Frost on the skin: games for winter lovers
Not everyone wants to bask in a cozy apartment in winter. Someone likes the romance of snowy wastelands and extreme temperatures. In this collection of "Izvestia" there are excellent games from different years in which you can feel like a brave explorer of the North and challenge the snow elements.
Frostpunk, Frostpunk 2
Genre: urban planning simulator, survival
Release year: 2018, 2024
What to play on: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S
In Frostpunk, cold is the main enemy. It ranges from mild coolness to deadly frost and can reach -150°C during a catastrophic Great Storm. To cope with it, players need to carefully manage the heating of their city, conserve heat and allocate resources wisely to prevent illness and death of the population. At the lowest temperatures, residents become seriously ill and frostbite their limbs. In the first part of the game, the cold acts as a timer and increases as the player progresses, while in Frostpunk 2, the weather is dynamic and constantly throws up unpleasant surprises and challenges.
The Long Dark
Genre: Survival
Release year: 2017
What to play on: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
In the story mode, The Long Dark tells the story of two heroes who crash in the frozen Canadian wilderness after a geomagnetic storm that disabled their plane. Trapped in the icy tundra, players must find a way to survive by switching between two characters, each with their own characteristics. The survival mode significantly raises the stakes: the game has different difficulty levels that determine how difficult the escape route will be. To withstand cold, hunger, thirst, lack of sleep and avoid encountering predators, players will have to awaken their primitive instincts and use all the skills of survival in the wild.
Cryostasis
Genre: Horror, Adventure
Release year: 2008
What to play on: PC
A half-forgotten, but solid action-horror created in the CIS in the early 2000s. 1981-the year, the Arctic Circle. Meteorologist Alexander Nesterov leaves his solitary duty at the Polyus-21 station. But instead of returning home, the hero is faced with a nightmare in the middle of the ice on board a ghost icebreaker. Alexander must solve the mystery of the death of the captain and crew and escape from the ship, forever buried in the permafrost.
Fahrenheit
Genre: action, adventure
Release year: 2005
What to play on: PC, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 4, Xbox, Xbox 360
The plot of the game tells about a bank employee Lucas Kane, who commits a murder in a trance, and then tries to figure out what is happening to him, hiding from two detectives. The cold in Fahrenheit acts as a decoration and atmospheric psychological device. The gloomy New York winter, unfriendly alleys and cold streets reflect the inner state of the characters, the chaos in their souls and the loss of the paranormal.
Wildfrost
Genre: card roglight
Release year: 2023
What to play on: PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch
The world is shrouded in eternal cold called Wild Frost, and the last survivors go to the town of Snowdwell to assemble a team of heroes and try to get to the source of the curse, stop the endless winter and return the world to warmth. This card roglight offers a generous reward system, giving players plenty of opportunities to customize their current deck. This creates a perfect balance between deck building and fights.
The Thing
Genre: Shooter, Horror
Release year: 2002, remaster 2024
What to play on: PC, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch
The 2002 shooter based on the cult horror of 1982 returned last year in a remaster from Nightdive Studio. After the events of the film, a rescue team led by Captain Blake arrives at the Arctic station — and also comes face to face with an alien parasite.
Nightdive Studios has updated the game using its own KEX engine, added support for 4K resolution, high frame rates up to 144 FPS and modern anti-aliasing technology.
This War of Mine
Genre: Survival simulator
Release year: 2014
What to play on: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch
Before the iconic Frostpunk, 11 Bit Studio became famous for a much more restrained, but no less visionary game about survival in a harsh winter. This War of Mine is a war story told by its victims. During the day, the heroes hide in the shelter, repair it, cook food, create tools and heal wounds. At night, someone from the team goes out on a sortie to look for resources: food, medicines, materials. In winter, the temperature in the shelter drops, and without heating, the characters begin to get sick, get tired faster, and die. To survive, you need to store fuel, keep the furnace running, and be careful when outing for resources.
The Lost Planet Series
Genre: Shooter
Release year: first in 2006
What to play on: PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
A series of sci-fi shooters set on the icy planet E.D.N. III. Here, humanity is trying to survive and colonize a world inhabited by aggressive alien fauna — insect-like Locusts. The plot of all the games in the series focuses on the fight against extreme climate, corporate wars and the search for the vital substance T-ENG, which allows technology to work in deadly cold.
The Pale Beyond
Genre: Survival
Release year: 2023
What to play on: PC, Nintendo Switch
It has been five years since the expedition on the sailing ship "Viscount" set off through the White Passage in search of the south magnetic pole and disappeared into the eternal ice. The player sails in search of her at the head of the ship "Temperance". As the expedition progresses and the polar winter sets in, any choice has an impact on the plot, supplies will have to be distributed wisely, and the morale of the team will have to be maintained so that a riot does not break out.
Subnautica: Below Zero
Genre: adventure, survival
Release year: 2021
What to play on: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch
The continuation of the underwater adventure on the alien world 4546B — in its Arctic region. This Subnautica chapter invites players to explore the icy depths and encounter flora and fauna that prefer temperatures below 0.
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