- Released
Apr 24, 2009
6,398 days ago- Platforms
- PC
- Ratings
Release dates
North America dates- May 6, 20096,386 days ago
- PC
- Apr 24, 20096,398 days ago
- PC
About
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.
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Reviews
Critics (IGDB)65/1005 reviews
IGDB players71/10052 ratings
Game info
Studios
Age ratings
- ESRBTViolence
- PEGI16Violence
Themes & tags
- Action
- Horror
- Science fiction
- Survival
- 1980s
- action-adventure
- aquarium
- artificial intelligence
- auto-saving
- backtracking
- been here before
- betrayal
- bloody
- boss fight
- branching storyline
- brawler
48 more tags
- breaking through windows
- chessboard
- close quarters combat
- context sensitive
- corpse
- cow
- darkness
- death
- digital distribution
- doctor
- dog
- escaping imprisonment
- exploration
- flashback
- gamersgate
- gamingator
- ghostly manifestation
- ghosts
- hand-to-hand combat
- helicopter
- human
- ice stage
- isolation
- jump scare moment
- linear gameplay
- male protagonist
- melee
- mutants
- nonexistent light source
- non-linear storytelling
- non-player character
- no-reticle aiming
- outside of the map
- persistent enemy
- platform exclusive
- polar bear
- polygonal 3d
- psychological horror
- quicksaving
- ragdoll physics
- removed from gog.com
- removed from steam
- scripted events
- silent protagonist
- single-player only
- skippable gameplay
- sleeping
- snow
Story & names
Also known as
- Анабиоз: Сон разумаRussian title
- Cryostasis: Arktyczny SenPolish title
- Cryostasis: The Sleep of ReasonAlternative title
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Where to find it
Data from IGDB and Steam. Critic scores from OpenCritic. Dates shown for North America, in your local time zone.







