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SimulationStrategyCity BuilderSurvivalResource ManagementPost-apocalypticSteampunk

Frostpunk

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Developer
11 bit studios
Publisher
11 bit studios
Franchise
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Release date
Apr 24, 2018
Store page updated
Jul 24, 2026
Price
−80% $29.99 $5.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

86.3/ 100

Based on 425 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 😄 Very Positive 93% of 415
All time 😄 Very Positive 93% of 137,437
“brutal and stressful but nothing like the fun of managing crisis, grinding achievements like madman”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+1.85
Difficulty +1.83 · How hard it is, how the challenge ramps, and whether it feels fair
“challenging survival decisions and tense resource management overcome” (30)
我们熬过来了！！ 没看攻略17h才通关了一次新家剧情，被废黜了没有十次也有八次。小心谨慎举步维艰的做每一个决策，每一天都过的如履薄冰，没有雇佣童工，没有开妓院也没让刁民加过几次班，虽然病死冻死了很多人但是我真的尽力了。 最后的关头煤要用完了，囤的食物也要耗尽了，开着过载的能量塔陷入绝望，但是第二天暴风雪过去了，我们熬过来了！ 永远忘不了当时的心情

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Story & World
+3.30
World +4.01 · Lore, atmosphere, and how immersive the setting is
“zen garden atmosphere provides peace and order in chaos” (100)

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Content Volume
+0.82
Replayability +0.43 · Reasons to play again — runs, randomness, New Game+

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Visuals & Sound
+3.99
Audio +4.27 · Music, sound effects, and voice acting

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Multiplayer
-0.33

Not enough data — only 1% of reviews mention this.

Community -3.00 · Who you play with — how many, and how friendly

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Pricing & Fairness
-0.12

Not enough data — only 7% of reviews mention this.

Pricing +2.00 · Whether the price, DLC and microtransactions are reasonable, and how much paying gives you an edge

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Tech & Support
-1.75

Not enough data — only 7% of reviews mention this.

Performance -1.61 · Frame rate, optimization, and loading times

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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update DLC
80%85%90%95%100%
Apr 2018Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 413 reviews, peak 23/day
02550
Aug 21Sep 18

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 419 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English27%
  • Chinese24%
  • Russian21%
  • Portuguese8%
  • Spanish5%
  • Korean4%
  • Other11%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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