The Frosts: First Ones Reviews
An adventure about searching for a missing hunter and meeting with alien beings! Explore wild nature, climb on a rock, lure out a boar, meet a wolf, survive in a rockfall. Heal a deer and trick a creature! Meet the Unknown and find mystery!
App ID | 1603860 |
App Type | GAME |
Developers | Ivan Sukhanov |
Publishers | Ivan Sukhanov |
Categories | Single-player, Steam Achievements, Full controller support |
Genres | Indie, Adventure |
Release Date | 31 Aug, 2021 |
Platforms | Windows |
Supported Languages | English, Spanish - Spain, Russian |

57 Total Reviews
51 Positive Reviews
6 Negative Reviews
Mostly Positive Score
The Frosts: First Ones has garnered a total of 57 reviews, with 51 positive reviews and 6 negative reviews, resulting in a ‘Mostly Positive’ overall score.
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Recent Steam Reviews
This section displays the 10 most recent Steam reviews for the game, showcasing a mix of player experiences and sentiments. Each review summary includes the total playtime along with the number of thumbs-up and thumbs-down reactions, clearly indicating the community's feedback
Playtime:
166 minutes
A great and atmospheric adventure in the winter forest. The player will have to hit the road, explore the area, decide how to get out of some situations, meet various characters who will lead the story and just survive. The game has amazing soundtrack that will completely immerse you in the story. A truly amazing and wonderful game!
👍 : 0 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
182 minutes
A very interesting and informative game, there is a plot, beautiful graphics, a lot of interesting points, and a lot of other pros, of the cons, the fact that it is not always clear where to go and the game cursor often merges with locations, I ask the developers to notice and take this into account, and in general, the game is excellent 9/10, I recommend everyone to play, especially since it costs not so much, about $1.
👍 : 0 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
140 minutes
A game worth the price. I agree what the other reviewers said that it's a walking simulator with good atmosphere and soundtrack. Some events need to trigger sequentially in order to gain achievements, like I found fox's den before finding the fox so I did not get that achievement. But yeah, its a great game.
👍 : 0 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
234 minutes
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Gameplay:
https://youtu.be/KwDpOKXIby0
Most of gameplay is spent exploring the game’s environments for items and talking to people in order to move the story forward.
It’s a walking simulator for the most part, sure, but it’s a cool.
The world and its characters are rendered in 3D with a retro aesthetic that gives game a lot of personality.
I can recommend it fans of story-based gaming experiences.
You won't find yourself challenged, but you’ll have a good time, find yourself enthralled and enjoying the atmosphere. It is a beautiful experience all the way through.
👍 : 17 |
😃 : 1
Positive
Playtime:
69 minutes
A very interesting adventure in a permafrost setting. You are a hunter who has to make your way through a winter forest full of dangers and find your lost comrade who wandered into the valley of spirits. Can you handle it?
Very nice winter forest atmosphere. A leisurely journey. But rather awkward controls. You never know where the hunter will pass without interference, and where he will get stuck and stay in place. And this is important to know when you have to run away from a wild boar or a bear.
In general, the game makes a very pleasant impression.
👍 : 2 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
308 minutes
A real good classic game. I'll start with my only complaint is that I wish that the description said this was more of a rich storyline or visual novel. The graphics are great! Speaking of storyline, I haven't play one that is similar to this game which is a nice take on this society. Though is is sort of linear play, its interesting to explore open ground.
Review at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dDPvqjXD6w
👍 : 1 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
379 minutes
Explore a scenic land of ever-winter looking for your missing friend in this interactive narrative.
I love the attention to nature in this game. As you hike though the beautiful and mysterious landscapes, animals will jump out and fly away. There were also descriptions for some of the plant life. It was cool.
The game play has a chill exploration vibe with a few events, challenges, and puzzles along the way. I struggled to know where to go at times, but eventually found my way. The environment was pretty to look at, so I didn't mind having to really explore to find my way.
This game has a short length, but a very reasonable price. If you like the idea of taking a nature hike though captivating environments while unraveling age old mysteries, give this game a shot!
👍 : 2 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
209 minutes
In The Frosts: First Ones, we need to find our friend and experienced hunter Hendrick.
The game itself is very beautiful and atmospheric. The musical accompaniment here is wonderful. The plot here is interesting, even there are puzzles. I can definitely say that the game should cost more than it is.
I recommend it!
👍 : 3 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
151 minutes
Bleh, no. There is next to nothing that was well done with this game and i am sad to say that i was not able to enjoy playing it at all. This is what i absolutely hated in my time with "the frosts: first ones"
- the graphics are meh. all environments are bland and boring, white or blue over white or blue. a handful of animals in an attempt to make it more interesting and alive. the character models all look the same, like ugly little fall guys knockoff characters
- controlls are meh. you can choose between keyboard and mouse for controls. both work to a degree but jumping is not well done and feels extremely laggy. in addition, the character will get stuck EVERYWHERE. that is not a huge problem normally but here you have a sequence where you have to flee and you'll get stuck on rocks, plants, invisible walls, other characters, everything
- the dialogue is brainless and boring. it is often used to describe feeling and actions but in such an emotionless way that it doesn't add anything of value to the game. the dialogue window is just bad, it keeps jumping over the screen and you have to click on "next" for the text to change, which makes the whole thing a constant tracking mission. it can also happen that the dialogue windows appear completely off screen (if you don't know that someone is about to talk and you have already walked away a bit). very annoying. even worse: your character stops walking when he starts to talk which is very frustrating because he will still move a few centimeters to each side but then just stop
- the gameplay is bland, boring and frustrating: you walk, read, try to get through dialogue, walk through a boring landscape, try to find whatever the game wants to to find (with a white indicator on mostly white screen, wow!), do some increadibly stupid clicking tasks where you are given no indication which option is the correct one, resulting in a trial-and-error kinda situation where you are desperately trying to keep track on the "correct" order.
this all would not have been too bad if the story was at least interesting. but it is not. it starts out very boring - a hunter trying to find his lost friend - then we are given a lead very quickly, stumble about until the story takes a quick turn and ends in a very absurd way. Never was there really any tension or mystery.
I got this game on sale for a bit more than 1 euro, spent 1 1/2 hours making my way through the story and can only recommend you don't try this for yourself. save your time and money for a game that is worth it.
👍 : 3 |
😃 : 0
Negative
Playtime:
163 minutes
You can finish The Frosts in under 2 hours.
You play as Berak in search of your hunter friend. You click and walk your way through the dialogue and the winter forest. Sadly the dialogue seems forced and the story contradicts itself pretty often. Berak mentions he has supplies for only 5 days, which means he has to find his friend in the next 2 days before heading back to his village. But instead of following his trail Berak stays one whole day contemplating how to climb that rock (he does nothing special btw, he just climbs it) and another day nursing a deer back to health.
Both the climbing and the care for the deer is done by clicking numbered hands on the screen with no indication on which number ist the right, you just have to know or try. Then you have collect 25 wood twice by looking around and searching for the white hands on the screen ... in the white snow. While you're moving like a damaged tank.
The story also lacks any kind of interesting features, it just gets confusing and boring throughout. I am a bit disappointed. It builds a mystery with no real explanation and just throws in dinosaus at one point (you will be chased by one for solid 5 minutes with the horrible moving speed). At the end you get some explanations but they're confusing and so dragged out I had to force myself to stay awake.
👍 : 3 |
😃 : 0
Negative