Frostpunk 2 Dev Recoups Entire Marketing, Production Budget in Three Days | Push Square

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In fantastic news for fans of grimdark city builders, developer 11 Bit Studios announced that Frostpunk 2, in just three days, has already recouped the game's entire marketing and production budget. It managed to move an astonishing 350,000 copies on PC alone, and with a PS5 port promised to follow, we imagine that number will only continue to rise.

This success is honestly surprising for a couple of reasons. Firstly, while fans of the first game will constantly evangelise for it, the series isn't very well known, and Frostpunk 2 reportedly makes some significant departures from the original. Second, the chilly response to a beta in June caused the game to be delayed, so it seems that 11-Bit has put in some serious work in the meantime, earning a very respectable 86 on Metacritic. Thirdly, and finally, as much as this scribe wishes things were otherwise, proper strategy games rarely sell well, especially ones that don't revolve around combat, so this is welcome news, indeed.

Needs more time in the oven

Make the best of a bad situation

Are you surprised to see the success Frostpunk 2 is enjoying? Are you optimistic that 11 Bit Studios will successfully make the conversion to a console control scheme? Let us know in the comments section below.

Khayl Adam is Push Square's roving Australian correspondent, a reporter tasked with scouring the internet for the richest, most succulent PlayStation stories. With five years of experience as a freelance journalist and mercenary wordsmith, RPGs are his first great love, but strategy and tactics games are a close second, genres in which he is only too happy to specialize.

Loved the first. Was terrible at it, but excited for round 2. Glad to see there are devs out there capable of making great games on a budget that is easy to recoup.

It's a little too miserable for me, and I can't stand snowy settings (I know, weird), but I'm happy for the devs.

I still have the first one on my list to play but I'm glad the devs recoup what they