Frostpunk: The Board Game

After 5 plays (all solo) I am a big fan of the video game and also play a lot of board games: I love the board game version even more (my rating could go up after more plays and plays with friends). I enjoyed every minute of playing so far - even of the first game when I learned the rules and it took a long time finishing in a loss. It is challenging and I lost my first 3 tries, but I always had the feeling of progress and felt like I have a chance to beat the scenario. I can totally see someone not liking the game for the many „maintenance“- parts of the game and you should definitely know what your getting into before buying the game. (For me all these different phases did make it very true to the video game)

Finally the whole team at Glass Canon Unplugged and also at Frosted Games did a great job. Thank you for making this game.

February 2023 (Kickstarter)

Played 3 times solo and 3 times with friends. Won only one of those sessions (solo), cuz this game is HARD!

But I Love it! Stellar match of worker placement, resource management and city building mapped to a theme, PLUS excellent narrative story telling through difficult decisions with meaningful consequences.

I was worried about complexity and managing all the tracks. Turns out not to be a problem, because the mechanisms are so closely tied to theme in every instance, so it's easy to remember rules, and every management decision is meaningful, not just tracking stuff.

My only concern is game length. My initial plays of the introductory scenario took about 3-4 hours solo. One of my group sessions took 3 hours for only a half game (because we lost at Round 6) so this is an epic game for sure.

Hoping that time would come down with familiarity, and/or that they introduce some shorter scenarios. Right now, it's on par with longer games like Nemesis, but if you want that experience it can't be beat.

Es una pasada. Tiene tanta variación de partida a partida que no creo que me canse nunca del juego

A very good game, complete with no glitches. Explore, build, manage and hope for no rebellion. I like it!

Played intro scenario on TTS - did not gel with me at all. Far too mechanically heavy for the decision space available. You have 9 phases, you're moving tokens all over the shop and then when it comes to make decisions you generally have X things you want to do and X-2 or so actions to do, so your decisions mostly boil down to what do you not want to do.

Very solitaire too, other people would just serve to help the flow during the many upkeep phases.

It did definitely capture the video game well, but honestly I'd rather play that.

Maybe with a proper rulebook it would be OK and I'd play again, but right now it is absolutely not for me.