{"id":518220,"date":"2026-04-07T20:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/518220\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T20:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:17:08","slug":"frostpunk-series-major-sales-milestone-and-dlc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/518220\/","title":{"rendered":"Frostpunk series major sales milestone and DLC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Frozen city building survival series Frostpunk<\/a> has passed an impressive milestone, creator 11 Bit Studios has announced – 11 million sales (how appropriate). That’s across 2018’s Frostpunk and its 2024 sequel Frostpunk 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Seeing 11m brave the frost: it’s just unreal,” said Frostpunk 2 game director &Lstrok;ukasz Juszczyk in a franchise update video<\/a>. “Back when I was an artist on the first Frostpunk, none of us expected the avalanche it would trigger.”<\/p>\n

The Frostpunk video covered all aspects of the series, most notably including a first look at the upcoming Frostpunk 2 DLC Breach of Trust. This is due 23rd June and revolves around a volcanic eruption nearby your city, therefore turning a resource that’s usually sought in the game – heat – into a suddenly very destructive one. A debut video showed rivers of lava gurgling around the player’s city.<\/p>\n

“What you just saw changes everything,” Juszczyk added. “In Breach of Trust, the heat is no longer your salvation: it might just be your downfall.” He went on to say that Breach of Trust will bring an “evocative” story to the game as part of a “massive” scenario and include “fresh” gameplay mechanics. You can either wait until June to play it or sign up for playtests now.<\/p>\n

And this is not all for Frostpunk 2. Beyond Breach of Trust, Frostpunk 2 is apparently building to something “big”, which is presumably the “Surge DLC” listed on the game’s roadmap.<\/p>\n

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The Frostpunk 2 roadmap. Except there are no roads. Don’t think too much about it. | Image credit: 11 bit Studios<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in Frostpunk land, we got a brief glimpse at Frostpunk 1 remake Frostpunk 1886, which is apparently more than an Unreal Engine makeover. Notably, it includes a new Purpose upgrade path, which focuses on the strength of a community. Frostpunk 1886 also has a new close-up perspective, wider city views and new explorable areas. “We want Frostpunk 1886 to be the definitive experience of the game that started it all,” said game director Maciej Su&lstrok;ecki.<\/p>\n

Finally, 11 Bit announced there’s – at long last – a Nintendo Switch version of Frostpunk 1 coming, though it didn’t specify exactly when. Frostpunk is already available on other consoles, by the way, and from what I remember, these versions do a decent job of translating the city building experience.<\/p>\n

Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n

Finally finally: there’s a Frostpunk comic coming, made by Rocketship, written by Justin Jordan, and illustrated by Ryan Benjamin. And apparently there’s been a Frostpunk LARP event in Poland too. I can’t think of anything worse than intentionally braving cold weather for an extended period of time – the chilly Witcher School experience was cold enough<\/a> – but the people who were interviewed in the video after playing it seemed to have a nice time. None of them got turned into stew.<\/p>\n

Frostpunk is a series about city survival in extreme cold weather and the lengths you go to persevere; or rather, the boundaries you’re prepared to cross in order to persevere. Frostpunk 1 focused more on an individual perspective of survival whereas Frostpunk 2 considered a larger society. I reviewed both Frostpunk 1<\/a> and Frostpunk 2<\/a> and liked them a lot, though Frostpunk 1 tends to be more fondly remembered; Frostpunk 2 had a rockier player reaction when it launched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frozen city building survival series Frostpunk has passed an impressive milestone, creator 11 Bit Studios has announced –…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-518220","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}