature itself - it's human nature.' We still use that post-apocalyptic, frozen setup, to tell a meaningful story about human ambition, societies striving for their ideas, and the consequences of hard decisions which are not always respected by everyone. Frostpunk: Beyond the Ice takes place in an post-apocalyptic world that’s permanently frozen and will be a true scaled-down version of the original 2018 PC and Console version. 'But this time the inner turmoils, sparked by rising social differences, mean that players will be facing new kinds of threats that are beyond the bare survival from the first game. 'Frostpunk 2 is still a game about the City and its society,' said co-director and design director Jakub Stokalski. You can certainly see that in the new story trailer, above. And once they feel like they've tamed the frost, and the bonding survival instinct has faded, their human nature will come into play, driven by ambition that could spiral The City into the fall.' Reads the press release: 'Most notably, however, people changed. The sequel will be set 30 years after the original, with years of whiteouts giving the world a clean slate just as The City grew and progressed. The year 2024 was correct at least, but we'll have to wait for a more specific date. That said, a release date for the game leaked on SteamDB last year, listing the game as 2nd January 2024.ġ1 bit studios disputed the leak at the time, with a jokey 'liars shall be punished' message on Twitter. Watch on YouTube Frostpunk 2 | The City Must Not Fall Trailer

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