The next Frostpunk game isn't a city builder, 11 Bit Studios reveal, alongside a modern "reimagining" of survival game This War Of Mine

Creative manager besides stresses the value of post-release development

11 Bit Studios person confirmed that they're making a marque caller Frostpunk, alongside a "full" reimagining of their 2014 endurance communicative This War Of Mine, and 2 different "completely new" games codenamed P14 and P12. No, they're not talking astir the already known-about Frostpunk 1886. The forthcoming Frostpunk task volition seemingly grow the doomy city-building bid "into a caller genre." Please not roguelite. Please not deckbuilder.

All that's from the company's latest yearly net report, successful which 11 Bit broadly accidental that 1) they're clocking up steadfast profits contempt carried-over costs and "macroeconomic factors" specified arsenic changing currency rates, and 2) that their concern is well-balanced betwixt creating archetypal games, publishing games, and making wealth from existing hits. They're besides talking up their committedness to unrecorded work and 'evergreen' productions, with originative manager Michał Drozdowski remarking that "increasingly, we deliberation of our titles arsenic projects developed besides post-release, successful dialog with the community". Please not Frostpunk: Paradox Interactive Edition. Please not Frostpunk MultiVerse.

“Our extremity is to physique a diversified portfolio," enthuses CEO Przemysław Marszał. "On the 1 hand, we are investing successful wholly caller worlds, opening consequent chapters successful the studio’s past done proprietary projects P14 and P12. We are besides expanding the beingness of the cult classical Frostpunk into a caller genre done the realization of P13.

"We besides cognize what immense worth our existing brands hold," helium goes on. "Projects similar Frostpunk 1886 oregon the recently announced P15, which is simply a reimagining of This War of Mine, are not modular remasters. They correspond a afloat modern, caller instrumentality connected the games that defined 11 spot studios, designed from the crushed up with a multi-year lifecycle and semipermanent assemblage engagement successful mind."

My instinctive reaching for a pitchfork astatine the notation of "multi-year lifecycle" notwithstanding, I'm keen to spot what 11 Bit bash with This War Of Mine, their reputation-making communicative of civilians trying to scrape retired a surviving successful an Eastern European state devastated by war. It's hard to ideate however they would attack this taxable substance contiguous without alluding to Russia's warfare connected Ukraine, conscionable crossed the border. That said, arsenic Frostpunk 1886 crippled manager Maciej Sułecki told maine earlier this year, determination person been wars underway crossed the satellite for decades – it's conscionable comparatively uncommon that occidental Europeans find them truthful adjacent astatine hand.

As for the 3rd due Frostpunk game, I suggested to Sułecki successful the aforesaid interrogation that a strategy acquisition of immoderate benignant with a headcount betwixt that of The Alters and the precise archetypal Frostpunk could beryllium absorbing territory. What would you bash with the series, aft Frostpunk 1886?

There's nary factual connection arsenic to erstwhile the caller genre-jumping Frostpunk oregon This War Of Mine's reimagining volition release, but the property merchandise adds that "in the coming quarters, players tin expect the merchandise of, among others, the afloat mentation of Moonlighter 2, further paid DLC expansions for Frostpunk 2 (including Breach of Trust successful June), and a DLC for The Alters (turn of Q2 and Q3)." Frostpunk 1886 is successful the midst of "advanced accumulation work", with a motorboat planned for "the crook of 2027/2028". As for third-party projects, 11 Bit precocious announced Crop, which is similar Stardew Valley but you get successful the footwear of a car.

I confess, erstwhile 11 Bit showed maine Crop past month, I thought it was titled "Crap", which I considered to beryllium appropriately downbeat. I astir called it that successful a preview, but past by a changeable of luck I went connected holiday, and Julian had to screen the announcement instead.