CryoFall Reviews

This game is a hidden gem of survival crafts. It took me until writing this to realize its a few years old now. Never would have guessed. Its casual. I like that. The systems in this game are nice and there is a very nice depth of items, crafting, farming, buildings, skill tree, etc. If anything is wrong with this game (as of 15 hours in) is the map size. Its nothing crazy. I would call it small in the world of obnoxiously big empty/open world games.. but I still like it. There is enough danger and exploration for me... especially considering I tend to lean towards the resource farming, building, and tech tree expansion in most games like this. I also think the bones to this game is amazing. Its too bad as this game could really go places. I understand with the current/stable state leaving the game alone... but yall need to do a CryoFall2 and make this thing big. There is sooooo much potential for a CryoFall 2. If you're looking for a nice open world survival craft playthrough. This aint bad at all and im glad I have it in my library.

Seems unfinished, like it's in Beta or Early Access. It's fun for a few hours on your own, beyond that, you really should play with friends. If you don't have any or aren't the type to make friends very easily, well, PVE turns into a lonely grind, with other players (mostly soloists on asia server) becoming competitors for rare and consumable resources. I shudder to think of what the hostility is like on the PVP servers. MP aside, the game itself is... well.. bare. There's not much in it that isn't made by players. It's mainly an island of lots-of-the-same with a few varied terrain types and associated resources at various corners, but mostly it's trees and minor mobs that block your way and annoy your every journey. Unless you're in a mech. But even the lightest, fastest mech is slow. Much too slow. And no, you'll never have multi-weapon mechs. Every mech can only carry one weapon, and you'd have to exit it to switch (really not a good idea as it takes time, so doing so in the middle of a fight is nuts) Actually building a mech or hi-tech weapons require rare resources, namely gold, of which each bar requires 10 nuggets, which are like 1-2% drops on mining, which itself is a tedious process, even if you use drones (max 4 and they're slow) and suffer lower xp gains, or worse, use a pickaxe and have to hit every single rock you mine several times until it breaks and vanishes forever (rocks respawn randomly in the same terrain type eventually). Everything is slow. Getting around is slow, even with vehicles. Teching up is slow. Gathering materials and processing them stage by stage until you have what you need for buildings or equipment is slow. Oh, and equipment breaks too fast, IMO. That means you'll never keep what you make for long, whether it's food, gear or weapons. Everything is consumed. Repairs? Hah, you'd need to sacrifice two of the same type to repair it to one somewhat less damaged version of the same item. If you're soloing, you could make your own 'new world' and adjust difficulty and resource sliders to make it all smoother, but then again, you're really, really be grinding alone. I can't imagine taking on the bosses all by yourself even with the best (which really aren't great) weapons in the game. This game really needs... 1) Ways to get around quickly 2) Private instance dungeons so people don't journey all the way to a ruin only to find it already stripped bare and all their traveling wasted 3) NPC shops or settlements so that currency actually means something 4) Actual quests rather than just some tutorial line. 5) Clear info given in-game about mobs (def types, hp, locations, etc) and 'world events' (repeated every day, but we could really use some sort of schedule to know when what pops up). In short, if I'm to give my recommendation, it needs to be a game, not an empty sandbox.

Got this game to play with my wife and daughter. Honestly really fun so far, only played for about 4 hours, 2 with daughter and 2 solo, but really fun! Proof that 2D still has its place and can be just as fun as 3D with the right creators behind it. Game play is smooth, the various features such as world events, building, crafting and such are all well implemented, and polished. Worth the money!

If you are playing this game solo as a fan of things like Necesse/Keplerth then I wouldn't bother. As other reviews say this game "might" be fun multiplayer, but as a solo experience it's just a very grindy, directionless, sand-box game which feels like it belongs on a mobile device. If you are happy to just plod around with no real guidance and just cut trees/mine rocks then sure it could be ok, but it certainly is not a colony sim when you play solo.

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☑ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☑ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☑ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☑ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☑ 9 ☐ 10

I bought this game when it first released for me, my son and my nephew, we had hours of fun with this. It's a great co-op experience but I played plenty solo, nothing like rushing to the site of a meteor crash or a supply drop. It's on sale for a couple of bucks right now so jump on it for you and buy some copies for family and friends you won't regret it.

When I saw "Mixed reviews" I was cautios, but the big discount convinced me to buy. So, I have no idea why the game was downvoted to the ground. Playing solo is also feaseble, but clearly the game is multiplayer oritented. I wouldn't say that the game is about grind, it's more about exploration and discovering research tree. Exactly what I like. Only one downside so far - mobs are stupid as rock. Zero path-finding capabilities. It makers them easy target and you can run away from them, but in 2025 this is weird to see.

It's unfathomable to me how some people paid 20€/$ considering the current state of the game. It's incredibly grindy and hard to get into on your own if you don't have friends to play with. The in-game UI is basically a faithful copy of the mobile game Last Day On Earth, and the menu is too common and lazily designed, like in many other games. Overall, it's not so bad if you have 1-2 friends to play with for maybe 20-30 hours.

This game is a colony sim if you have friends. If you don't then it's just a survival game. There are no pawns to control nor to recruit like in other colony sims. A suggestion for the developers: adding NPC pawns and factions for solo players would make the game way better. Until then, I can’t recommend this game, as I bought it expecting a colony simulator or at least something similar to Necesse.

In order for this game to be fun: 1. You need friends. 2. Don't be afraid to double or triple the resource sliders to reduce the insane grind so you can enjoy the better aspects of the game(like combat and raiding).