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.
Swapping the environmental threat from cold to volcanic activity changes the entire survival equation. Heat management, resource routing, and evacuation planning all work differently when the danger rises from below ground instead of falling from above.
What's actually included in the expansion
The DLC packs a substantial content list. 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 stands out. The base game's faction system already made every Council vote feel like a political knife fight. Adding a colony that operates outside the main city's authority could create genuinely messy governance decisions.
Five new factions in the Council
The original Frostpunk is heading to Switch
The same announcement confirmed the original Frostpunk is coming to Nintendo Switch. No release date was given, but the confirmation signals that 11 bit studios sees real value in expanding the franchise's reach to handheld players. The city-builder format translates well to portable play, so this port is worth watching.
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 delivers 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 suggests the developers are deliberately designing around systems that don't exist anywhere else in the game yet.
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