Good evening you are listening to Thruis Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakeney.

Join me this evening.

We welcome back our friend once again, PC gamers, tabletop gaming correspondent, John Bolding.

Howdy, howdy.

And we also welcome game developer and critic and maybe monster, Zolivir Nelson.

Hello, everyone.

So the reason I mentioned that Zolivir might be a monster is because we are talking about

a city management survival game that kind of maybe prods you in the direction of turning into

arguably a monster or maybe just somebody who puts humanity aside and looks at the bottom line.

We're talking about 11-bit Studios Frost Punk, a sort of post-apocalyptic Ice Age city survival game.

And Zolivir, I wanted to start with you because your review in Rock Paper Shotgun was particularly striking, but also engaged with a lot of the really, like, brutal and harsh tradeoffs that sort of defined frostpunk.

Do you want to set the stage for us a little bit as to what Frost Punk is, what the setup is,

and what the like day-to-day management looks like before you start getting to the real crunch time

decisions?

Sure. The best way I'd sum up Frostpunk is that everything is a crunch time

decision. And it's brilliant in that respect because usually I'll be up front. I'm not really a city

builder type. I get about five, ten hours into a city and then I realize, oh God, no one has plumbing

and electricity is borked.

And oh gosh, are people homeless? Have they just been walking around this entire time?

And I just see these a thousand little issues piling up and I decided I'm going to do better next time and I don't do better next time.

But Frostpunk, its entire schick is that it's this steampunk survival game where

all of your issues can be summed up and blamed against a single enemy, which is the cold.

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