This polar survival management sim is based on real historical horrors

In 2018 a show called The Terror, based on Dan Simmons' novel, told a fictionalized version of the Franklin expedition's doomed search for the northwest passage. Two ships were lost—one of which really was called HMS Terror, surely tempting fate—and their crews never found. The Terror took this true story of a struggle for survival in awful conditions and spiced it with supernatural horror. While I didn't mind the addition of a mystical murder bear, a lot of viewers liked the true-to-history parts so much they said they'd have preferred it without fictional horrors—just the real awfulness of cold, starvation, and lead poisoning from a bad batch of tinned rations...
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