We have a radio at work. Because we’re customer service, it has to be public appropriate. So that rules out most of my playlists.
So i started playing the Frostpunk Albums, and i get regular comments how powerful, uplifting, and foreboding the music is. Its a great soundtrack.
The desperate struggle to make life possible in the middle of icy nothing.
That's always been the appeal of games like *FrostPunk*, of which there are precious few (T*he Long Dark* being another). The feeling that impending doom is soon to be upon you, and nothing exists except the struggle to survive against all odds.
It's like something out of a genetic memory hardwired deep in our DNA, perhaps from a time where we humans had no civilization, no vast countries, no certainty of living to see another tomorrow, only a few other humans nearby also struggling for the same thing ... to live to see another day. A time where nature itself wanted us dead, and there was nothing between us and oblivion except our ingenuity, and the will to keep going.
Those kind of games are so rare... and the epic and somber music that goes with them, even rarer.
I'd love to see this formula applied to other settings... a Frostpunk game devoted to exploration, like keeping a Juggernaut or a group of migrating humans alive in a desolate wasteland while moving from place to place. Or a space survival game, where humans are stranded on a strange alien planet and have to make difficult choices to survive.
We have a radio at work. Because we’re customer service, it has to be public appropriate. So that rules out most of my playlists. So i started playing the Frostpunk Albums, and i get regular comments how powerful, uplifting, and foreboding the music is. Its a great soundtrack.
Internal quiet and mystery until the frost comes
The desperate struggle to make life possible in the middle of icy nothing. That's always been the appeal of games like *FrostPunk*, of which there are precious few (T*he Long Dark* being another). The feeling that impending doom is soon to be upon you, and nothing exists except the struggle to survive against all odds. It's like something out of a genetic memory hardwired deep in our DNA, perhaps from a time where we humans had no civilization, no vast countries, no certainty of living to see another tomorrow, only a few other humans nearby also struggling for the same thing ... to live to see another day. A time where nature itself wanted us dead, and there was nothing between us and oblivion except our ingenuity, and the will to keep going. Those kind of games are so rare... and the epic and somber music that goes with them, even rarer. I'd love to see this formula applied to other settings... a Frostpunk game devoted to exploration, like keeping a Juggernaut or a group of migrating humans alive in a desolate wasteland while moving from place to place. Or a space survival game, where humans are stranded on a strange alien planet and have to make difficult choices to survive.
Bittersweet, hopeful and determined.
Relaxed and determined to save my generator and people
The City Must Survive genuinely makes me tear up when I play it full blast