74
Design flaws and the game's tendency to wax philosophical do not distract from the core idea and its stylish execution. This is what Vivisector, Action Forms' previous project, should have been like.
60
Cryostasis is a brave, fascinating, often very beautiful game, but I find it impossible to recommend it - and not least because it runs like an exploded dog on most PCs. It's not quite creative enough - its environments fall into a monotony of samey rooms and bulkheads - and its combat is too clunky to be delicious.
70
Cryostasis is a kind of revelation in the horror genre where you can alter the past to change the present. Game excels in visuals but lacks in combat system. [Feb 2009]
10
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
8
I had never had a game fight me so hard to play it this game crashed all the time and I tipped out of the game it creased. I could tap out two times and then it will crash the third time I tapped out of the game. But the game is really unique you have a walk cycle That is the slowest I have played in a while, but the combat and the experience of learning what happened to the Ship and the crew and captain that went crazy is amazing. And the health system is genius. I love how it is combined with heat. So you have two look for lambs and Soviet wood that has smolded in forever to get health back. I really like the graphic the way you could see the snow on the wall forming into snow crystals looked really good even if I thought there was too little clutter. So it looks really bare, but maybe soviets just looked like that one almost nothing in them. My criticisms are the game crashes all the time this has almost no replay value and the walking is so slow, but I really enjoyed this game nonetheless.
7
Игра оказалась довольно уникальной, после прохождения оставляет то самое "странное чувство". Сюжет- интерпретация Старухи Изергиль, так же есть другие аллегории. Конечно местами пахнет бредятиной, но нарратив в игре хороший. Приятная и атмосферная игра, которая запомнится мне надолго.
Cryostasis: The Sleep of Reason
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Apr 24, 2009
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Mixed or Average
69
User score
Generally Favorable
7.8
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85
Cryostasis is just a few short steps away from being a video gaming Mona Lisa, and it's still easily an experience worth having.
80
Old-style gameplay for a new and fresh graphical adventure. The solid plot is linked with a serious reflection about human nature, and in this standardized videogame market, Cryostasis shines.
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Oct 28, 2013
10
Only 69/100 from officials? This is highly underrated pc game. Very weird and unique stuff. Story is very good and end of the game is quite epic. Visual effects are cool and well used. Bad things are the usual, monotonous fights and no secrets at all; lack of extras in gameplay. But as said, this is very weird and unique game, in a good way.
80
Recommended for FPS horror fans, although the environments are by definition a tad repetitive. [May 2009, p.72]
74
Design flaws and the game's tendency to wax philosophical do not distract from the core idea and its stylish execution. This is what Vivisector, Action Forms' previous project, should have been like.
69
Cryostasis is not a game for everyone. It's a game the player has to play from the start until the end to understand it. It's slow and fast at the same time, anachronistic and futuristic in many aspects of the gameplay. It's too linear but so fascinating in the plot. For sure it leaves something in the brain of the player. But usually it's a negative feeling.
60
Cryostasis is a brave, fascinating, often very beautiful game, but I find it impossible to recommend it - and not least because it runs like an exploded dog on most PCs. It's not quite creative enough - its environments fall into a monotony of samey rooms and bulkheads - and its combat is too clunky to be delicious.
40
Snail-paced frozen nonsense. [Apr 2009, p.66]
Jul 3, 2013
10
Ukrainian developers have created an amazing atmosphere of his game. Cold, loneliness, fear all this has to overcome the main character, his way with a team of merchant ships, which led to the catastrophe. Separately deserves graphics in the game even now she is amazing. There's the real physics of water, which is not present in a single match. Bravo and thanks to the developers for the high quality of the game.
May 3, 2023
7
Игра оказалась довольно уникальной, после прохождения оставляет то самое "странное чувство". Сюжет- интерпретация Старухи Изергиль, так же есть другие аллегории. Конечно местами пахнет бредятиной, но нарратив в игре хороший. Приятная и атмосферная игра, которая запомнится мне надолго.
Aug 28, 2022
7
The main idea and the atmosphere are perfect, but gameplay is too boring for 2022
Aug 12, 2013
3
Omg. Finally its over. Im so happy that i got it from a cheap bundle. In level 7 i had enough and i started to use god mode cheat. The melee weapons (especially fire axe) are soon useless for fighting enemies. Axe swing will disorient you so much that u are pretty helpless against faster enemies. Both Mosin rifles are EPIC fails. Reloading time is like 20+ minutes...reloading time and inefficiency is a BIG problem also with other firearms. And that folk-story wtf was with **** exactly should that fit in with the main plot? AND WHY AM I LOSING HEALTH WHEN I LISTEN THAT DAMN FOLK-STORY U idiots! So yes, this game got very fast boring and frustrating. Im very disappointed.
Dec 20, 2012
3
This game has: One pretend deep plot, a dozen frames per second graphics performance, a few gross of grey rooms, grey doors with big rotary handles and grey crewmen-turned-zombies, three clumsy melee weapons, dull puzzles that don't give much of a challenge, but rather force you to redo them until you guess what you are supposed to do. Note - it's not "How do I do this and that?", it's "What the love am I supposed to do here?!". Example - one puzzle features a crewman dead in a chair in front of a broken window. His chest is full of glass shards. You possess him and... five seconds later you hear a siren blaring, twenty seconds later you hear (or even see) the glass break, then you see a failure screen. You can exit the room, you can enter another one, but it won't matter. Have fun guessing what the problem is. This game doesn't have: a point where it becomes interesting, a point where it actually starts making sense, a point where the story told by the sketches becomes somehow relevant to the ship's story. Also there's the heat-as-health mechanic, which is as innovative as it is idiotic. Because, somehow, warming your hands at a lightbulb helps you survive a few more hits from a fireman's axe.
SummaryCryostasis takes place in 1981 on a nuclear ice breaker called the North Wind, which has become shipwrecked near the North Pole. The main character, Alexander Nesterov is a Russian meteorologist who must investigate what happened onboard the ship. But he’s not alone and the North Wind is now plagued by dead crewmen who have undergone a b... Read More
Rated Tfor Teen
