Key Takeaways
- Frostpunk 2 guides your city through several crises comprised of different factions, each offering unique perks and abilities.
- Legionnaires generate prefabricated buildings and additional guards to help players manage protests and rebellions.
- Menders provide a population of 500+ through rescue operations and exploration, while Technocrats prioritize research speed.
in Frostpunk 2Society must make a living in the frozen wasteland that has become Earth. Over the past 30 years, the world has suffered from rapidly cooling temperatures and severe snowstorms. The last known city on Earth is clustered around a generator built at the start of this environmental chaos.

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In the game's Utopia Builder mode, players must build and guide this city through several crises to achieve their chosen ambitions, such as colonizing the Frostlands or turning the city into a metropolis. However, they cannot rule alone, as the people of the city have joined various factions trying to steer the city's future in a specific direction. Each faction has active abilities that players can use if they are on good terms with them, and passive perks that activate when they are happy. Some of these are more useful than others.
8 bohemian
Adaptation, equality, reason
- Host Mind Shaping Sessions: Improve Confidence
- Good Relationships Perk: Periodically strengthen your community relationships.
Bohemians are a group of people with good hearts and sound goals. They want everyone in the city to trust each other and coexist peacefully, which is a laudable but naive ambition. Given the enormity of the problems facing the world, Frostpunk 2Unfortunately, for many people, happiness is the price of survival.
Increasing community relations is certainly a nice perk, but it's not necessary to continue playing the game. Likewise, low reliability can be a losing condition, but players who need help building it will likely face bigger problems that other factions are better suited to solve.
7 legionnaire
Progress, equality, tradition
- Raise Prefabs: Create a Prefab.
- Good Relations Perk: The city has extra guards.
Legionnaires promote the idea of using new technologies to create a better society for everyone. The passive perk of having a good relationship with a Steward provides additional guards, which can be of great help to the player when facing protests and rebellions.

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But its best asset is its active ability to create prefabricated buildings. Because industrial districts can provide either structures or goods, it can be very difficult to create enough structures to expand your city without controlling crime due to lack of goods. This is especially true in the early parts of the Utopia Builder campaign, where Legionnaires are most helpful. Once enough industrial zones are built, their usefulness diminishes beyond violent clashes between the player's guards and disaffected factions.
6 Menders
Adaptation, equality, tradition
- Organization of rescue operations: population +500
- Good Relationships Perk: Expeditions are faster.
The Menders are a group of resilient citizens whose goal is to make the Frostlands a home for all. They hope to uplift the poor and create an equal society in Surrey. To this end, their active ability is to go on adventures, find survivors in the wilderness, and bring them back to the fold of the city. The extra population gained from this ability can be very useful early in the game when population growth rates are not always high enough to allow cities to expand very quickly. It can also help recover losses from catastrophic events such as power outages or civil war.
Passive abilities that increase exploration speed are very useful as they allow players to explore more of the surrounding area between whiteouts. Players with the Frostland Colonization ambition will particularly benefit, as they will be able to find and settle each potential colony site more quickly.
5 technology center
Progress, equality, reason
- Research Optimization: Significantly increases research speed.
- Good Relationship Perk: Reduced Material Demand
Technocrats are the epitome of a progressive cornerstone because, in addition to promoting new research, they also indirectly help reduce the squalor that inevitably arises from steampunk technology. By reducing the number of materials required for a city, players can produce more goods or prefabricated buildings in addition to meeting the city's material requirements.

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Technocrats' active abilities are very useful once players have enough hitstamps to continually research new ideas. Speeding up your research can be helpful when you can't find a solution to an important problem. However, if the player feels limited by their hitstamp income, the extra speed may not be very useful since the player cannot immediately start the next speed. This makes the Technocrats a situational force.
4 protein
Adaptation, advantages, reasons
- Coordinating patient care: Sick people returning to work.
- Good Relationship Perks: Reduces illness.
Protean begins with a group of thinkers, raiders, or merchants coming together to advocate for building a society that embraces survival of the fittest against legionnaires.
Both their passive and active capabilities are focused on helping cities manage disease. As a passive perk, sickness is simply reduced, but as an active ability, sick patients can continue to work. This can be very useful during whiteout periods when illness can increase rapidly due to lack of heat. A variety of factors can affect the disease, including storms, buildings, laws, housing, and research, so the Protean's usefulness may outlast other forces.
3 ice blood
Adaptation, Advantages, Traditions
- Volunteer Exploration: +80 Food Production
- Good Relationships Perk: Increases food production.
The Ice Bloods embrace frost differently than other groups in the Utopia Builders, even wearing clothing that exposes most of their bodies to the elements. They are active and willing to venture into the Frostlands to forage for food in the wilderness. This ability can be a lifesaver when food areas start to close due to food shortages.
Their passive perks are generally helpful as they increase food production. Players struggling to reduce their hunger may want to consider gaining favor with the Ice Bloods.
2 venture company
Progress, Advantages, Reasons
- Financial Mercenaries: Recruit additional guards
- Good Relationships Perk: Increases heatstamp income.
Venturers are business-minded individuals who come together to increase the wealth of their city. They strive to create a fiercely capitalist society where fierce competition wins and technology makes cities merciless. Therefore, their passive perk is to increase hitstamp income, creating wealth for almost any action the player wants.
Their active perk is another way to put a Venturer's wealth to good use: hiring mercenaries. Players can increase the number of guards at their disposal when it is advantageous for the Venturer, which can help quell violence in the city.
1 supervisor
Progress, advantage, tradition
- Overdrive Output: Increased Production Efficiency
- Good Relationships Perk: Less crime.
The Overseers are an efficient group of mechanics, merchants, and lords who seek to use the city's advancing technology to rebuild the old empire. While they appear cruel and callous towards their opposing faction, the Bohemians, the Overseers are the most useful faction a player can have on their side.
Reducing crime with a passive trait is especially useful if players haven't made the effort to build watchtowers and prisons. But the real strength of this faction is its active ability to increase overall production efficiency. Unlike other abilities, Overdrive Power applies to everything in the city, from gathering food to extracting fuel to producing goods and structures. This universal boost makes Overseer the best faction in Utopia Builder for players looking to build a lasting legacy with as many survivors as possible.

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- released
- September 20, 2024