Two Games Are Available Today With Xbox Game Pass (September 18)

I tried Frostpunk 2 on pc and I was kind of disappointed they had gone away from the personal style of the first game. I liked that I could place individual dwellings and assign specific people to jobs. Controlling the heat meant something more when you might be leaving someone with a name out in the cold. When someone got sick or injured I knew where they worked and where they lived. In FP2 it's just big hexagonal, impersonal, representative zones with lots of numbers instead of actual people.

TBF I only played the first level, so I'm going to give it another try on console. Maybe there's more meat to the gameplay that will hook me like the first did.

@AverageJoseph That's a bummer to hear about FP2. I love the first game. Got it on a whim and ended up putting dozens of hours into it, buying all the DLC.

I wish they'd make a game in that universe that was more personal. Like, if they took the gameplay of The Alters and gave it a Frostpunk coat of paint.

@wildcat_kickz yeah that would be really cool. I liked The Alters a lot and it's the same studio right? This War of Mine too I think. So they seem to excel at telling the personal survival stories. It seems an odd choice for FP2.

Wobbly Life looks great.

Wobbly life is surprisingly good! I play it with my kid and it's definitely my favorite family co-op game. I didn't immediately warm to it but over time there's so much to do. I just wish the economy was a bit more forgiving! Getting the mansion and stuff was a proper grind. I stayed up a couple of evenings down the mines to help him out in the end!