I've had my eyes on Ixion for a while but was turned away by similar reviews! I love a game that tells its story partially through the development of its factions and people (asking for things, advocating for changes, losing due to events), but maybe that means I should go back to Frostpunk for now!
If you really like frostpunk, Ixion is gets close to it. The constant feeling of managing away from certain doom. The low key environmental storytellling. But as said above, where frostpunk slowly ramps up the missery if you fail, Ixion will watch every step you do and gut punch you for every wrong one. Ixions story is abstract cerebral scify, which has less wide apeal then frostpunks.
I put some time in Frostpunk 1 quite a long time ago, but it's been long enough that I should probably go back and play it and review it and then play Frostpunk 2!
I like this comparison. I agree that Frostpunk was a much more gradual treadmill of suck, and I think the choices were much more gut-wrenching in Frostpunk, but I also didn't get that deep into Ixion.
I've had my eyes on Ixion for a while but was turned away by similar reviews! I love a game that tells its story partially through the development of its factions and people (asking for things, advocating for changes, losing due to events), but maybe that means I should go back to Frostpunk for now!
If you really like frostpunk, Ixion is gets close to it. The constant feeling of managing away from certain doom. The low key environmental storytellling. But as said above, where frostpunk slowly ramps up the missery if you fail, Ixion will watch every step you do and gut punch you for every wrong one. Ixions story is abstract cerebral scify, which has less wide apeal then frostpunks.
I put some time in Frostpunk 1 quite a long time ago, but it's been long enough that I should probably go back and play it and review it and then play Frostpunk 2!
I like this comparison. I agree that Frostpunk was a much more gradual treadmill of suck, and I think the choices were much more gut-wrenching in Frostpunk, but I also didn't get that deep into Ixion.