Frostpunk 2 is coming to Game Pass on Day 1

Launching on PC in the first half of 2024, later on consoles

Marco Wutz | Jan 16, 2024

Frostpunk 2 is coming to Game Pass on Day 1 /

Polish developer 11 bit studios has released a gameplay trailer for Frostpunk 2, showing off how the sequel is changing things up compared to the original survival city-builder. Furthermore it has been announced that Frostpunk 2 will be released in the first half of 2024 for PC with the console version coming to PS5 and Xbox Series X|S at a later date.

Frostpunk 2 will be available for subscribers to PC Game Pass and Xbox Game Pass as soon as it has been released on the respective platforms – another big get for Microsoft.

You can watch the new Frostpunk 2 gameplay trailer below:

Where the original Frostpunk had you manage a single group of survivors on a micro level, the sequel gives you responsibility for a growing metropolis. You build entire districts at once and command a growing number of resources. But as soon as survival is no longer everybody’s daily top priority, human nature starts to crawl back to stir up trouble – different people want to see society head into different directions. It’ll be up to you to unite the people behind a common policy and keep things peaceful – or crush any dissent by force.

You can read more about Frostpunk 2 in our preview from gamescom 2023, which dives deep into the systems the sequel has to offer. It’s just as dystopian and dark as the original game, but upgrades the scale of everything that’s happening.

You can also sign-up to test an upcoming Frostpunk mobile game this year, which will bring the dark city-builder into your pocket.

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Published Jan 16, 2024

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg