Cryo

Cryo is a cooperative survival horror game for 1–4 players, set in isolated facilities across the frozen wastes of Antarctica. You and your team are technicians working for ANGENEX, a genetics corporation with research sites throughout the Antarctic Circle. Sent to restore communications, repair systems and recover research, you arrive at abandoned facilities where equipment is failing and mutated creatures are hunting. You must complete your assignment and find a way out, though some escape routes cannot carry everyone.

The missions

Each location has primary objectives to complete before your team can escape. You restore damaged systems, find missing equipment, repair machinery, solve puzzles and explore dangerous areas to bring abandoned ANGENEX facilities back online. Objectives can change between deployments, sending your team to different areas and changing how you approach familiar places.

Every map has multiple possible escape routes. Getting them operational may require more equipment, repairs or exploration; some routes are safer, some are faster, and some have limited capacity. The deeper you go into a facility, the greater the risk.

Creatures and survival

Mutated creatures hunt in different ways. Some pursue you with brute force, while others stalk from the shadows, investigate disturbances or use their surroundings to approach unnoticed. Their advanced AI reacts to movement, sound and environmental cues, so you need to learn how each creature perceives the world and adapt your approach. Tactics that work against one may fail against another, and what kept you alive on one deployment may get you killed on the next.

Antarctica brings its own dangers: freezing temperatures, hazardous environments, damaged machinery and failing equipment can turn a simple objective into a fight to survive. Plan before leaving safety, keep vital systems running and choose your route carefully. You can crouch to move quietly, hide in lockers and use the environment to break a creature's line of sight, but hiding is not always enough.

Tools and teamwork

You cannot always fight what is hunting you. Cameras let you monitor dangerous areas, motion detectors track movement, and music players create distractions; other specialist equipment can also give your team an advantage. You search for supplies, restore vital equipment, share resources, coordinate repairs and warn one another when danger approaches.

Cryo supports cooperative play for 1–4 players and can also be played solo. Splitting up can help you complete objectives faster, but leaves you without teammates nearby. Communication, teamwork and quick thinking can determine whether you escape safely.

Changing deployments

Each deployment brings uncertainty: the creature can change, objectives are selected and altered, equipment appears in different places, and escape options may vary. Items are placed in plausible locations, including cupboards, drawers, storage areas, offices and locked rooms. Knowing the map helps, but you cannot know exactly what will happen.

Locations and difficulty

ANGENEX assignments take you to isolated research facilities, underground installations, industrial environments and vessels stranded in Antarctic waters. Each location has its own layout, objectives, hazards, systems, escape methods and story about what happened before you arrived.

Multiple difficulty options cater to casual groups and players seeking a harsher challenge. Higher difficulties make useful items less available and the creatures more dangerous and intelligent, making resources scarcer and mistakes more costly.