Frostpunk 2’s The Surge DLC Brings Electricity-Fueled Faction Conflict and a December Release Date

You can blame Tesla for this one

For now, the world of Frostpunk remains hypothetical, even if it seems just a little more likely than one would hope given who is currently in charge of the world. At the very least, though, there are pockets of hope to be found in Frostpunk 2, namely through its newly revealed next chunk of DLC, The Surge—a name given to it for reasons that are incredibly obvious. Oh, you need me to explain? Very well.

You and your probably not so merry band of survivors have been trekking across the UK when you end up at a “mysterious valley.” Apparently, some rumours have been circulating about a “marvel left behind by history’s greatest mind—a relic with the potential to reshape the world itself.” So you set off to look for it, and it seems this relic lets you make use of a whole lot of electricity. Only, despite how useful this is for automating a great deal of work, various factions disagree over how it should be used, “while the secrets hidden within the valley prove far more difficult to uncover than anyone expected.”

In terms of what you should expect from this DLC, for starters there’s a new scenario to check out, “set in an entirely new region, far beyond the borders explored in Frostpunk 2 so far.” This relic is also implied to have come from the mind of one Nikola Tesla, you know, the electricity guy. There’ll apparently be ways to utilise the Great Storm that has ruined the planet to “turn catastrophic whiteouts into valuable, harvested and stored resources.” And you’ll have some hidden treasures to find and mysteries to uncover in various nearby caves and ruins.