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We're giving Frostpunk keys to yearly supporters, and temporarily discounting the annual price

Snow news day.

An image taken from a Frostpunk wallpaper. We see over the shoulder of an explorer wrapped in warm winter wear, standing in a frozen landscape, caked in snow. They are looking out onto a city in a distance. Hope - perhaps.
Image credit: 11 bit Studios

Good news! We have a pile of Frostpunk game keys to give away to you lovely yearly supporters of Eurogamer. Please note that if you're a monthly supporter, you won't be able to get one.

To coincide with the giveaway, though, we're discounting the annual Eurogamer subscription. We're knocking a fiver off - £5/€5/$5 off - to take the total price down to £25/€25/$25 for the year. Monthly, that works out at just over two pounds/euros/dollars. Remember, a regular monthly sub on Eurogamer costs £3/€3/$3.

To enable the discount, type in the code "Save5" when clicking through to purchase an annual subscription. You do this on the supporter part of the site. Keep an eye out for the "Add promotion code" field when you're on the payment page, because that's where you want to put the discount code.

Important detail: the discount expires Friday, 13th October, which is ominous indeed.

Here's a blast from the past! Chris Bratt talks to Jakub Stokalski, now co-director of Frostpunk 2, about the original game.Watch on YouTube

Today's Frostpunk giveaway also happens to coincide with my Frostpunk 2 preview being published. I recently saw a half-hour presentation of the game and came away impressed. It's very much Frostpunk, but there are some big changes underneath that will really mix up how it plays.

If you don't know, Frostpunk was the extremely tense city-building survival game from 2018. It was a game about holding your nerve under extreme pressure from apocalyptic cold weather, and trying not to become a horrible dictator in the process. How far will you go to survive? That was the motto of the game.

I reviewed Frostpunk, by the way, and really liked it.

How to get a Frostpunk key

We have Frostpunk keys for PC, Xbox and PlayStation, though there are significantly more for PC. Also, the PC codes are for GOG, not anywhere else.

Getting a code is simple. Go to the "My account" section of Eurogamer, which you'll find in the top-right on desktop, or in the three-lined Menu on mobile. Once there, navigate to "Codes", and once there, scroll down until you see the Frostpunk giveaway widget. Remember to select which platform you want a key for.

That's it! If you have any problems with the keys, or have any questions, please let me know in the comments below.

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