Combat, Main Enemy Types

There is no combat, The cold is enough, it will be your enemy from start to frost bitten finish.

Governance

You will have laws to issue to your people, laws have 2 choices, selecting one choice locks out the other choice. Dead citizens? Build a cemetery, or bury them in the snow. Each with it’s own pros and cons.

Land Management

You are given what feels like a fairly small map to manage, It is large enough. Again, you have to place roads to build any buildings, and those buildings must maintain a heat level to be functional, also the game protects you from building something that will block resources with a warning message.

Characters, Leveling, Tech Tree

There are no “characters” There is also no leveling, You will have a fantastic tech tree with more choices then resources to achieve at least at first.

Creature Taming and Mounts

There is no creature taming or mounts.

Weather Impacts on Gameplay

UMMM, 3 guesses and your first 2 don’t count. COLD, “Baby it’s COLD Outside”, Did I mention cold? Every so many days the temperature drops, causing more bad stuff.

Game Modes

There is a story mode and a “endless” mode.

Map

The map appears to be hand crafted. It looks the same to me with every restart and there are no map options, there are 3 expansions available also, which provide 3 different maps but also 3 different experiences with different rules, so you won’t get to “replay” the original on a new map.

Over Game-play Difficulty

I find this game very challenging, It takes a good amount of time to figure out the heating of buildings, the zones, and management, which is what this game is all about. The actual game-play isn’t hard or confusing, I feel like the UI is nice and clean, the only thing I had trouble finding was the road building icon.