11 bit studios' new Frostpunk game isn't a threequel or a spin-off, but a remake of the original

The concealed 3rd enactment nary 1 saw coming

It was virtually lone past week that 11 spot studios announced a caller Frostpunk was connected the way, adjacent saying that it could person a merchandise day "as aboriginal arsenic 2027." Yet, present we are now, with the uncover of what it really is. It's not Frostpunk 3, it's not a spinoff, it's Frostpunk 1886, a "reimagined" mentation of the archetypal game. Yes, that fundamentally conscionable means that it's a remake, though it does dependable similar it's got a spot much going connected from it than the original.

For starters, Frostpunk 1886 is being made successful Unreal Engine arsenic opposed to 11 bit's homegrown Liquid Engine. For the astir portion that won't substance overmuch to you oregon me, but for the information that this mentation of the strategy crippled volition really person mod support. This isn't thing that was imaginable successful the archetypal crippled owed to "technical limitations", says 11 spot successful a property release.

11 spot besides notes that this won't conscionable beryllium a ocular upgrade, arsenic there'll beryllium caller content, mechanics, laws, and adjacent a caller Purpose path. No details connected what immoderate of that caller contented volition really be, but it sounds similar a tenable magnitude effort was enactment into marque definite they're not conscionable selling you a remake of a crippled that won't adjacent beryllium a decennary aged by the clip 1886 releases (11 spot reaffirmed that it's slated for a 2027 merchandise date, and that improvement has already started).

Currently 11 spot are inactive moving connected Frostpunk 2, which had a spot of a rocky start, though seems to beryllium successful a spot amended signifier these days. Oh, and don't worry, the devs besides said that Frostpunk 1886 and Frostpunk 2 volition "evolve broadside by side", truthful it's not a implicit bash over.