Recent reviews by Lord_Dabington

I was originally going to make a big post about this, but to perfectly sum up my experience: it was like a time capsule full of guns and memes.

Game is cheap, fun, has a lot of love behind it, and some based devs.

11/100, needs moar memes. Buy it now.

Is the game hard? Yes. Also no. The most that the difficulties do is change up enemy behaviours. They also will hide and flank more on harder difficulties, forcing you to think about every action.
I struggled a bit on Captain (second hardest difficulty), but I turned it down by one difficulty about four chapters in because enemies would have scripted ambushes once already spawned ones saw you. They blow their way through locked doors, then rush to the player's location to swarm you. I still struggled, but persevered and continued on to finish the game.

Overall, I'd say if you love boomer shooters or want a fun game with a challenge that gets tougher each chapter, pick up Selaco. The devs really seem to care about their game. I highly recommend it.

I'll start this off by saying I am a massive scrub and prefer my easy, baby-mode, journalist levels of difficulty. I suck at a lot of games.
Frostpunk had me banging my head off my desk thinking I was incredibly stupid to a point where I simply wasn't up to snuff for this game. I even put the difficulty to easy and was doing fine until up to a certain point when the last surviving member of a city comes to town in a cutscene. The survivor tells everyone that the city froze over, everyone died and there may be no more people left.

Everyone loses it and your morale plummets.

This event always happens and is hard coded into the game. Progress can stagnate due to having to harvest all your resources and spend them on tech and building advancements while also dealing with an angry mob threatening to take the majority of the population away. You are then given a choice between appeasing them through faith or through law.
The game wants you to play a specific method of rapid advancement while also dealing with people cropping up every five minutes to complain about something.
If you manage to bring the populace to heel through religious conversion or forcefully arresting those trying to leave, another big event comes when a big freeze is triggered that will then state a huge blizzard is approaching and will freeze your town unless you have advanced to a high level of technology at this point wherein you have a large heat radius from your main generator and can sustain your people with a massive stockpile of food and resources. If not, game over. And this may well mean having to begin all over again in the hopes you get it right this time. Because whatever method you wanted to use isn't what the game wants you to us.

Maybe it's because I'm bad at games, maybe it's because I don't fully grasp the concept of Frostpunk, I don't know. If you want to buy this game, just know that you'll need to play it the way the GAME wants you to play it, not how YOU want to.