Do you prefer FP1 or FP2?

[AsuraStrike]

and why?

[Kenuty]

I don't see a difference honestly because i look at the game like excel, the only diference is the graphics but the concept is the same, numbers get modified and fluctuate (Laws, heat etc) and you try not to let it get to a danger threshold

2 is more beautiful and adds more. like controlling multiple cities

[DiMenezes]

I'm at the very beginning of FP2 (on GamePass) but so far it's not even close to the greatness of Frostpunk 1.

The second game as of right now is being disappointing, and that is me being generous.

[Darbogale]

Number wise, like the previous answer said, it indeed seems like the same.

But immersion wise and art, i would say the FP1 :
- Each exploration forces and shows you a bigger and more explicite view of the exploration.

- Deaths occurs but are more visuals since you see each of your citizen, it affects more since you carry the weight of a small team as you progress compared to FP2, where you are more disconected to your own citizen, even with Little may introduction in FP2.
(It is disapoting not to have few updates on how little may progresses along the story, would have been a better way of connecting the player back to its citizen.

- While tense, FP1 New Home ending and apex of the story was more clenching than the actual FP2 story.
(May be nostalgia, but "city must not fall" OST during the ending of the first game was better)

-Likewise, the ending of New Home shows us nicely a timelapse of the circular city with a poem like ending through our choices.
(FP2 did it to, but with multiple fonts which was strange, like their is nice cursive font, followed with modern font, nitpicking here but the immersion from the first game was better in most aspect of each little details compared to FP2.)

[Strategic Sage]

FP1. FP2 falls down on the worldbuilding front, as the larger scale, colonies, etc. undermine the unique aspect of FP1: moral conundrums balancing your city's survival against that of the individual. FP1 was not without flaws of course, but there's just too much about the setting of FP2 that simply makes no sense and it becomes just another strategy/resource management game.

Frostpunk was unique. It's not anymore.

[NijimaXL]

FP1 Every death matters in FP1. In FP2 nah.. just another number down as long as I have workers its fine.

[sss]

not a sane person would prefer FP2

[Amaretto]

FP1 = Immersion, Emotion, every choice matters.
FP2 = You're like a President, whatever you do doesn't matter at all - you just get loads of new people if others die

[Sythalin]

Originally posted by Strategic Sage:

it becomes just another strategy/resource management game.

Frostpunk was unique. It's not anymore.

Both games are "just another strategy/resource management game". That's the very essence of both Frostpunk games.

[Strategic Sage]

I completely disagree, for reasons stated. Frostpunk 1 was explicitly encouraging the player *not* to look at it that way.

[Blutwurst]

fp 2 has some gimmics like the ability to build outposts.
but its too resource hungry. its crashing, freezing, sound cracking. thats not fun

fp 1 was the better game.

[na koleni]

FP2 'cuz 10 crashed AMD drivers out of 10

[farcoco]

I like them both. I just finished the prologue of FP2 and it's good so far. I don't see too much where the complaints apply there, even if the hex gameplay feels a bit too Civ5 to me.
But the good thing is FP1 and FP2 complete each other, and let's remember that FP1 have been GREATLY improved with patches and DLCs so, FP2 will be too.
FP2 is also not in the same context than FP1 (raw survival just after the catastrophe)

[Dari]

These questions will mostly be invalid, because people hold on to the nostalgia of things

[Dr Deep]

It could be because i'm older, but the second got me a little bored already. It was just too much to juggle too quickly.

To be honest the other thing was the immersion. The first felt like Manor Lord, everything had an animation, everything had it's place. This one feels a bit more white washed, like they're pushing you to use your imagination.

I don't mind this too much but the fading in and out of the ice breaker machines really didn't feel right, and the lack of contrast between ice broken and iced tiles i don't like.

I loved in FP1 that you could really see where was warm and where was cold. With this one i'm a little unsure still.

[Čmaroljub Grozni]

FP2 is the better one by far, at least for me. I don't care much about placing streets and houses around and I enjoy law bringing and political gameplay of the second one. Couldn't be happier with Frostpunk 2 <3

I've enjoyed FP1 for what it is. FP2 scratches a different itch for me.