The entire game oozes atmosphere and combined with the terrible choices one must choose between, creates a true sense of despair. It’s a constant battle for survival and the temperature in the main scenario will keep dropping to terrifyingly low levels. Better buildings can have more insulation and so retain more heat passively but this too needs research and increased building costs in terms of wood and steel. You can also build steam hobs to create smaller heat zones or turn on heaters in individual work buildings and of course all this uses coal as well.
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The heat zone around the central generator can be expanded through research and its running temperature increased, but this also greatly increases its coal consumption rate.
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Citizens get sick and will eventually die if they are too cold so a huge part of this game is to figure out how to keep them warm efficiently. The generator as the source of heat is the center of the city and so everything else is laid out around it in a radial grid. So it’s a classic city builder game, except that the need for warmth informs everything that you do.
You’ll have to set policies and decide on trade-offs to keep your people contented and feeling hopeful. At the same time, there are quest arcs as you send out explorers to search the frozen waste around you for more survivors and resources and your people will constantly bring problems or proposals to your attention. So huddled around it for warmth, you build tents to house your population, gather coal to feed the generator, chop trees and mine iron for construction, research better technologies, gather food and so forth. The main scenario deals with one last effort on the part of civilization to build the last human city around a coal-powered generator. Set in the late 19th century, the world is, for reasons that are unclear and not really relevant, slowly freezing to death.
Yet it’s undeniably a great idea for a premise and all of the game’s mechanics are built around it. It’s honestly more than a bit anachronistic since we’re currently worried about global warming yet this game is all about the world freezing to death. I doubt that I would ever have bought this on my own but it had really good word of mouth on Broken Forum and just fantastic worldbuilding.
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