I cant help but compare this to Frostpunk.
Two management games about shepherding a small group of survivors through bitter cold. The same resources to manage, those being food, health, morale and especially heat.
And yet what they're about could not be more different. Frostpunk is a game about how the health of the few pales in comparison to the health of the many, that sacrifices must be made. In The Pale Beyond, the two are interlinked. Everyone has their role to play, nobody is expendable, nobody is truly replaceable. Every loss is a tragedy that can cascade into the doom of the whole. We get through this together or we don't make it through at all.
Docking half a point because there's a wonderful piece from the soundtrack that isn't available anywhere for love or money.
Two management games about shepherding a small group of survivors through bitter cold. The same resources to manage, those being food, health, morale and especially heat.
And yet what they're about could not be more different. Frostpunk is a game about how the health of the few pales in comparison to the health of the many, that sacrifices must be made. In The Pale Beyond, the two are interlinked. Everyone has their role to play, nobody is expendable, nobody is truly replaceable. Every loss is a tragedy that can cascade into the doom of the whole. We get through this together or we don't make it through at all.
Docking half a point because there's a wonderful piece from the soundtrack that isn't available anywhere for love or money.