CryoFall
Released Apr 2021
CryoFall is a sci-fi colony simulation survival game set on a forgotten planet in a distant future. Master technology, agriculture, trading, industry, cybernetics, exploration, and more!
78% positive · 6,454 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
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Evaluation
CryoFall launched into full release on April 29, 2021. After launch, AtomicTorch Studio shipped two major content updates: the R31 "Singleplayer Update" on October 8, 2021 (adding local/singleplayer support, an endgame rocket escape goal, and a new mech), and the R33 "Winter Update" on February 18, 2022 (adding a new Arctic biome, new monsters, and weapon skins). These were followed by a series of feature patches and bug fixes through mid-2022, with the last developer communication of any kind being the R33 Patch #1 on July 28, 2022.
The most recent developer news post, from March 23, 2026, is an announcement that AtomicTorch Studio has launched a new game — Cyberscape — in Early Access. This post explicitly points players of CryoFall toward the new title and contains no mention of any further content or updates planned for CryoFall. This is a strong signal that the studio has shifted its focus entirely to the new project.
All DLC items (the Soundtrack and Supporter Pack) were released in 2019. No unreleased DLC is listed. The two major post-launch updates established a content cadence, but the last major content drop was on February 18, 2022 — over four years ago — and the developer's own communications have redirected to their next game. With no announced future content, no unreleased DLC, a long silence on CryoFall specifically, and a clear studio pivot to Cyberscape, the game is best understood as a completed product. The content completion point was the R33 "Winter Update" on February 18, 2022, which was the last substantial addition to the game.
Evidence
AtomicTorch Studio announced their new game Cyberscape is now in Early Access, directing CryoFall players to try the new title. No mention of any future CryoFall content.
R33 'Winter Update' released, adding an Arctic biome, new monsters, and weapon skins. This is the last major content update shipped for CryoFall.
Content
2 of 2 released · no outstanding content
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Daedalic Entertainment
Achievements
52
Platform
Windows
Controller
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Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player · Multiplayer · Co-op · PvP
About this game
CryoFall is a sci-fi colony simulation survival game set on a forgotten planet in a distant future.
Join the vast world of CryoFall together with other survivors to rebuild your civilization from scratch. Start with primitive technology and simple tools and use them to progress towards modern industrial might and even beyond, eventually reaching space-age technology only seen in science fiction.
CryoFall can be played either as a relaxed PvE experience with no competition or as a brutal and unforgiving PvP. Make your choice and join one of many available servers with different game modes or host your own and invite your friends to join you!
Build your house or a large base together with other players. Dig wells and create farms to sustain basic needs. Build vehicles to explore the world faster. Establish basics of science, all the way from medicine and chemistry to fuel creation and even lithium extraction to create electronic devices. Cook food or prepare drinks to sell them from vending machines in your store.
Build factories to produce on an industrial scale: Weapons and defense systems, bionic implants to augment yourself, even large war machines and artillery guns to use against the biggest of opponents.
Start with a small house and expand it as you progress through the technological stages. First into a large base, then invite other players and create an entire city full of infrastructure, industrial machines, agricultural sectors, shops, and more.
Find rare seeds and create plantations of different crops. Use them to cook a variety of foods, each providing different effects to your character. And if it isn’t your thing - build large factories instead to produce a variety of items, refine petroleum to use as fuel for your vehicles, create weapons, defense equipment, and more.
Issue currency and establish trade around the map using automated vending machines that you configure to sell or buy anything, even when you are not around.
Previously a thriving colony, now a desolate land full of dangers. What happened to this planet? Explore far reaches of this world and find abandoned laboratories and factories left from the previous colonists. Cross deserts and tundras, tropical areas and swamps, oceans and volcanoes.
Build an electric grid for your base to enable complex industrial processes, defense installations, and other convenient technologies. Electricity starts with generators: steam, bioreactor, engine generator, solar, etc. Then you can store this energy in large capacitors and send it to many of your consumers from a simple induction furnace to a large psi-field projector to defend your base from intruders.
Try the complete version of the game for free for 8 hours by downloading the demo.
We are proud to offer you CryoFall to try completely free of charge because we are confident you will like it! Upgrade to full version any time if you enjoy the demo.
Join the vast world of CryoFall together with other survivors to rebuild your civilization from scratch. Start with primitive technology and simple tools and use them to progress towards modern industrial might and even beyond, eventually reaching space-age technology only seen in science fiction.
CryoFall can be played either as a relaxed PvE experience with no competition or as a brutal and unforgiving PvP. Make your choice and join one of many available servers with different game modes or host your own and invite your friends to join you!
Build your house or a large base together with other players. Dig wells and create farms to sustain basic needs. Build vehicles to explore the world faster. Establish basics of science, all the way from medicine and chemistry to fuel creation and even lithium extraction to create electronic devices. Cook food or prepare drinks to sell them from vending machines in your store.
Build factories to produce on an industrial scale: Weapons and defense systems, bionic implants to augment yourself, even large war machines and artillery guns to use against the biggest of opponents.
BUILD A HOUSE, BASE, OR A CITY!
Start with a small house and expand it as you progress through the technological stages. First into a large base, then invite other players and create an entire city full of infrastructure, industrial machines, agricultural sectors, shops, and more.
COMPLEX AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRY
Find rare seeds and create plantations of different crops. Use them to cook a variety of foods, each providing different effects to your character. And if it isn’t your thing - build large factories instead to produce a variety of items, refine petroleum to use as fuel for your vehicles, create weapons, defense equipment, and more.
PLAYER RUN ECONOMY

Issue currency and establish trade around the map using automated vending machines that you configure to sell or buy anything, even when you are not around.
CONQUER THE PLANET

Previously a thriving colony, now a desolate land full of dangers. What happened to this planet? Explore far reaches of this world and find abandoned laboratories and factories left from the previous colonists. Cross deserts and tundras, tropical areas and swamps, oceans and volcanoes.
ELECTRICITY

Build an electric grid for your base to enable complex industrial processes, defense installations, and other convenient technologies. Electricity starts with generators: steam, bioreactor, engine generator, solar, etc. Then you can store this energy in large capacitors and send it to many of your consumers from a simple induction furnace to a large psi-field projector to defend your base from intruders.
NOT SURE IF THIS GAME IS FOR YOU?
Try the complete version of the game for free for 8 hours by downloading the demo.
We are proud to offer you CryoFall to try completely free of charge because we are confident you will like it! Upgrade to full version any time if you enjoy the demo.
Game facts
- Complex crafting and industry, including oil refining & lithium extraction.
- Technology progression through the ages: primitive, industrial, modern, futuristic, sci-fi.
- Farming with crop growth simulation, fertilizers, irrigation, etc. & diverse cooking options.
- Electricity system with power grid simulation. Build generators, storage structures, and electricity consumers.
- Civilian and military vehicles to explore the world faster or use in combat.
- Bionic and cybernetic implants to augment your character with new abilities or to boost stats.
- Player-driven economy with currency issuance, complex trading and automated vending machines managed by players.
- Carefully hand-crafted game world (+ map editor).
- Diverse environments with several biomes (temperate, desert, tropical, boreal, wasteland, volcanic, etc.).
- Complex character simulation with a multitude of various effects and afflictions.
- Science! Chemistry, physics, medicine, and more.
- Meaningful player interactions with complex specialization options, rather than just mindless combat.
Technical
- Official and community-hosted PvE, PvP, and modded servers.
- Feature rich map editor.
- Extensive modding capabilities, including real-time code editing and open source game code.
- In-house developed Renkei Engine™, allowing hundreds of players on the same server.
Last evaluated Jun 27, 2026
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