Frostpunk 2 is not another iterative sequel, but a detailed overhaul of the foundation which made the original game so relentlessly bleak and mechanically challenging. As a distressing choice-driven adventure game masquerading as a city-builder/survival experience, 11 Bit Studios Frostpunk tumbled genre expectations on release, tasking players with the construction, maintenance, and expansion of an increasingly complicated urban stronghold in the dead of a volcanic winter. Frostpunk 2, for better and possibly for worse, amplifies the originals thesis while discarding a few vestigial aspects; frankly, this is the epitome of a divisive sequel.