Welcome to the world of CryoFall, where a catastrophic crash landing has stranded you — and dozens of others — millions of light-years from home, trapped on a hostile planet and in constant danger. Your only hope for survival is to make use of the resources around you as you develop your skills and technology to conquer this new land, tame its harsh wilderness and build a new life for you and those who have found themselves marooned on CryoFall.

During your escape from your doomed homeworld, your convoy is thrown off course by a mysterious anomaly coming from an unknown nearby planet, drawing the ships into its atmosphere and forcing them to crash-land. You are one of those lucky enough to survive; but luck is a relative term. Left with absolutely nothing, alone, abandoned, afraid, and with no hope of escape in sight, your only choice is to find a way to survive the wilds of this new world. You must gather and make use of the resources at hand, build shelter, find food, water, and hopefully, other survivors, and come to terms with the fact that this is your new home.

But there is more to this planet than meets the eye — you were not the first to inhabit this it. There are many untold secrets left behind by ancient civilizations and those that followed to uncover — but only if you can survive long enough.

Featuring stunning 2D graphics that impart a unique handcrafted feel, CryoFall challenges you to explore new worlds while uncovering long-forgotten secrets and technologies, as you piece together the story of the planet’s long-lost citizens. In this tense, sci-fi survival RPG, you and other crash survivors must find ways to thrive on a harsh and unforgiving planet in order to build a functioning colony, starting small and working through a deep technology tree that will satisfy even the most hardcore of survival fans.

AtomicTorch Studio has poured countless hours of painstaking development to come up with the right in-house technology that drives the world of CryoFall — the RENKEI Engine. Empowered with it, hundreds of players can venture forth alone — or band together on the same server — to build bases, grow colonies, conquer neighboring territories and create powerful civilizations.

CryoFall has received a new Early Access content update introducing several new gameplay features, including:

• Vehicles! Players can now build, ride and battle on hoverboards, making traversing the world much easier.
• Players can also use the new Skipper battle mech (mechs available in PvP only).
• The introduction of female character models.
• A greatly expanded world map.
• A new AFK system, reducing players’ resource consumption while not playing.
• Improved onboarding features for new players.
• Tons of new items, crops, weapons, terrain types, in-game music and more.
• Major improvements to gunplay and ballistics, as well as a variety of balance updates and bug fixes based on community feedback.

Today’s update also adds a new CryoFall demo to Steam. Players can enjoy the game with no restrictions and complete access to all game features on the official servers for the demo’s duration, as well as upgrade to the full game if they choose.

In addition, players can now purchase the CryoFall Supporter Pack on Steam, featuring a variety of bonus goodies like the CryoFall soundtrack, concept art, in-game chat badge and more. These items are purely optional for players who wish to support the game and offer no direct gameplay advantages.

CryoFall is available now on Steam Early Access, priced at $19.99/£15.99/€19.99, with regular updates planned for the future.

Key Features:

• Complex crafting and industrial system, including oil refining and lithium extraction.
• Various stages of technological progress (primitive, industrial, modern, post-modern, sci-fi).
• Farming with complex crop growth simulation, fertilizers, etc., and diverse cooking options.
• Wide range of player interactions and roles with specialization options emphasizing meaningful interactions, rather than just combat.
• Fully functional economy simulation with coin minting, trading and automated vending machines managed by players.
• Carefully handcrafted maps and locations (plus map editor).
• Storyline elements discovered through exploration.
• Diverse environments with several biomes (temperate, desert, tropical, boreal, wasteland, etc.).
• In-house developed Renkei Engine™, allowing hundreds of players on the same server.
• Complex character simulation with several dozens of status effects (e.g., bleeding, poisoning, radiation, etc.).
• Extensive modding capabilities, including real-time code editing.