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At a glance: Endless mode (Endurance, Builders, Serenity), 8 maps, city laws, expeditions, food and coal management.

Set the laws

Book of Laws decisions shape every shift. You might push for child labour to keep coal coming or build a House of Healing and lean into faith.

Launch expeditions

Send scouts beyond the crater to find survivors, steam cores and fresh food sources. Each map changes what's out there and how far you can push before a storm hits.

Pick your endless map

Eight landscapes with different weather patterns and resource spreads. Serenity dials the pressure right down; Endurance throws blizzards and hard choices at you from the start.

Good to know: Voice lines are English only, while the interface supports Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Turkish and French.

A morning shift in the crater

You open the day at minus 40. Coal is tight. You check the generator's heat map, dial the range up one notch and watch the hope bar tick sideways. That one notch bought you half a shift before the mines run dry.

Next you open the Book of Laws. Extended shifts feel cruel but the cookhouse just went offline and hungry people get angry fast. You sign it. Then you queue a hunter's hut upgrade, reassign two workers from steel to food and unpause. The city hums back to life with a dozen small animations — saws biting wood, scouts trudging toward the crater wall.

A scout report pings. They found steam cores in an abandoned factory. You weigh it against the storm warning in two days and tell them to push further anyway. At the workshop, you slide a new research slot into the queue: steam hub efficiency. Every degree matters.

By midday, the temperature drops again. The generator hiccups. You drop the range back, swear under your breath and click the overdrive button — just for an hour, just until the infirmary empties. The city holds. Barely.

Panic-freezing before the first drop

The first cold snap teaches everyone the same lesson. Rookie mistakes in Frostpunk aren't about wrong builds — they're about timing and panic.

• Over-committing to tents. Bunkhouses need wood and steel that could go to research. On higher difficulties, a tent city with an un-upgraded generator collapses fast.
• Ignoring scouts until mid-game. Steam cores and extra workers are locked behind the ice. Waiting too long starves your research tree.
• Signing every law immediately. Each law locks you out of another path. A hasty emergency shift can spiral into a death loop that tanks hope before the first blizzard.
• Cranking overdrive without a plan. Overdrive builds heat but stresses the generator. Letting it tick past the warning line during a quiet day leaves nothing for the storm.
• Forgetting the cookhouse pipeline. Raw food in storage means nothing without someone cooking it. Many a city has starved with full warehouses because hunters outpaced cooks.

Endurance run on the Flats

A player on a MacBook Air launches an Endurance map on the Flats. No trees nearby, thin coal seams, weather that swings hard. They start with a single workshop and race toward the beacon, ignoring housing upgrades for the first ten days. A scout team finds the Automaton Project site, bringing a steam core and a wounded engineer. That engineer goes straight into a medical post, and the core becomes a second automat on coal — freeing twenty workers for the cookhouse and a fresh hunter team.

By day twenty-five, the city runs on faith-based laws. House of Healing handles the frostbitten scouts. A single storm nearly wipes the stockpile, but the automatons never stop shovelling coal. The generator holds through the final whiteout with one percent overdrive left. The screen dims, the soundtrack swells and the city survives — not perfectly, but together.

• macOS 10.15 or later
• Intel processor
• 16 GB RAM
• 10 GB available storage
• 2.6GHz Intel Core i7
• 4 GB AMD Radeon Pro 5300M, Radeon Pro 560X or better