Good evening you are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm our host Rob Zakeney here once again with our friend, writer and critic, Cam Gunzleman.

Hello, thank you for having me.

Today we're also joined by Katakus, Ethan Gatch.

Hello, thank you so much for having me on.

Today we're returning to the world of Frostpunk, uh, a name whose ridiculousness

really didn't dawn on me, dawn on me until this exact moment. The day, the game is called

Frost Punk. What a wild thing. Uh, and specifically, we are returning, we are returning to it

via the prequel DLC that came out this past winter, the last autumn. It's a D.L.C.

expansion that kind of reimagines what Frostpunk even is as it tells the story of how those

generators and those sort of salvation cities were created that we sort of governed and mismanaged and turned towards fascism in the

core game so even can you tell us a little bit about what the last autumn is this is this going

to be very familiar to people who played frostpunk yeah so it's interesting it. It takes the basic building blocks and sort of decision-making processes of the original game,

but it gives you not just like a new location that's more temperate and forgiving than the Arctic deep freeze of the base game.

But it gives you a new sort of rock and a hard place

that you're trying to navigate.

So instead of trying to keep this generator cooking

so that nobody freezes to death,

you're actually trying to build it.

And what that ends up, and because you're building it on this island you don't have

access to the same sorts of resources so you're reliant on a port from the mainland empire to deliver

a lot of the stuff you need to do it so you're you're kind of more managing timetables and

productive capacity than doing blanket survival.

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