Frostpunk - The City Must Survive | Reacting To Video Game Music!

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[bitstudios]

Hey there! Awesome to witness your reaction to our Frostpunk music - it's been all possible thanks to Piotr Musiał and his composing genius :) It'd be interesting to see your reaction to music from our other games but if Frostpunk tickled your fancy, we'e had the music come to vinyl as well. Have an awesome week ahead!

[LexioLTG]

"The track keeps growing with no climax, then seems to be slowing down, then it grows again."
There's a mechanic in-game where you can check the temperature in your city, you can see if it gets colder or if it gets warmer. The music embodies the feeling of the incoming and inevitable cold that's always approaching, and even when it gets warmer, it's still deadly cold. Brilliant.

[DayleDiamond]

Playing this game in the middle of the night, in winter, with the front door open and the whole house chilly is just *chef's kiss*

[taldir]

Oh the ptsd D: temperature drops to - 150 degrees... Coal supplies are nearly depleted... Generator on the verge of exploding for being used in overdrive for too long... And The music only kept the feeling of Despair bigger and bigger <3

[thestabbybrit]

I can hear the winds howling as the stormfront draws near. I can see the hunting parties coming home and locking down their airships, likely never to launch again. I can see the scouts dragging their sleds back to the warehouses and locking the doors tight.

The temperature is dropping. The crops in the greenhouse die as the building freezes solid. Nobody can work for fear of losing limbs to frostbite. I sit and watch the Automatons stumble through the empty streets, terrified they will shut down and rob me of the last trickle of coal being eked out of the mines. The temperature is still dropping.

The generator is cranked up as far as we can take it, and yet the houses are still cold. I can see the overcharge meter growing as the generator is pushed beyond its limits in a desperate attempt to keep homes and medical facilities above freezing when the temperature drops again.


And there is nothing left I can do. Nothing. The engineers cannot develop any new heating or insulation systems because half of them are in the medical tents treating the sick and dying. The other half ARE the sick and dying. Even if they could work on research, we don't have the resources to implement new upgrades. Even if we did, anyone forced out of their homes during the upgrades would die in a heartbeat.

I'm going to have to turn off the overdrive soon or the generator will blow... and the temperature just dropped again.

I started the storm with over four hundred citizens. Fifty are dead already, and I just dropped the heat output by half. But there's no outrage, not this time. It's too late for that. Anyone who tried to leave would die. Anyone who took to the streets in protest would die. The storm has done what no amount of prisons, watchtowers or jackboots could do - it has crushed all dissent.

Half the city is dead now. Half of who remains will likely never see morning. But the generator is back on overdrive. I have just enough coal for another hour of life-sustaining heat, maybe two.

It's almost dawn. This has to be it! The storm can't get any worse! It has to end soon! I sit at my desk and I pray, in silent desperation, that with dawn shall come salvation. I can make it until dawn. I pray I can make it until dawn...

The wind stops. I slam the reactor down to low output as the world grows still. The temperature outside is still below freezing, but the sudden rise is so intense that for a moment I dare to dream that spring has come at last. In the stillness of the morning I take stock: our reserves are all but gone, and seventy percent of the population is dead. The corpses of the fallen fill the houses, the hospitals, the streets.

And yet that does not matter. For the storm has passed, and though it has been tested unto the brink of distaster... the City has survived.

[for_the_lore]

The game that reveals how quickly you can rationalize to yourself the benefits of becoming an absolute monster lol

[Irisfantasies]

Oh boy... This song in game with the storm effects and the crackling of ice in the back ground is freaking good.

The perfect song to survive an apocalyptic winter man... I was screaming at the end of this game begging for the thermometer to stop dropping hahaha

[diamondrust]

Just love the fact that bits of the song sound like elements in the environment. From the strings sounding like the wind and the cellos joining with percussion to sound like beating machinery. Glorious.

[TomboTheTornado]

“This was the last thing that I was expecting from a game called frostpunk” Discontent falls. Hope rises.

[copjing]

Frostpunk is a game about battling the cold. As you play the environment gets colder and colder and colder and you have to do everything to keep your people as warm as possible. Occasionally there are massive blizzards that blow through, preventing you from leaving the base and drastically reducing the temperature even more for a few days. In certain scenarios these blizzards can be so insanely cold that people will freeze to death even with all of the heating technology in the game. Generally there isn't much to do during blizzards, you just hunker down and try your best to survive. The music that plays during the blizzards is fittingly intense. I'm not sure if this one plays during blizzards but it definitely sounds familiar.

[jakerooke]

Ah yes the boss music for a city builder

[roccoalabasta]

YESSSS!!! Hands down the most underrated soundtrack for a video game EVER. I have never felt as much despair and hopelessness as I have when playing this game.

[Super-xsgq]

Frostpunk is a game where all civilization has fallen. You play as the leader for the last hope for humanity against the cold- a city named New London. Near the end of the game, you receive news that a deadly storm is coming- worse than everything New London has faced so far combined. Survival seems impossible, but since humanity will literally go extinct if New London falls, the citizens steel themselves against the coming storm, since The City Must Survive.

[hellsonion]

This hit way harder for me going in blind on the game and somehow managing to beat this section.

All the lore builds up to this moment and that final blast of the horns is such a relief.

The ticking clock is just perfect. Really felt like every second of fuel and power counted. And every life sacrificed MATTERED. Few games make your decisions feel like they matter anymore.

[ryanlorenzo]

I've had dreams of my lowly Captain, after all the atrocities he's committed for the greater good (or the suffering he's had to endure because he wouldn't cross the line) just standing there, next to the generator as people huddle together suffocating in their final moment. Where if they didn't hold out their torment before death was going to last minutes at best, hours at worst.

And then waking up because I left this song in loop before falling asleep.

Frostpunk really does "Remember that you're mortal." well.

[jaypaterson]

FrostPunk is steampunk in the blistering cold, but the steampunk theme carries over heavily into the music, in particular the tracks Brave New World and Into the Storm, which you might appreciate.

[poskeegget]

How I remember this track. A lot more drawn out in the game, and for good reason. Every pause in there is time for you to brace for the next peak of the storm, even though you came out of the last hit worse off than before, every single time. This is honestly the most hard hitting theme I have every encountered in a game. It just drives your nerves into such a pitch as you play, that when it dies down at the end you simply have to let out a shaky breath.

[thomasschafer]

Kid: "Dad, why is my sisters name Rose?"

Bricky: "Because your mother loves Roses"

Kid: "Wow, thanks dad"

Bricky: "No problem,

[toddoverholt]

It's boss music. But there is no boss fight. No boss to fight, there is only the Storm bearing down on you and all you can do is try to weather through it.

[michi]

this is one of very rare game OST that exceptionally well represents what is happening on the screen... in this case, facing inevitable freezing doom, trying to survive it with at least someone alive while everything in your city collapses and falls apart