beautiful and harrowing town builder/survival game. snowpiercer meets pathologic meets banner saga. Every new day is filled with utter disempowerment and dread but the experience somehow manages to feel like a galvanizing struggle, worth persevering through to its end, despite cruelly thwarting you at every turn??? An amazing tonal and mechanical balance to achieve. So much dignity and degredation in this, the atmosphere is a real achievement. I especially love how the game has a Hope/Discontentment sorta metric like so many of these town building games do, but they're separate stats rather than a lone "happy/unhappy" binary slider. It feels really fitting that even in the harshest and most deleterious times, when discomfort and discontentment run rampant, it's still possible for hope to rise through unified struggle and shared purpose. felt such cameraderie and connection to my sickly little british workers! buying them all new parkas and fancy hot chocolate mixes for christmas. sorry 4 compromising my morality and publicly executing a few of u