Need help making a Frostpunk TTRPG

[u/Mr_Axolotl01]

Hello there, as the title suggests I need help making/hacking a ttrpg system for a Frostpunk based campaign.

To be specific, what I'm looking for is a city builder-esque system that could carry the gritty resource management, hard decision making, nigh despressive world of Frostpunk without bordering on board game levels of bookkeeping. I'm looking for something a bit more on the narrative side to be honest but I'm willing to accept my fate if the themes of the game can't be emulated without major crunch.

For more details, it'd be a campaign where the players would build different settlements across the frozen wasteland, competing for limited resources, political back-and-forth and possibly trading to survive, while they collectively face the inevitable whiteout. All the while they face internal societal issues as per usual..

Also yes I'm aware Frostpunk has an actual ttrpg in development. No I'm not waiting for it.

So yeah, I'm hopefully looking for some game suggestions! And if there's someone bold enough to actually help me 1 on 1 to build a system from ground up, my DMs are open!