{"id":1870094,"date":"2026-04-07T17:04:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1870094"},"modified":"2026-04-07T17:04:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:04:48","slug":"its-just-unreal-frostpunk-series-passes-impressive-sales-milestone-as-a-switch-version-is-announced-and-major-frostpunk-2-dlc-is-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1870094","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It&#8217;s just unreal&#8221; &#8211; Frostpunk series passes impressive sales milestone, as a Switch version is announced and major Frostpunk 2 DLC is revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article \" data-ads=\"true\" data-article-type=\"news\" data-article-group=\"news\" data-paywalled=\"false\" data-premium=\"false\" data-sponsored=\"false\" data-type=\"article\">\n<header class=\"article_header\" data-component=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n<nav class=\"nav_breadcrumbs\" data-component=\"nav-breadcrumbs\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\">\n<ul class=\"nav-links\">\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Home<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/news\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      News<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_details\" id=\"main-content\">\n<h1 class=\"title\">&#8220;It&#8217;s just unreal&#8221; &#8211; Frostpunk series passes impressive sales milestone, as a Switch version is announced and major Frostpunk 2 DLC is revealed<\/h1>\n<p class=\"strapline\">&#8220;None of us expected the avalanche it would trigger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_asset\">\n<figure class=\"headline_image_wrapper\">\n<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"headline_image\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/frostpunk2_mVfzhwm.jpg?width=570&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;dpr=3&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"Key art from Frostpunk 2 showing a largely black scene and portrait of someone's face, but their goggles are reflecting a blazing fiery image, in which a city appears to be on fire. Oh no.\" loading=\"eager\" data-uri=\"frostpunk2_mVfzhwm.jpg\" data-lightbox width=\"570\" height=\"321\"><figcaption>\n          <span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>11 bit Studios<\/cite><\/span><br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"metadata\">\n<div class=\"avatar\">\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Robert Purchese avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/user-9946-originalxoriginal-14-03-23.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1017\"><\/p>\n<p>  <img alt=\"Robert Purchese avatar\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"user-9946-originalxoriginal-14-03-23.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1017\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<div class=\"byline\">\n                  <span class=\"article_type\" data-slug=\"news\"><br \/>\n                    News<br \/>\n                  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"by\">by<\/span> <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/authors\/robert-purchese\">Robert Purchese<\/a><\/span>                    <span class=\"job_title\"><br \/>\n                      Associate Editor<br \/>\n                    <\/span>\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"published_at\">\nPublished on <time datetime=\"2026-04-07T17:04:48+00:00\">April 7, 2026<\/time>              <\/div>\n<div class=\"comments\">\n      <a class=\"comments__link comments-bubble\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/frostpunk-sales-milestone-and-dlc?view=comments\" rel=\"nofollow\"><br \/>\n          3 comments<br \/>\n      <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mypop-header-wrapper\">\n<p><button class=\"mypop-button button wide\" data-state=\"follow\" data-type=\"tag\" data-uuid=\"716a1d65-d08d-4f4a-8fa1-71c2bc21de96\" data-name=\"Frostpunk\" data-follow-text=\"Follow Frostpunk\" data-unfollow-text=\"Following Frostpunk\" data-aria-follow-text=\"Follow Frostpunk\" data-aria-unfollow-text=\"Following Frostpunk\" data-popup=\"true\" data-force-login=\"true\" aria-label=\"Follow Frostpunk\" title=\"Follow Frostpunk\"><br \/>\n  Follow Frostpunk<br \/>\n<\/button>          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>Frozen city building survival series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/frostpunk\">Frostpunk<\/a> has passed an impressive milestone, creator 11 Bit Studios has announced &#8211; 11 million sales (how appropriate). That&#8217;s across 2018&#8217;s Frostpunk and its 2024 sequel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/frostpunk-2\">Frostpunk 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Seeing 11m brave the frost: it&#8217;s just unreal,&#8221; said Frostpunk 2 game director \u0141ukasz Juszczyk in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dPEBF9XL1Qs\">a franchise update video<\/a>. &#8220;Back when I was an artist on the first Frostpunk, none of us expected the avalanche it would trigger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Frostpunk video covered all aspects of the series, most notably including a first look at the upcoming Frostpunk 2 DLC Breach of Trust. This is due 23rd June and revolves around a volcanic eruption nearby your city, therefore turning a resource that&#8217;s usually sought in the game &#8211; heat &#8211; into a suddenly very destructive one. A debut video showed rivers of lava gurgling around the player&#8217;s city.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What you just saw changes everything,&#8221; Juszczyk added. &#8220;In Breach of Trust, the heat is no longer your salvation: it might just be your downfall.&#8221; He went on to say that Breach of Trust will bring an &#8220;evocative&#8221; story to the game as part of a &#8220;massive&#8221; scenario and include &#8220;fresh&#8221; gameplay mechanics. You can either wait until June to play it or sign up for playtests now.<\/p>\n<p>And this is not all for Frostpunk 2. Beyond Breach of Trust, Frostpunk 2 is apparently building to something &#8220;big&#8221;, which is presumably the &#8220;Surge DLC&#8221; listed on the game&#8217;s roadmap.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A snowy map with a large mountain in the middle. It's the Frostpunk 2 roadmap made to look like an Arctic exploration route.\" height=\"593\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/frostpunk-2-roadmap.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7655986509274872\" width=\"1047\"><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"A snowy map with a large mountain in the middle. It's the Frostpunk 2 roadmap made to look like an Arctic exploration route.\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-lightbox data-uri=\"frostpunk-2-roadmap.jpg\" height=\"593\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7655986509274872\" width=\"1047\"><figcaption>The Frostpunk 2 roadmap. Except there are no roads. Don&#8217;t think too much about it. | <span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>11 bit Studios<\/cite><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Elsewhere in Frostpunk land, we got a brief glimpse at Frostpunk 1 remake Frostpunk 1886, which is apparently more than an Unreal Engine makeover. Notably, it includes a new Purpose upgrade path, which focuses on the strength of a community. Frostpunk 1886 also has a new close-up perspective, wider city views and new explorable areas. &#8220;We want Frostpunk 1886 to be the definitive experience of the game that started it all,&#8221; said game director Maciej Su\u0142ecki.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Finally, 11 Bit announced there&#8217;s &#8211; at long last &#8211; a Nintendo Switch version of Frostpunk 1 coming, though it didn&#8217;t specify exactly when. Frostpunk is already available on other consoles, by the way, and from what I remember, these versions do a decent job of translating the city building experience.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"The Future of the Frost | Frostpunk Franchise Fest\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dPEBF9XL1Qs?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/dPEBF9XL1Qs\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">The Future of the Frost | Frostpunk Franchise Fest<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"button video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dPEBF9XL1Qs\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Finally <em>finally<\/em>: there&#8217;s a Frostpunk comic coming, made by Rocketship, written by Justin Jordan, and illustrated by Ryan Benjamin. And apparently there&#8217;s been a Frostpunk LARP event in Poland too. I can&#8217;t think of anything worse than intentionally braving cold weather for an extended period of time &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/my-gruelling-weekend-at-witcher-school\">the chilly Witcher School experience was cold enough<\/a> &#8211; but the people who were interviewed in the video after playing it seemed to have a nice time. None of them got turned into stew.<\/p>\n<p>Frostpunk is a series about city survival in extreme cold weather and the lengths you go to persevere; or rather, the boundaries you&#8217;re prepared to cross in order to persevere. Frostpunk 1 focused more on an individual perspective of survival whereas Frostpunk 2 considered a larger society. I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/frostpunk-review-a-thrilling-but-thin-frozen-city-building-game\">reviewed both Frostpunk 1<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/frostpunk-2-review-a-sequel-of-consequence\">Frostpunk 2<\/a> and liked them a lot, though Frostpunk 1 tends to be more fondly remembered; Frostpunk 2 had a rockier player reaction when it launched.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"poll_wrapper\" data-fixed=\"true\" data-hashid data-init=\"false\" data-poll-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"preferred-source\" data-component=\"preferred-source\">\nLove Eurogamer.net? Make us a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\">Preferred Source on Google<\/a> and catch more of our coverage in your feeds.  <\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>Frozen city building survival series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/frostpunk\">Frostpunk<\/a> has passed an impressive milestone, creator 11 Bit Studios has announced &#8211; 11 million sales (how appropriate). That&#8217;s across 2018&#8217;s Frostpunk and its 2024 sequel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/frostpunk-2\">Frostpunk 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Seeing 11m brave the frost: it&#8217;s just unreal,&#8221; said Frostpunk 2 game director \u0141ukasz Juszczyk in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dPEBF9XL1Qs\">a franchise update video<\/a>. &#8220;Back when I was an artist on the first Frostpunk, none of us expected the avalanche it would trigger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Frostpunk video covered all aspects of the series, most notably including a first look at the upcoming Frostpunk 2 DLC Breach of Trust. This is due 23rd June and revolves around a volcanic eruption nearby your city, therefore turning a resource that&#8217;s usually sought in the game &#8211; heat &#8211; into a suddenly very destructive one. A debut video showed rivers of lava gurgling around the player&#8217;s city.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What you just saw changes everything,&#8221; Juszczyk added. &#8220;In Breach of Trust, the heat is no longer your salvation: it might just be your downfall.&#8221; He went on to say that Breach of Trust will bring an &#8220;evocative&#8221; story to the game as part of a &#8220;massive&#8221; scenario and include &#8220;fresh&#8221; gameplay mechanics. You can either wait until June to play it or sign up for playtests now.<\/p>\n<p>And this is not all for Frostpunk 2. Beyond Breach of Trust, Frostpunk 2 is apparently building to something &#8220;big&#8221;, which is presumably the &#8220;Surge DLC&#8221; listed on the game&#8217;s roadmap.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A snowy map with a large mountain in the middle. It's the Frostpunk 2 roadmap made to look like an Arctic exploration route.\" height=\"593\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/frostpunk-2-roadmap.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7655986509274872\" width=\"1047\"><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"A snowy map with a large mountain in the middle. It's the Frostpunk 2 roadmap made to look like an Arctic exploration route.\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-lightbox data-uri=\"frostpunk-2-roadmap.jpg\" height=\"593\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7655986509274872\" width=\"1047\"><figcaption>The Frostpunk 2 roadmap. Except there are no roads. Don&#8217;t think too much about it. | <span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>11 bit Studios<\/cite><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Elsewhere in Frostpunk land, we got a brief glimpse at Frostpunk 1 remake Frostpunk 1886, which is apparently more than an Unreal Engine makeover. Notably, it includes a new Purpose upgrade path, which focuses on the strength of a community. Frostpunk 1886 also has a new close-up perspective, wider city views and new explorable areas. &#8220;We want Frostpunk 1886 to be the definitive experience of the game that started it all,&#8221; said game director Maciej Su\u0142ecki.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Finally, 11 Bit announced there&#8217;s &#8211; at long last &#8211; a Nintendo Switch version of Frostpunk 1 coming, though it didn&#8217;t specify exactly when. Frostpunk is already available on other consoles, by the way, and from what I remember, these versions do a decent job of translating the city building experience.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"The Future of the Frost | Frostpunk Franchise Fest\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dPEBF9XL1Qs?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/dPEBF9XL1Qs\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">The Future of the Frost | Frostpunk Franchise Fest<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"button video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dPEBF9XL1Qs\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Finally <em>finally<\/em>: there&#8217;s a Frostpunk comic coming, made by Rocketship, written by Justin Jordan, and illustrated by Ryan Benjamin. And apparently there&#8217;s been a Frostpunk LARP event in Poland too. I can&#8217;t think of anything worse than intentionally braving cold weather for an extended period of time &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/my-gruelling-weekend-at-witcher-school\">the chilly Witcher School experience was cold enough<\/a> &#8211; but the people who were interviewed in the video after playing it seemed to have a nice time. None of them got turned into stew.<\/p>\n<p>Frostpunk is a series about city survival in extreme cold weather and the lengths you go to persevere; or rather, the boundaries you&#8217;re prepared to cross in order to persevere. Frostpunk 1 focused more on an individual perspective of survival whereas Frostpunk 2 considered a larger society. I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/frostpunk-review-a-thrilling-but-thin-frozen-city-building-game\">reviewed both Frostpunk 1<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/frostpunk-2-review-a-sequel-of-consequence\">Frostpunk 2<\/a> and liked them a lot, though Frostpunk 1 tends to be more fondly remembered; Frostpunk 2 had a rockier player reaction when it launched.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"poll_wrapper\" data-fixed=\"true\" data-hashid data-init=\"false\" data-poll-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home News &#8220;It&#8217;s just unreal&#8221; &#8211; Frostpunk series passes impressive sales milestone, as a Switch version is announced and major Frostpunk 2 DLC is revealed &#8220;None of us expected the avalanche it would trigger.&#8221; Image credit: 11 bit Studios News by Robert Purchese Associate Editor Published on April 7, 2026 3 comments Follow Frostpunk Frozen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,253],"class_list":["post-1870094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-eurogamer-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1870094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1870094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1870094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1870094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}