When did Cryostasis come out?

Cryostasis was released on 27 February 2009 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

Cryostasis (2009) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Cryostasis

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…

65 27 February 2009

What Cryostasis is

Cryostasis is an adventure game developed by Action Forms Ltd. and released in 2009. It was published by 505 Games. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on AtmosFear.

The premise, in the publisher's words

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.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror, science fiction and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Cryostasis holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 24% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 2 points below the year average. Players rate it 71, 6 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

What it launched against

Cryostasis launched on 27 February 2009, within three weeks of Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Resident Evil 5, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned and Killzone 2. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Resident Evil 5, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned, Killzone 2.

Cheats and codes

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