PC · Unreal Engine 5 · 1–4 Players
The long winter is over. The sun returns. Now comes the harder work — rebuilding.
"Eleven years of cold. Four survivors. One abandoned valley. What you build next is up to you."
The World
Approximately 1781. For eleven years an unprecedented winter gripped the known world. Crops failed. Rivers froze solid. Entire towns were abandoned. The cause remains unknown — perhaps a volcanic winter, perhaps something stranger.
Now, in the first spring of the Thaw, the world is scarred. You emerge as one of four survivors — two couples, bound together by hardship — with the skills of your profession, the tools you carried, and the half-mile walk to an abandoned town that still has its walls standing.
No forced ending. No final boss. Just the open frontier, and the question of what kind of community you choose to build.
Core Systems
Grow from a single repaired cabin to a city of 500. Every citizen has a name, a skill set, and a story. Assign tasks, manage morale, and watch strangers become neighbours.
Weather doesn't just change the scenery. Blizzards halt trade routes. Drought spikes raider activity. Late frosts kill crops. Cold snaps kill the elderly. Every season demands preparation.
The Wandering Warband event sends 2–10 armed survivors toward your gates. Always negotiate first. Gunslinger intimidation. Merchant bargaining. Or defend every wall.
Ten crop types, each with strict planting windows. Seeds found wild, traded for, or saved across harvests. Soil depletes. Floods happen. A Farmer's Almanac helps — barely.
Mountain lions climb your walls. Bears follow the smell of your smokehouse. Wolf packs trace blood trails to your gate. Wildlife doesn't wait for you to venture out.
Nine real fish species. No junk catches. Bait found under rocks or bought from the General Merchant. Blacksmiths forge copper and iron spoon lures. A drought-proof food source.
Every animal you kill can be skinned for hides, pelts, sinew, bone, and fat. Process them into clothing, armor, and weapon flair. A bear pelt on your coat means something.
Discover rare metals through exploration. Copper and gold unlock a late-game electricity branch: telegraph stations, electrified fencing, interior lighting. Prestige, not necessity.
No forced ending. Five achievement tiers from Bronze to Prestige give every player their own goals to chase. Speed runs, community builds, mystery hunters — all valid.
Choose Your Role
Your profession is not a stat sheet — it is how you see the world. A Blacksmith and a Physician walk into the same abandoned town and notice completely different things. Hover each card to see full details.
Explore
Travel on foot, horseback, cart, river boat, or sailing vessel. Every region holds resources, survivors, threats — and pieces of the mystery of why the Frost happened at all.
Starting area. Familiar, safer, core resources available. Wood and iron ore within reach. The abandoned town waits half a mile up the road.
Dense woodland. Lumber, game, isolated survivors. Wolf packs. Copper ore deposits hidden in rocky outcroppings beneath the snow.
Wetlands opening as ice melts. Rare herbs, exceptional fishing, wild cotton in summer. Alligators follow the floods. Dangerous but fertile.
Former trade route. Abandoned wagons, ruined inns, buried treasure. Bandits hold the key stretches. Wandering Warband events most frequent here.
Harsh terrain. Iron, coal, and deep gold veins. Cave bear guards the richest deposits. Extreme weather. Something was hidden here before the Frost.
Boat travel unlocks here. Fishing villages. Fertile soil, cotton farming viable. Flooding risk in spring. Wild rice found only in these waters.
Late-game. Ocean access and shipwreck salvage. Foreign traders carry seeds from places the Frost never reached. Distant trade routes. Sea creatures.
Multiplayer
Co-op isn't a mode bolted onto a single-player game. It is a different experience depending on how you play it — and Player 2's lobby choice defines the dynamic for the entire run.
Player 1 leads. Manages the settlement, directs major decisions, drives exploration. Your profession choice shapes everything that follows.
At the lobby, Player 2 chooses: Spouse Role — run the settlement from the inside while Player 1 is in the field — or Field Role — join Player 1 in the world with your own profession. Two completely different games.
Joins as the Second Person — the other active field member with their own profession. Synergy bonuses activate when two complementary professions work together.
Controls the Second Spouse — the settlement's second backbone. Full task assignment control. Manages arrivals, monitors morale, keeps the home fires burning while the others venture out.
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