- Revisting New London #5 - Liquid and Unreal Engine - 1 September 2026
Hello Citizens, We hear you, and we know many of you are eager to see more mechanics and features from Frostpunk 1886. As mentioned in our previous update, we’re currently focusing on the artistic side of development and giving you a glimpse behind the scenes. We already have plenty in the works and will start revealing more in 2027, once everything is properly polished and ready to show. Today, we’re focusing on another important topic: our transition from the self-developed Liquid Engine to Unreal Engine 5. To help explain this change, we invited Aleksander Kauch, Technical Director, a long-time friend and member of 11 bit studios who worked extensively on the Liquid Engine that powered the original Frostpunk. Aleksander will share his experience with proprietary engines, the challenges of developing and maintaining them, and why studios increasingly turn to commercial solutions like…
- Revisiting New London #4 - Bringing Back to Life Iconic Illustrations - 24 July 2026
Hello Citizens, Today, we are back with another dev diary where our experts from different fields share how they work on the Frostpunk 1886, and one that is deeply woven into the emotional fabric of Frostpunk 1886: 2D Illustrations Production Pipeline. Frostpunk has always been about details and creating the feeling that every breakthrough, law, and dilemma is personal and shaped by your own decisions. And we know how many of you would like to see the gameplay parts of the future Frostpunk already. We just ask you for a little bit more patience, we are currently preparing for you to see old well-known gameplay in a new light, and new content as well soon! We decided to start from visual side of the Frostpunk 1886, and as soon as we will be moving closer to the launch there will be more gameplay-related topics to show one they will be ready.
- Revisiting New London #3: Procedurally Generated Content Tryout - 19 June 2026
Hello Citizens, Today, we are back with another very interesting topic, and one that will be entirely new to Frostpunk 1886: Procedurally Generated Content. Frostpunk has always been about details and creating the feeling that every playthrough is personal and shaped by your own decisions. Piotr Boczkowski - Junior Game Designer will now shed more light on how PGC will make Frostpunk 1886 feel even more personal than ever before: What exactly is PGC?It is a technique to generate any content by given rules. Imagine it as if you had a big 500x500 units chessboard and you wanted to place a pawn on each black square. With proc gen, you don't have to do it manually. You just insert a rule that loops through all squares and checks if that's a black one. If it is, place a pawn here. And then you could also make a short rule to spawn smaller pieces around each of those pawns. Maybe even offset…
- Revisiting New London #2: Animation and Visual Effects with Marta Czarnecka - 22 May 2026
Hello Citizens, We are coming back to you with another episode of "Revisiting New London" this time with Marta Czarnecka, who will show you a little bit more of animation and visual effects in the upcoming Frostpunk 1886, including a closer camera view. Let's have a walk in New London again: Deepening Personal Connection to Citizens in Frostpunk 1886 Let's start with Marta's introduction: "Hello everyone! My name is Marta, Senior 3D Animator, and I am thrilled to share some of my work with you today. I have always worked as an animator. I moved from film to games because I felt there was a whole new world to discover and a lot of life in the industry - and that proved to be true. Before joining Frostpunk 1886, I worked mainly on Frostpunk 2, so many aspects were already familiar to me. At the same time, there were new paths to explore!" We think this is a perfect moment, Marta, to tease…
- Frostpunk 1886 - [Voices of the City vol. 1] - 22 May 2026
Hello Citizens,As promised, we’re back with a summary of the questions from the latest “Revisiting New London”. You asked an enormous number of questions, and all of them were thoughtful and insightful! You also shared many suggestions, some of which we’ve already noted down to address in the future. We’ve grouped together questions that covered the same topics or touched on similar subjects: Can we see inside buildings / observe citizens more closely?That’s actually a very good question, and it will be covered in the next episode of “Revisiting New London” :)Will laws be changeable, repealable, or amendable after being chosen?No. The finality of signing laws is a design choice that we do not want to revisit in Frostpunk 1886. It is a crucial part of the game’s structure and allows your actions to have proper, understandable, and long-lasting consequences.Will growhouses be rebalanced t…
- The next Frostpunk game isn't a city builder, 11 Bit Studios reveal, alongside a modern "reimagining" of survival game This War Of Mine - 22 April 2026
11 Bit Studios have confirmed that they're making a brand new Frostpunk , alongside a "full" reimagining of their 2014 survival story This War Of Mine , and two other "completely new" games codenamed P14 and P12. No, they're not talking about the already known-about Frostpunk 1886 . The forthcoming Frostpunk project will apparently expand the doomy city-building series "into a new genre." Please not roguelite. Please not deckbuilder. Read more
- Revisiting New London #1: New Adaptation Laws with Paweł Szyszka - 10 April 2026
Hello Citizens,We gather today with a very important message about the future of New London. Today marks the beginning of a special series of updates we call "Revisiting New London." Why? Because we want to invite you back to the place where it all began and give you the opportunity to help shape its future alongside us. Yes, Frostpunk 1886 has been announced, and while there is still time before its release, that does not stop us from sharing how development is progressing. More importantly, we want to invite you to take part in shaping the future of Frostpunk 1886 through a special section called "Voices of the City," which you will find more info at the end of this article. That is why your Captain has descended a few floors of our office building to speak directly with the development team behind the upcoming Frostpunk 1886. I can already feel the temperature rising - whether from e…
- Frostpunk Franchise Fest Showcase - 6 April 2026
Hello Citizens! 11 million players, almost a whole decade of sending children to the mines, and building an amazing community around the Generator. Frostpunk has always been the crowning jewel of our portfolio, and thanks to you, we can continue to develop and expand this universe. Thank you for being with us all these years and for keeping the Frostpunk community so alive. As a token of our gratitude, we have prepared a very special Frostpunk Franchise Fest Showcase, and we are also launching our Frostpunk Franchise Sale on Steam, with discounts up to 90% on select Frostpunk products. During the showcase, we revealed the long-awaited DLC for Frostpunk 2, teased a bit more about the upcoming Frostpunk 1886, showed new merch, and mentioned more projects that are coming to our beloved Frostlands, such as announcement of first installment coming to Nintendo Switch! You can watch the full e…
- Frostpunk 1886: Message from the Game Director - 8 December 2025
Hello Citizens!We are coming back to you with another update regarding the upcoming Frostpunk 1886. Your warm welcome to the title, after the last announcement, gave us the heat we needed to launch our generators, and we would like to show you yet another tease of what the team has been working on.We don’t want to spoil too much, so check out our new video with Maciej Sułecki - Game Director of Frostpunk 1886 - revealed during the 11 bit studios Digital Showcase event:Keep in mind that we’re still about two years ahead of release, so what you’re seeing is early in development. Our goal has always been to make a game with Citizens and for the sake of the City, so we’re eager to hear your thoughts on it. As we will be progressing through 2026, you can expect more frequent updates about the development of the game, and we can’t wait to show you more behind the scenes content from our path…
- Frostpunk 1886: City Dispatch | Dev Commentary - 30 April 2025
Hello Citizens! Maciej Sułecki - Game Director of Frostpunk 1886 is excited to share some thrilling news straight from the Frostpunk team, in the new series dedicated for Frostpunk 1886 - "City Dispatch": It feels like just yesterday we were building the original Frostpunk on our internal Liquid Engine. Since then, we've learned, and explored new possibilities, especially through developing Frostpunk 2 on Unreal Engine 5. That experience showed us the immense potential of this powerful tool... and sparked an idea. What if we brought the original Frostpunk back in a new, exciting form? Thanks to the amazing feedback from our community and the advancements of Unreal Engine 5, we’ve officially started work on a new version of Frostpunk. It’s more than just a visual upgrade. We’re talking about rebirth of this game. For us this isn't just nostalgia - it's an evolution, and we’re committed t…
- Frostpunk 1886 is coming in 2027! - 24 April 2025
The journey so far While the road ahead of Frostpunk 2 is filled with Free Major Content Updates, a console launch, and DLCs – and we’re extremely excited to show you in what ways our grand strategy / society survival game can still surprise you – we’ve also always wanted to continue our work on the city-builder survival experience that is Frostpunk 1. Both titles will continue to evolve side by side, offering players diverse and engaging gameplay experiences. Looking back into the future As our internal Liquid Engine, that the first game was created on, is no longer in development, we’ve been looking for other ways to further expand upon Frostpunk for years now. When working on Frostpunk 2 in Unreal Engine 5, the limitations of our own Engine became that much more apparent but it also made us realize we could finally go back to when it all began – the moment the Great Storm came over N…
- 11 bit studios are remaking the original Frostpunk in Unreal Engine 5 with Frostpunk 1886 - 24 April 2025
11 bit studios have announced today that their popular city building survival strategy game Frostpunk from 2018 is getting a remake in Unreal Engine 5. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/11-bit-studios-are-remaking-the-original-frostpunk-in-unreal-engine-5-with-frostpunk-1886/
