Frostpunk — Mac download

One city. A generator at its heart. The temperature outside is -30°C and falling.

Scenarios and modes

• A main story that tests how far you'll go to keep society alive
• Endless mode with three distinct variants: Endurance, Builders, and Serenity
• 8 maps, each with its own landscape, weather patterns, and resource layout

Systems you manage

Every run pulls you into law setting, work-hour policies, medical care, and food distribution. You sign laws that reshape the city's morale, assign shifts in freezing workplaces, and decide who gets treated when the infirmary overflows. The game runs in English voice with interface support for eleven languages including French, German, Korean, and Polish.

Save files stop unravelling on long Endurance maps

Version 1927 (46330) is the current Mac release. Day to day, the changes matter most in the late game and in endless mode. The build tightened how save files behave across longer runs, which means a 40-day Endurance map no longer stalls at the same choke points it used to. Stability on Intel Macs is noticeably better than in the 2018 launch build — fewer mid-session drops, fewer crashes when the city population climbs past 600, and cleaner autosaves when the storm hits.

Performance tuning is the other visible shift. The build handles large cities with better frame pacing, especially when zooming through smoky districts or opening the book of laws during a blizzard. Nothing about the core systems changed — laws still cost hope or discontent, the generator still needs coal every night — but the game gets out of its own way more often.

Temperature and time compress every choice into hours

Against Banished, Frostpunk is narrower and sharper. Banished spreads its challenge across seasons, trade, and slow demographic drift. Frostpunk compresses everything into temperature and time. You are not building a village that might fail over ten years; you are managing a crater that will freeze in three days unless you act.

Against RimWorld, the comparison is about scale and personality. RimWorld generates stories from colonists with names, moods, and grudges. Frostpunk works at the level of policy — you sign a law, not a conversation. Both games punish indecision, but RimWorld punishes from inside the colony while Frostpunk punishes from the sky.

Against This War of Mine — also from 11 bit studios — the shared DNA is moral pressure. This War of Mine asks what one person will do to survive a siege. Frostpunk asks the same question of a mayor. The city builder scale makes the choices feel colder, because the people affected are numbers on a screen until they are not.

A few-hour scenario where the cold never softens

• City builder veterans who find traditional growth curves too forgiving. Frostpunk has no sandbox mode without consequences — even Serenity keeps the cold honest.
• Strategy players who like short, brutal campaigns. A single scenario runs a few hours, not a weekend, and every action matters.
• Mac owners on Intel machines. The system requirements favour a 2.6GHz Core i7 with 16 GB RAM, and the current build runs better on that hardware than earlier releases did.
• Players who want their survival games to ask something back. The law screen is not decoration — it is the game.

• macOS 10.15 or later
• Intel processor (2.6GHz Core i7 or better)
• 16 GB RAM
• 4 GB AMD Radeon Pro 5300M, Radeon Pro 560X, or better
• 10 GB available storage