11 bit Studios brought a release date reveal trailer for Frostpunk 2 at the Xbox Partner Showcase. The sequel to the popular city building survival game released in 2018 will be available starting on July 25 for PC (where the game will support AMD FSR 3) via all main stores, including Steam, Epic Games Store, and GOG. Additionally, it will be added to Microsoft’s Game Pass subscription service from day one.
Pre-orders are open now. Customers can choose between the base edition and a Digital Deluxe edition that provides access to a beta test coming in April, among other things:
- Base game
- Seven-day beta access to part of the Sandbox mode in April
- Three paid post-release DLCs
- Exclusive access to the story mode 72 hours before the official release
- “Warm Flesh” digital novella, an enticing excerpt from the upcoming Frostpunk book anthology
- Digital artbook & soundtrack
Here’s the official feature set of Frostpunk 2 from the fact sheet shared with the press:
Frostpunk 2 takes place 30 years after the apocalyptic blizzard. You play as the leader of a resource-hungry metropolis where expansion and internal conflicts are an unavoidable reality.
As the City grows, creating and passing new laws becomes a more complex matter. The people slowly divide into factions with different, often contradictory visions of the future. The Council is a place where these ideas clash, sometimes violently. It’s your role as a Steward to ensure that the city will not fall because of those conflicts.
FEATURES
- Revisit the Frostland and face a new deadly threat to your City’s future – human nature
- Build your City on a new scale by creating entire districts with different purposes: industrial, scientific, etc.
- Ensure that all parts of the City work in unison with each other like cogs of a giant, resource-hungry machine
- Erect The Council building where you’ll forge laws of the growing metropolis
- Navigate between different factions and their ideas for the future, try to tame their ambitions as well as unrestrained thirst for power
- Research technologies that will change the face of your City
Frostpunk 2 is also coming later to consoles, and that includes Xbox Game Pass, too.
