The Frostpunk 2 release date trailer is here, along with two ways to play the survival city builder before launch-

Frostpunk 2 finally has a release date, and I hope your bathing suit is insulated because things are gonna get pretty chilly this summer: the survival city builder sequel is coming July 25.

A new trailer released today during the Xbox Showcase not only delivered the launch date but gave us a look at the surprisingly massive frozen city we’ll be managing, a brief glimpse of the factions contending for power, and showed how the city will expand into new areas via “frostbreaking”—which involves sending enormous ice-cutting machines out onto the frozen tundra. Have a look:

If you just can’t wait until July 25 to play Frostpunk 2, you’ve got a few options provided you don’t mind spending money before the game is released. You probably remember last year the trend was to give players who preordered a game access a few days earlier if they preordered: Starfield, Modern Warfare 3, and Hogwart’s Legacy all did it. 

Frostpunk 2 is taking a slightly weirder approac…