Cut off from all external communications, surrounded by icy tundra, and covered in a thick blanket of paranoia and suspicion, the eight-person multiplayer game strands players in the freezing wilderness where they must work together to escape the approaching blizzard as well as the deathly intentions of fellow team members.

The survivors must battle against the freezing elements as well as the traitors in their midst who will deceive, sabotage, and even commit murder to thwart their teammates’ efforts to escape. For the players that encounter wild animals or murderous teammates on their travels, there’s a variety of weapons they can use to gain the upper hand and cling desperately to any chance of survival. 

Communication and teamwork are essential to Survivors’ ultimate goal of escape. You’ll discover secret traitors within the group who steadily gain strength as the match progresses.

Project Winter celebrates four years of traitorous tricks throughout the tainted tundra as well as exceeding more than three million units sold today.

This weekend, anyone can join the community for free starting Wednesday, May 24 at 10:00 AM PDT up until Monday, May 29 on PC via Steam.

Over the past four years, millions of matches have been completed, with even more sneaky and messy murders pulled off, as well as billions of miles walked across the iciest of maps. One player alone has walked 531,634 total kilometers! That is enough to walk around the world more than 13 times!

“Just last year we were celebrating more than two and a half million players, and now three million activations? Never in our wildest dreams did we think this would be possible,” said Ryan Hale, Product Director of Other Ocean. “The support we continue to receive from our community is unlike anything the team has seen before. We are dedicated to not only continuing updates for Project Winter, but also implementing the last four years of feedback into our future projects that we can’t wait to reveal soon. Thank you all!”

Key Features

• Escape to Survive - As a survivor among a group of strangers, you will have to collect resources, battle the elements and complete a series of tasks to call in one of several rescue vehicles.
• Hidden Roles - Among the group of survivors lurk hidden traitors. The traitors are known to each other but not the survivors. Their goal is to stop the survivors from escaping without being identified and killed.
• Teamwork - Survivors cannot escape unless they work together. Players who wander off on their own will have difficulty surviving the elements, can fall victim to hostile wildlife, or become easy targets for the traitors.
• Communication - There are several ways to communicate with other players, including proximity-based voice chat, private voice chat radio channels, text chat, and emotes - communication is vital if the survivors have any hope of completing their tasks and defending against the traitors.
• Betrayal & Deception - The traitors are outnumbered and weak when the game begins, they may infiltrate the survivors and earn their trust while they build up their strength. Survivors can never be 100% sure of who to trust. The traitors can take advantage of this by spreading lies and setting the survivors against each other.

Project Winter is available for Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Steam, Humble Bundle, and Greenman Gaming) for $9.99.