Frostpunk

All that glisters is very cold.

- Ian Evenden

ALT-HISTORY STEAMPUNK city building? We’re there. Prospective metropolitan planners should beware, however, because Frostpunk isn’t quite the chilly Sim City it might at first appear to be.

For a start, there’s that name. It tells us nothing, apart from that things are frosty. The story goes that, in the 1800s, Earth froze over. One group of survivors set out from London, UK, and established a new city, huddled around a coal-fired heat generator, inside the sheltering walls of a crater. This didn’t stop the temperature regularly falling to -40 C, nor constant snowfall building up on the roofs.