Cool Look at a Brutal Game | Bricky Frostpunk Review 

The moment the blizzard comes in and you hear music, that's when the boss battle starts. The temperature falls below -100°C, people getting sick by the droves, people start dying due to the sheer freezing cold, no one can go outside, your generator is being driven far beyond its limits and could shut down at any moment, and you sit there in the comfort of your own home....watching and hoping the city won't fall. The City Must Survive.

23:36 Not a reference, He's zooming in on the oncoming storm. It is a storm... That is approaching.

_"So pray to you God or your Foreman._ _That the sun might rise in the morning._ _The told us Hell was warm, but our Empire fell for shelter from the storm."_ ---- _"Burn the incenses of our innocence and in a sense we thrive; so take heed, but take no pity, as the city must survive."_

You are completely able to not choose a single law

"Graveyards give Hope?" When the alternative is tossing them in the generator as spare fuel? Apparently.

CITIZEN, NOW YOU BY LAW COMPELED TO WATCH "The Last Autumn" BY BRICKY! WARNING: FAILURE TO DO SO WILL RESULTS IN REDUCED RATIONS! THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME, AND REMEMBER: If that sun won't rise on our horizon, We'll march on to spite the skies!

A cemetary increases hope because you do not leave the bodies to rot.

Frostpunk 2 is going to release soon!

The cemetary gives hope because you're clearing corpses and treating them with respect. You can also choose to turn corpses into fertilizer if food is more important than hope.

"fun" fact: -40° is the only temperatiure, which matches in C and F... its still waaaaay too cold x_X edit: 18:50 - GODDAMNIT, i almost choked on my coffee from this one xD 23:30 - so he really gave the scouts Vergils theme (DMC)

Heave, lads! Ho, lads! Forget the comforts of home, you're a nomad We've lost so much since we first started Are our hearts cold or are we coldhearted? So pray to your lord or your foreman That the Sun might rise in the morning They told us hell was warm But our empire fell for shelter from the storm

The music of the game really sells the "I will make the city survive! ... no matter the cost."-vibe

The cemetary increases hope becauses the alternative is throwing the bodies into the snow outside.

I will be looking forward to the Frostpunk stream, as it's one of my favorite games

Honestly would love to see a reaction on the follow-up video covering The Last Autumn.

The black clouds and icy winds rush over head. As the CO2 in the air freezes solid before falling in veins into the generator's range and immediately vaporizing. The Captain stands on the railing of the Generator as it whines and creeks from the overclocking. Looking in horror as the liquid in the thermometers has frozen solid and it's still getting colder. Mean while you're looking in a near panic as the Generator's stress level slowly ticks up counting the seconds as the storm rages. While "The city must survive" plays in the background.

The game is not just polished - it is Polished ;)

The robots are base game

Bit of a in-game thing but this game can get VERY dark & depressing & hopeless very quickly. It's also very unforgiving if you make a mistake & I can vouch for it since I played this game a long time ago. Also this game was released 6 years ago. Heat & Coal are the MOST important things in this game then research then other resources homes are then the next important thing, no homes means people die fast & they die quickly & have a higher chance for limb loss which means they become useless until you research prosthetics which is a mid/late game research & is quite pricey at that time if you don't have the resources.

“How cold is that?” Hahaha, YES 🥶!!!

He made a vid about the last autumn as well! It's incredible!

A sequel is coming soon

cant wait for you to watch his other frostpunk video as well

Cemetary increases hope in the sense that corpse lying and rotting about everywhere in the city or a ditch are not the thing inspiring hope for survival.

You need to watch brickys second frostpunk video.

That is really one amazing game you stumbled on right here. Frostpunk 1 (and soon 2) is great on its own but it also has good video content on it like in-depth nerdcore songs by Danbull and The Stupendium (who are both very welcoming to reactions), well edited meme-ish videos and a couple truly profound analyses delving into this cold doomed world.

This game is amazing! The music, the setting, the Choices! He didn't cover the random occurrences that happen all the time too, like people stealing rations, some brave folk saving other people, the settlers that come to your city for help, a TON of things happen

Not realizing bricky plays warhammer is hilarious since his largest videos are his videos covering the factions of warhammer XD.

Unironically, when you say that you are bad at City builders, then Fortpunk is perfect for you. The reality is, Forstpunk excels at putting you against though moral choices. Many choices do however relate to being Immoral or losing recourses that can lead to suffering down the line. So if you are good at city builders/resource management games, these choice can become trivial. So in my opinion, being bad at City builders will make Frostpunk more enjoyable.

25:00: Seed arcs are a real thing, actually, aimed at preserving biodiversity especially among agriculturally important plants. The biggest one today is on the norwegian island of Svalbard. It's a gigantic underground vault that cost the norwegian government like 9 million dollars to build, and it now preserves seed samples for *over a million* distinct plant types and genetic variations, and basically welcomes anyone who wants to store more samples of their own there to do so at no cost. The whole site is at this point basically humanity's final insurance policy against any variety of apocalyptic events driving important plant types into extinction.

1:12: Well, to answer that? -89.2°C is the coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth. This happened in 1912 at Vostok Station, Antarctica. Though to be fair, the temperature gauge in Frostpunk IIRC includes wind chill and shows temperature above the crater rim. Fall of WInterhome is kinda genius in that it is a city-builder IN REVERSE. Simply put, you start out with big, but completely fucked up city. You start fixing it, but then you find out that the generator got fucked up during the short civil war. IRREPERABLY fucked up. The generator is failing. It's getting worse. You're on the clock to it giving up the ghost entirely and the city freezing to death. You cannot stop it, only slow it down at best. So the entire scenario changes: You're building an evacuation convoy. You load it up with as many people, supplies, materials etc. as you can, all while things get worse and worse as the generator starts tearing itself apart. In the end, you start cannibalising your own city. Those houses the generator can't reach anymore? The empty factories, the unmanned buildings etc. that you don't have a workforce for anymore because you already sent them to the evac site? Tear 'em down, more wood and steel to load up on the convoy. Your city is collapsing, and all that's left for you is to save whatever resources you can. And there won't be enough places on that evac convoy for everyone...

I picked it up in cheap bundle (before it was available for free) because I'd heard a lot of good things, but haven't got around to it. Stupendium's Frostpunk song's great though.

You absolutely should watch his The Last Autumn video. It’s a great followup to this Frostpunk video :)

For frame of reference, ABSOLUTE ZERO is something like -200 to -300 centigrade I think.

Now you need to see the second part for The Last Autumn

For context, I believe the coldest recorded natural temperature on earth is around -90C or -130F.

11 Bit Studios really should make a game in the opposite route. Instead of ice and cold make it about heat and lack of enough water.

18:27 Me looking at the nine videos of him reacting to Bricky talking about Warhammer: ???

Even though there is a win condition you don't win frostpunk you survive frostpunk

I would recommend watching his reviews on the dlc and other scenarios of frostpunk…because this isn’t the worst of it.

You might want to hold off on getting Frostpunk and instead wait a bit for when Frostpunk 2 releases in Juli 25 of this year. Or do get it and play the second aswell when it comes out it's a great game.

Will you watch "The Last Autum" video? 17:05 While the direction itself is forced by the plot, individual laws are not. You can stop signing them at any time.

What he meant by "another depressing Polish game" is that 11-Bit Studios also made the award-winning war civilian survival simulator, This War Of Mine.

You don’t have to complete the Purpose tree unless you’re running a villain playthrough. You don’t have to be a tyrant.

While both Faith and Order are ultimately authoritarian extremists at their higher ends, they are different in *how* they prioritize managing the City. Faith distributes warm food away from the generators (ie, they can be used as cheaper steam hubs) and allow you to create a worse version of infirmaries which use any citizens instead of only engineers and don't require a steam core to build. Basically, it's a build to use when you need to conserve resources and skilled labor. Order, however, focuses on raw efficiency. Its buildings are smaller, so they're easier to plan around, and you receive a number of powers that lets you boost productivity.

Frostpunk. Easily one of my favorite games of all times. I'm really bad at it, but I love the atmosphere, the world, and the pressure all the same.

As Bricky said you are trying to sustain the city and after certain event, you start to think the last city. Then after some time when you think maybe you have it, the Storm is detected, which is approaching. You on a death clocks now and you need as many food, coal and enough research to withstand it, then some dude ask you some of food because his daughter somehow left the city and he goes out to seek her. And when Storm is here, it becomes 100 then 110 degrees cold, sickness skyrockets, your generator has to work on maximum. And then finale, 120 degrees, nothing but hospitals and automatons work, you have to overdrive generator, it goes critical, you have to send a child inside and with threat of his life throw a dice if he able to prolong generator`s life because if you turn off generator`s overdrive everyone will start to die in a blink of an eye and if generator blows up you lose. And now all you can is hope what ends faster, your generator`s durability or the Storm with a final part main theme which will increase your tension stronger then a car accident

Jon Solo is a good RU-vid channel highly recommended and won’t affect your wallet at all

What's that music Bricky uses in the introduction? I've tried to find it and I can't

Airier, good news. Frost Punk has periodic sales. I got mine under $20, so wait, and you'd be fine. The bad news is that Frost Punk's sequel is due to be released this year. Yeah, no break for you.

Cool. I see what you did there there Airier ;)

This game is a masterclass in how to make a epic drama Mother nature is unleashed in a frozen hellscape and the end of the main story gets absolutely insane, this little city builder gave me more fight for survival than any survival game i have ever played, it gave me trauma, anxiety and tears and i loved every single second of these few hours in hell I dont generally like SteamPunk genre but this is more than simple SteamPunk and i was a fan instantly On my Steam review i gave it "flawless 10/10" on Story, Music and Visuals and an excellent 9.5/10 on Gameplay, it is absolutely one of the highest scoring games i have ever reviewed :D I dont know what my expectations actually are for FrostPunk 2 but in no way shape or form do i expect FrostPunk 2 to be able to outscore the first one on Storytelling, its the kind of thing that you only manage to make once

Airier: *in a frostpunk video* "I have literally no chill" (33:15) Me: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! *shakes fist*

When markplier streamed some time ago and accidentally created a soup cult with chat choosing the laws 😂

Would recommend the Last Autumn video.

FINALLY Frostpuk is one of the best games of all time, no joke, this video was a long time coming.

2:45 You know how history kinda defines how the nation sees itself? Like how am3rica is essencialy any 1980's action movie? Well... history of poland is centuries constantly dealing with greatest natural disasters know to man: Neighbours. When the goverment is disolved, there is widespread famine & anarchy and all the buildings got few hubdred feet shorter... it's called tuesday

you should watch his video on the DLC

The game is on sale, today till May 6th, for $5.99 or $8.56 with DLC. Get it.

Icarus, Frostpunk, Ixion and similar are games that are so close to perfect one desperately wishes for an AI capable of 'touching them up' just so. More games of this sort are only made because the ideal has not yet been managed the normal way.

You will have to pick Faith or Order at some point, but you don't have to go as far as religious police, public penance, etc. But when you're struggling to prepare for the Great Storm, you'll think about it. To me, the way you win the game is not just surviving. It's surviving without going too far

Its better than a regular indi game Its a game from poland

frostpunk 2 is playable now .....enjoy the first one like i did

You reallly should watch his Last autume reivew! He sets it up sp perfectly, it really complements this video! Edit: Before i click off this video, you should try Frostpunk! I dont care for city builders, but this one stands out as the outlier, I also recommend reacting to the trailers, they dont tell you much about the gameplay per say, but let you get "the vibe" for what your in for!

This game is awesome. I have hours in this. The opening animation of the scenarios do a great explanation of things. Wait until Frostpunk 2 comes out later this year. Even the music is worth a buy.

The only city builder (I know of) that has a boss music.

the fact that the game on Steam cost about $30 is really a good worth buying

For the record, the original Cities Skylines came out before Frostpunk. You're thinking of the sequel.

if you genuinely did not know Bricky did Warhammer...I learned about him through warhammer. his wh videos. moderately hilarious. :)

you can build the robots in most scenarios including the 1st one. the game can be won but the question it asks of you is how far you are willing to go to ensure its survival. will you forfeit your humanity or hold on to it. A huge storm will hit in all scenarios and you have to prepare for it. each scenario will throw a curve ball at you to test your humanity. The temperatures will constantly decrease with a slow return to warm before decreasing further. it is up to you to beat the current challenges while preparing for future ones. scenario one has faith and order where they differ in faith being more passive while order requires active stuff like an RPG. the ark asks you if you are willing to allow another city to die to ensure your survival and so on. I can`t recommend this game enough.

Ah yes.. an epilog.. the Frostpunk 2 :D

Its polish game. The dominant feeling that it want from you is depression. Scouts dont need the thing that people in city need. But winning without them is imposible so they are balanced. For example they can die depend on your choices.

27:24 Guys, I think Ramshackle is having side effects.

really hope you do his video on last autumn

There is a Stupendium song about this game you need to check out. There are also probably going to be 50 or so other comments bringing this up, but it's good enough that I'm saying it anyway.

Also it is on 80% off sale now :D till May 6

19:01 pre-watch his channel?

The epilogue would be the sequel they are working on

Don't forget the Last Autumn 🍂 video

23:30 that is the storm that is approaching

26:06 : And never was, neither Marie Antoinette not anyone. That was an anecdote that Jean Jacque Rousseau made up.

Watch his followup video on the Last Autumn DLC!

You should check out his video on the Frostpunk expansion "The Last Autumn" It is extremely good!

Last Autumn video reaction when? :D

9:20 well cemetary vs let the body rot in their home. or in this case freeze in their home.

I have thw board game...bi always wanted to play multiplayer frostpunk. For how cold it gets in the game the atmosphere would be freezing and raining down. Having experienced negative 35ish as actual pain i cant imagibe that kind of cold

16 minutes in. He didn't cut the cough out. 😢

a chematary gives people the hope that their body will be buried so they living Family can come and talk to them.

Still cant stop giggling after hearing "polished" knowing that game was made by...polish people

Fun fact, the composer for Frostpunk is the same who worked on Witcher 3 Blood and Wine. Piotr Musiał

It's a really good game and a lot of fun but also verse intense despite you being able to literally stop time 😅 Also yes the last autumn is really good as well and has a bit more twist than the other scenarios. The others are all the main with a twist but the overall same mechanics while the last autumn has different mechanics and problems to throw in your way.

Don't beat yourself over it. Just wait for a good discount and you are gonna have a good time.

3:15 gets confused about Angry British. Sir, Airier, WarHammer Orks. That’s why it’s bad.

Great episode.

just so you know, this game is included on xbox game pass for pc

A comment for the nightmare beast called Algorithm!

i got this game when it came out. It is super fun and i have lost hours to it.

YES!!!!!!! Next the DLC vid please.

You gotta check out Bricky’s Warhammer Content. He’s very famous for it

Do it, become a Frostpunk