Glass Cannon Unplugged Bringing Frostpunk To The Tabletop
June 17, 2020 by brennon
Glass Cannon Unplugged are going to bringing the PC strategy game, Frostpunk, to the tabletop with a new board game popping up on Kickstarter this Autumn.
Frostpunk Front Cover
The game comes from world-class designer Adam Kwapiński who has worked on such projects as Nemesis, Lords Of Hellas, Heroes, Inbetween and Dark Age to name a few. The aim is to bring the choice and consequences of the PC game to the tabletop in this world where you're trying to survive against the deathly cold.
"In the 19th century, an ice storm of apocalyptic proportions has devoured the globe, severing all communication between England and the rest of the Empire. Starved of options, the government ordered the complete evacuation of Britain. The goal was to navigate to the sites of the British Science Expeditions' research outposts that were equipped with Heat Generator Towers and keep some form of civilization alive until the end of winter... if there is one!"
More information on this game are going to be coming in the next few weeks and months in the run-up to the Kickstarter. As someone who has enjoyed seeing people play through the strategy game on PC, it will be fascinating to see how things translate over into the board game.
If you've not heard of the game before, make sure to take a look at it on Steam and then keep an eye out for what's next too.
Will you be checking this out?
"...it will be fascinating to see how things translate over into the board game"
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“Morally complex” are two words I find very appealing, mostly in novels but I love to see it present in games. I don’t play computer games any more but yes I’m interested in this
Worth the conundrum of how to work through a game in making choices that go through the rest of the session.
I’m still wanting to play that game on PC but haven’t pulled the trigger…
DO IT!!!!
So the game is as good as they say? 😉
It is definitely a good pc game that will make you sit in your emotions once you make choices. As things progress it gets more and more complicated, of course, but sometimes the random chance encounters are the ones that get you. The player investment I think really comes from a general sense of empathy in as far as the overall genre. Its survival and as the player you’re trying to literally have people survive. Its a primal part of your sense of community building that puts you on edge because the situation is live or die. Honestly, the marriage… Read more »
First they take my money for the pc and now a tabletop game? This isn’t wage slavery, its game slavery!
Never heard of the game will have to look at some game videos to get the head’s up.