A city buried under eternal frost wasn't enough. Now Frostpunk 2 players have a volcano to deal with.
11 bit studios revealed the second major expansion for its society survival strategy game during Frostpunk Franchise Fest 2026 on April 6. The DLC is called Breach of Trust, and it's landing on PC (Steam, Epic Games Store, GOG, and Windows), Xbox Series X/S, Xbox Game Pass, and PS5 on June 23, 2026.
A new city, a new kind of catastrophe
The base game put players in charge of a city fighting off a never-ending blizzard, 30 years after an apocalyptic freeze wiped out civilization. Breach of Trust shifts the setting entirely. Players will manage New Edinburgh, a city whose survival is threatened not by cold but by an actively erupting volcano.
Here's the thing: swapping the environmental threat from cold to volcanic activity isn't just a cosmetic change. The entire survival calculus shifts. Heat management, resource routing, and evacuation planning all take on new meaning when the danger is coming from below ground instead of above.
What's actually included in the expansion
The content list is substantial for a DLC. According to 11 bit studios, Breach of Trust adds:
- Five new factions and communities to negotiate with (or against)
- New environmental hazards tied to the volcanic setting
- Additional narrative events woven into the New Edinburgh storyline
- New gameplay mechanics specific to the expansion
- Five new buildings and hubs
- An independent colony as a separate management layer
- Two new scenarios
- Additional laws to pass through the Council Hall
The independent colony element is worth watching closely. The base game's faction system already made every Council vote feel like a political knife fight, and adding a colony that presumably operates outside the main city's authority could create some genuinely messy governance decisions.
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Breach of Trust is the second DLC for Frostpunk 2. The first expansion, Utopia Builder, launched earlier in the game's post-launch content roadmap.
Five new factions in the Council
The original Frostpunk is heading to Switch
Buried in the same announcement: the original Frostpunk is coming to Nintendo Switch. No release date was given, but the confirmation alone signals that 11 bit studios sees real value in expanding the franchise's reach to handheld players. Given how well the city-builder format translates to portable play, that's a port worth keeping an eye on.
What this means for players already deep in Frostpunk 2
For anyone who has already exhausted the base game's scenarios and the first DLC, Breach of Trust arrives with a meaningful content injection: a new city, a new threat type, two full scenarios, and enough new laws and factions to significantly change how a playthrough unfolds. The volcanic hazard in particular suggests the developers are deliberately designing around systems that don't exist anywhere else in the game yet.
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