History VideoGame / FalloutFrost

It's 2082, and post-nuclear-war Boston is, well, [[RunningGagged not an okay place to live]]. The nuclear winter and atmospheric radiation have forced most people to live underground, in basements and subway tunnels. The surface world is overrun by ghouls, mutants, insane survivors and... [[EldritchAbomination darker things]]. Food, water and supplies are extremely scarce, and your psyche itself may be damaged by the horrific things you do or witness. Although there is plenty of new lore scattered around, you have no grand goal, no special mission. All you can do is see how long you can survive in this new hellish world... [[NintendoHard if you can]].

It's 2082, and post-nuclear-war Boston is... [[RunningGagged not an okay place to live]]. The nuclear winter and atmospheric radiation have forced most people to live underground, in basements and subway tunnels. The surface world is overrun by ghouls, mutants, insane survivors and... [[EldritchAbomination darker things]]. Food, water and supplies are extremely scarce, and your psyche itself may be damaged by the horrific things you do or witness. Although there is plenty of new lore scattered around, you have no grand goal, no special mission. All you can do is see how long you can survive in this new hellish world... [[NintendoHard if you can]].

It's 2082-ish, and post-nuclear-war Boston is... [[RunningGagged not an okay place to live]]. The nuclear winter and atmospheric radiation have forced most people to live underground, in basements and subway tunnels. The surface world is overrun by ghouls, mutants, insane survivors and... [[EldritchAbomination darker things]]. Food, water and supplies are extremely scarce, and your psyche itself may be damaged by the horrific things you do or witness. Although there is plenty of new lore scattered around, you have no grand goal, no special mission. All you can do is see how long you can survive in this new hellish world... [[NintendoHard if you can]].

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Atreus Finch, the leader of the Maldenmen, is one of the only characters in the entire mod to have a suit of Power Armor (though admittedly, his is made up of Raider Power Armor, but ''still'').

* SpiritualSuccessor: Rather obviously, it's one to ''Fallout: Dust''.

''[[http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/18898/ Fallout: FROST Survival Simulator]]'' is a GameMod (currently still in Alpha, and the creator plans to further expand upon it in the future) for ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' that can be best described as ''Fallout 4'' [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] ''VideoGame/DayZ'' without any actual zombies and a few elements cribbed from both ''VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent'' and ''VideoGame/Metro2033'' for flavor. And if ''that'' whole turn of phrase sounds a bit familiar, that's because this mod is a SpiritualSuccessor (right down to being created by the same mod author) of the popular ''Fallout: New Vegas'' mod ''VideoGame/FalloutDust''. Set only a few years after the Great War, you play as some hapless survivor wandering around the Commonwealth as the nuclear winter sets in. All you can do is see how long you can survive in this new hellish world... [[NintendoHard if you can]].

* INeedAFreakingDrink: Most of the items for restoring Sanity are alcoholic beverages, implying that the PlayerCharacter is more DrowningTheirSorrows than anything else in terms of "regaining" Sanity.

* DeathWorld: The Commonwealth Wasteland, though [[spoiler:Mount Desert Island]] turns this UpToEleven.

* NintendoHard: [[UpToEleven Than even]] ''Dust'', since this mod uses Survival Mode from the base game of ''Fallout 4'' (which '''already''' made the game incredibly tough), and then places the PlayerCharacter in a far more hellish DeathWorld than anywhere else yet seen in the entire franchise.

** [[spoiler:[=C.I.T.=] (the Commonwealth Institute of Technology). While the base game doesn't exactly paint them as saints either (what with them testing [=FEV=] on poor Edgar Swann), their treatment of their former coworker Dr. Ernest Flemmel is pretty galling, especially in how they basically use him as a glorified lab rat after he's sent to Parsons State Insane Asylum after he goes mad]].

* {{Expy}}: [[spoiler: Ithaqua turns out to be one of Swan from ''Fallout 4''. Both are terrifying mutants that are the result of experiments performed by scientists related to [=C.I.T.=] who were exposed to FEV and have since been let loose to ravage the Commonwealth (though Ithaqua's escape was actually an accident on behalf of Parsons State Insane Asylum)]].

* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler: Lorenzo Cabot. He's been psychically manipulating the Maldenmen, haunting them in their dreams and driving them to acts of ritualistic slaughter so as to goad them into freeing him from his prison. He also drove Dr. Ernest Flemmel into becoming the savage monster Ithaqua so as to further aid the Maldenmen in freeing him, and even influenced the [=C.I.T.=] scientists at Parsons to further experiment on Flemmel so as to make him both more dangerous and more of a useful pawn in his schemes. It's also implied that he drove the Metro Federation's leader Marchand insane, making him become a cruel tyrant who instigated the current bloody war with the Metro Alliance]].
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Lorenzo Cabot]]'s mental tinkering of the major players of the Commonwealth Wasteland actually worked too well. The goal was merely to [[spoiler: break their minds to the point they'd free him from the asylum]]. Instead, it just [[MindRape broke their minds]]. Rather than form an army that could [[spoiler: liberate him]], he formed multiple armies that warred against each other and ignored him.

* HumanoidAbomination: Ithaqua, "the Angel of Malden." At first glance, it resembles a [[spoiler:Deathclaw wearing a deer skull]], but has far less bulk and is only slightly taller than the average human. It's also MadeOfIron to an incredible degree, and its mere presence [[spoiler:leaves one open to the corrupting influence of Lorenzo Cabot]].

* LaserGuidedKarma: The Metro Federation soldiers who massacred the innocent Ghoul residents sheltering below Boston Public Airport were then assaulted by a massive swarm of Feral Ghouls attracted to the scent of corpses and subsequently DevouredByTheHorde.

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Ithaqua, which despite [[spoiler:having once been a human subjected to nightmarish experiments]], is increasingly implied to have been turned into a {{Wendigo}} in all but name.

* {{Prequel}}: It's set only a few years after The Great War, placing it before any of the Fallout games.

* DreamWorld: The first quest in the game - "The Beginning of Things" - takes place in one. Depending on which door you select at the end of it will deposit you at a different location across the Commonwealth.

** They're also one to The Wendigo from the predecessor mod ''[[VideoGame/FalloutDUST Dust]]''; both being violent abominations created by unstable mutations painted by their native games as TheDreaded. Unlike The Wendigo however, Ithaqua is very much mortal.

* ForegoneConclusion: As he's still incarcerated during ''Fallout 4,'' it's safe to assume [[spoiler: Lorenzo Cabot]]'s efforts to [[spoiler: psychically influence the local factions into liberating him from Parsons Insane Aslyum]] don't pan out.

* ForegoneConclusion: Lorenzo Cabot's efforts to [[spoiler: psychically influence the local factions into liberating him from Parsons]] don't pan out.

** [[spoiler:The bands of Hunters on Mount Desert Island are pretty obviously predecessors to the Trappers, right down to both groups being cannibals driven mad by the Fog]].
* CrapsackWorld: The Commonwealth. The safest regions on the surface are under the "protection" of the trigger-happy remnants of the [=US=] Army while the wilderness is full of dangerous mutated wildlife, ferocious hordes of Feral Ghouls, wandering bands of cannibalistic hunters, and a bloody war fought between ''two'' different xenophobic cults. The subway system is only a ''little'' better, being mostly a dingy ruin full of Feral Ghouls and an ugly conflict being waged between the Metro Federation & Metro Alliance. [[spoiler:Mount Desert Island, from the ''Far Harbor'' [=DLC=], is ''even worse'', with there being even '''more''' cannibalistic hunters there along with a toxic FogOfDoom that slowly drives anyone inside of it insane]].

* {{Expy}}: [[spoiler:Ithaqua turns out to be one of Swan from ''Fallout 4''. Both are terrifying mutants that are the result of experiments performed by scientists related to [=C.I.T.=] who were exposed to FEV and have since been let loose to ravage the Commonwealth (though Ithaqua's escape was actually an accident on behalf of Parsons State Insane Asylum)]].

* FogOfDoom: Both the Commonwealth and [[spoiler:Mount Desert Island]] sport this, though the latter actively drives those inside of it mad.

* GoneHorriblyWrong: [[spoiler:Dr. Ernest Flemmel first signed up for the experiment that would eventually turn him into the rampaging Ithaqua since he thought it could reverse his early-onset dementia along with granting him immortality. Instead, it drove him to madness to the point where he's become a savage maniac under the influence of Lorenzo Cabot and the Maldenmen]].
* GoneMadFromTheRevelation: Most of the Maldenmen have completely lost their minds thanks to [[spoiler:Lorenzo Cabot whispering to them in their dreams]].
* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:Lorenzo Cabot. He's been psychically manipulating the Maldenmen, haunting them in their dreams and driving them to acts of ritualistic slaughter so as to goad them into freeing him from his prison. He also drove Dr. Ernest Flemmel into becoming the savage monster Ithaqua so as to further aid the Maldenmen in freeing him, and even influenced the [=C.I.T.=] scientists at Parsons to further experiment on Flemmel so as to make him both more dangerous and more of a useful pawn in his schemes. It's also implied that he drove the Metro Federation's leader Marchand insane, making him become a cruel tyrant who instigated the current bloody war with the Metro Alliance]].

* EliteMooks: The Maldenmen. They have pretty durable armor in comparison to most other enemies aside from the [=US=] Army Remnants, and make up for their lack of high-quality firearms by being experts in melee combat.

An official trailer can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adrcJpyGUJk here]].