How to Raise Hope in Frostpunk

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By India MacGregor

Published Jun 16, 2021

Keeping Hope high is the main aspect of Frostpunk, and the mechanic can often become a very difficult thing to accomplish and keep up throughout.

Through any player's time in Frostpunk, they will quickly learn the importance and value of Hope. They will also likely learn how easily Hope is lost, and how that, in turn, can topple a civilization. There are plenty of things within the game that offer Hope, and plenty of things that take it away.

While all decisions have the potential to take Hope away from settlers, there are both permanent and temporary things that give them Hope. These are dependent upon events within the world, and structures. Events that are affected by the player's actions will have a temporary effect, while the structures players build in the society are permanent sources of Hope unless they fail. Here's how to increase settler Hope in Frostpunk.

How to Keep Hopes High in Frostpunk

There are a lot of difficult decisions players will have to make while playing through Frostpunk. Depending on the choices players make, society will be affected in both positive and negative ways. Generally, trying to make the most positive choices will help give the citizens Hope.

To avoid causing citizens to lose hope, players should avoid or limit the following events:

The death of a child or adult
Controversial law being passed
Citizens being frightened
Committing a forceful persuasion
A broken promise
A broken generator
Committing to an unpopular decision
Having a Watchmen or Cleric beaten
An upcoming Storm
A triage
The Fall of Winterhome

Sometimes, even when making the best decisions, players will still incur some smaller negative effects. Luckily, these are all temporary effects that can either be fixed or balanced with karma. To balance morale, players can try one of the activities that provide temporary Hope from the list below:

A desirable decision or law being passed
Having a child saved
Having a ceremonial service
Having evening prayers
Fulfilling a promise
Using propaganda flyers
Having a patrol
Having a sermon
Using public penance

While these activities can all be great to bring back some balance, the real way to win is to overcome negative morale using permanent positive morale. The only real way this can be achieved without constantly completing actions from the temporary Hope modifiers list is to build structures in the society for permanent change. Often, buildings for religious ceremonies or for security work best to permanently increase Hope. Other things that permanently increase a citizen's Hope can include any of the following: