Side Quest: Frostpunk Cooperative Puzzle Board Game

About this product

Six days. One abandoned Generator. Solve the puzzles, manage your resources and give your people a chance to survive.

A cooperative survival puzzle game for 1–4 players ages 14+, combining deduction, worker placement, resource management and escape room-style challenges.

Lead a desperate scouting party through the frozen world of Frostpunk as you solve puzzles, make difficult choices and try to restore an abandoned Generator.

Product Description

The cold is relentless, supplies are disappearing and time is running out.

In Side Quest: Frostpunk, you lead a group of scouts searching for somewhere humanity might survive. After a gruelling journey through the frozen wasteland, your team discovers an abandoned Generator — but finding it is only the beginning.

You have just six days to make the site inhabitable before your expedition must turn back.

Inspired by the world of the Frostpunk video game, Side Quest: Frostpunk is a standalone cooperative puzzle adventure filled with riddles, difficult decisions and limited resources. Players work together to explore locations, solve challenges and decide how best to use what little they have.

Workers help you investigate the environment around the Generator, while resources, Hope and Discontent all influence how your story unfolds. Every choice matters, and survival may require decisions that are far from comfortable.

Designed by the creators behind the Escape Tales series, the game blends escape room-style puzzles with narrative storytelling, deduction and resource management. There is no app required, so you can open the box and begin your journey into the frozen world. Board & Dice lists it as a standalone narrative escape room board game for 1–4 players.

Why You’ll Love It

• Cooperative puzzle-solving for 1–4 players.
• Set in the harsh post-apocalyptic world of Frostpunk.
• Challenging logic puzzles and escape room-style gameplay.
• Tough decisions influence the survival story.
• Manage four limited resources as the expedition progresses.
• Hope and Discontent tracks add consequences to your choices.
• Workers are used to explore locations surrounding the Generator.
• Combines deduction, storytelling and worker placement.
• Standalone game — no Frostpunk base game required.
• No app required.
• Designed for players who enjoy narrative puzzles and thinking outside the box.

Quick Details

• Publisher: Board & Dice
• Frostpunk universe: 11 bit studios
• Designers: Jakub Caban, Bartosz Idzikowski
• Artists: Magdalena Klepacz, Paweł Niziołek
• Product type: Cooperative puzzle / escape room board game
• Players: 1–4 players
• Recommended age: 14 years and older
• Playing time: Approximately 60–90 minutes
• Release year: 2024
• Standalone: Yes
• Game style: Cooperative
• Mechanisms: Deduction, storytelling, worker placement
• Theme: Science fiction / post-apocalyptic survival

Good to Know

• Standalone game: You do not need another Frostpunk board game to play.
• Cooperative experience: Players work together to solve the game's puzzles and survive the expedition.
• Solo friendly: The game supports play from 1–4 players.
• Six-day challenge: Your expedition has limited time to make the abandoned Generator inhabitable.
• Resource management matters: Supplies are limited and must be used carefully.
• Hope and Discontent: Your decisions affect more than resources — the state of your team also matters.
• No app required: Everything needed to play is contained within the game.
• Escape room style: Expect logic puzzles, discovery and narrative progression rather than a traditional competitive board game structure.

Contents

• 49 Game Cards
• 1 Answer Matrix
• 8 Answer Tiles
• 1 Hints Sheet
• 2 Generator Sheets
• 1 Endings Sheet
• 1 Double-sided Puzzle Board
• 15 Double-sided Pipe / Temperature Tiles
• 6 Tracking Markers
• 2 Worker Standees
• 1 Automaton Standee
• 6 Steam Core Tiles
• 1 Plate Frame
• 5 Food Tiles
• 4 Tablet Tiles
• 1 Tablet Frame