Then On the Edge will tighten the screws. You slowly establish your small settlement and your people will be cheery, your outlook hopeful. The former is where you manage relationships and demands, and the latter is where you keep track of ingoing and outgoing supplies. All you're asked to do in return is extract steel and valuable steam cores from the Army Warehouse and send them the other way, which you do via new Administration and Transport Depot buildings. You are people sent by New London, after all, so it's only right the mothership should feed you.

You can send scouts out to try and find some outside of your settlement but you never know if they will, and even if they do, it will be a one-off. The most pressing concern, and a constant one, will be food, because you have no way to reliably source it. You don't have enough of everything you need to get by. The zoomed-out image has some filters applied but the up-close image doesn't, so you can appreciate all the gorgeous detail. These are taken in the game's Photo mode. You're an offshoot of it, an outpost, established around an Army Warehouse (a new kind of building) where you're to extract materials from it. In fact, you're not even in control of the main settlement, New London, any more. You see, you're not the only people out there. The old pressures are still there but they're rejigged because now, there's something else to contend with: inter-settlement relationships. Then again, would it really be so bad?ДЇrostpunk was thrilling, but in On the Edge, the game's just-released second expansion, Gradually you find yourself down a road you never thought you would be until you're suddenly staring dictatorial rule in the face. Availability: Released 20th August on Steam, GOG and Humble for ВЈ10.29, and should be coming to consoles later this yearДo you want to pass a law enabling child labour? I know you wouldn't normally but look at the situation you're in: children could collect coal, is that really so bad? How about cooking the odd corpse? No one needs to know and you don't have any food.

When you think you've solved one problem, Frostpunk provides another two, and every time it does, it dangles a horrid solution in front of you. Has the temperature dropped and you need better insulation? You'd better hurry up because it definitely isn't getting any warmer. Are you out of food? Do the same for food. Are you running out of coal? Research and improve your coal production. What you build depends on where you're being stretched thinnest. To me, Frostpunk is a game about pressure, it provides the context for everything you do. On the Edge provides a tense new challenge and is the perfect reason to rediscover an exquisite city-building game.

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