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Cryostasis

2009 71 / 100 Adventure Puzzle Shooter
Year 1968. Arctic Circle, Russian North Pole station "Pole 21". The main hero Alexander Nesterov is a meteorologist accidentally caught inside an old nuclear ice-breaker North Wind, frozen in the ice desert many years ago. This steel creature once fought for its life and freedom, but it has fallen into an ice trap and all the creatures on its board lost not only their natural look, but a right to die. Cryostasis is a Show full summary

Year 1968. Arctic Circle, Russian North Pole station "Pole 21". The main hero Alexander Nesterov is a meteorologist accidentally caught inside an old nuclear ice-breaker North Wind, frozen in the ice desert many years ago. This steel creature once fought for its life and freedom, but it has fallen into an ice trap and all the creatures on its board lost not only their natural look, but a right to die. Cryostasis is a story about a drama of a Captain and his Ship evolving in the atmosphere of animal fear.

World design Linear GameplayExploration GameplaySurvival ExperienceChoices MoodHorror

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Year 1968. Arctic Circle, Russian North Pole station "Pole 21". The main hero Alexander Nesterov is a meteorologist accidentally caught inside an old nuclear ice-breaker North Wind, frozen in the ice desert many years ago. This steel creature once fought for its life and freedom, but it has fallen into an ice trap and all the creatures on its board lost not only their natural look, but a right to die. Cryostasis is a story about a drama of a Captain and his Ship evolving in the atmosphere of animal fear.

GameplayExploration GameplaySurvival ExperienceChoices MoodHorror GameplayCombat-focused GameplayPuzzles GenreAdventure GenrePuzzle GenreShooter ThemeAction ThemeHorror ThemeScience fiction
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ThemeSurvival Trait1980s Traitaction-adventure Traitaquarium Traitartificial intelligence Traitauto-saving Traitbacktracking Traitbeen here before Traitbetrayal Traitbloody Traitboss fight Traitbranching storyline Traitbrawler Traitbreaking through windows Traitchessboard Traitclose quarters combat Traitcontext sensitive Traitcorpse Traitcow Traitdarkness Traitdeath Traitdigital distribution Traitdoctor Traitdog Traitescaping imprisonment Traitexploration Traitflashback Traitgamersgate Traitgamingator Traitghostly manifestation Traitghosts Traithand-to-hand combat Traithelicopter Traithuman Traitice stage Traitisolation Traitjump scare moment Traitlinear gameplay Traitmale protagonist Traitmelee Traitmutants Traitno-reticle aiming Traitnon-linear storytelling Traitnon-player character Traitnonexistent light source Traitoutside of the map Traitpersistent enemy Traitplatform exclusive Traitpolar bear Traitpolygonal 3d Traitpsychological horror Traitquicksaving Traitragdoll physics Traitremoved from gog.com Traitremoved from steam Traitscripted events Traitsilent protagonist Traitsingle-player only Traitskippable gameplay Traitsleeping Traitsnow Traitsprinting mechanics Traitsteam Traitsurvival horror Traittime manipulation Traittime travel Traitvaluable garbage Traitvent crawling Traitvision obstruction Traitvoice acting Traitwasd movement

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Studio & publishing

Developer
Action Forms Ltd.
Publisher
505 Games, Aspyr Media, Zoo Corporation
Franchise
Standalone
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Spielprofil

Modi
Single player
Perspective
First person
Themes
Action, Horror, Science fiction, Survival
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Wo & wann

Platform releases

  • PC (Microsoft Windows) Feb 27, 2009
  • PC (Microsoft Windows) Oct 30, 2009
  • PC (Microsoft Windows) Apr 24, 2009
  • PC (Microsoft Windows) May 06, 2009

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