Permafrost

About the game

After a chain of disasters ending with the moon shattering, a near-future Earth is stuck in endless winter. Permafrost, by SpaceRocket Games, is a grounded, story-driven open-world survival game where you play a Rook: an engineer who knows how to rebuild but has little wilderness experience, pulled into the frozen world by a radio signal from a long-lost friend. You explore frozen cities and the wilderness beyond, cross faction-controlled territory, hunt, scavenge, craft and build up a network of shelters. The cold drives everything. Frostbite, storms and creeping chill make preparation, shelter and timing a matter of life and death, and the focus is on silence and scarcity rather than constant gunfire. Progress comes from restoring abandoned shelters, repairing broken machines and reclaiming fragile technology. A dog you rescue from the ruins scouts ahead, warns of danger and carries supplies. You can play solo or with up to three friends, splitting tasks and building the shelter network together.