Frostpunk is a post-apocalyptic and dystopian RTS (Real Time Srategy) game in which the player assumes the role of a overseer tasked with keeping a small community surviving in a world now completely frozen.
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- Hill, Mark. "Indie City-Building Games Finally Reckon With Climate Change", in: WIRED Magazine [online], January 6, 2022. https://www.wired.com/story/city-builder-games-climate-change/
- Alfonsin, B. (2022) "College student's perceptions of online learning during the pandemic, and Frostpunk, the apocalypse, and the “enduring temptation” of ecofascism." Texas Tech University Libraries (MA thesis). https://hdl.handle.net/2346/89202
- Savaş, S. (2020) An Analysis of Survival Games in Terms of Biopolitics: Frostpunk - doi: https://doi.org/10.26650/4boyut.2022.001
Frostpunk places constant moral choices on the player that can have significant consequences on the community they must manage. These also include choices about child labour, the city’s health system, the resources to be used and, of course, the temperature of the facilities.