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GoldFire Studios · 2025 · Windows, macOS
Steam: 84 % positive of 334 reviews, as of Oct 28
A first-person narrative adventure set in the unforgiving Arctic. Your plane crashed in a storm, leaving only your court-mandated therapy bot for company as you journey to find your co-pilot and uncover the mysteries buried beneath the ice.
24 games that play like Arctic Awakening and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Firewatch, The Pale Beyond and Near Death.
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Plays and looks like Arctic Awakening
Close to it by gameplay and by look, so it appears in both lists below.
By gameplay
Plays like Arctic Awakening
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
Firewatch
89 % positive of 94,296
Shared: Story Rich · Mystery · Walking Simulator
The Pale Beyond
90 % positive of 1,914
Shared: Story Rich · Exploration · Choices Matter
Near Death
91 % positive of 1,014
Shared: Walking Simulator · Exploration · First-Person
Kona
82 % positive of 2,818
Shared: Story Rich · Walking Simulator · Exploration
The Long Dark
89 % positive of 110,973
Shared: Walking Simulator · Exploration · First-Person
SnowBot
89 % positive of 221
Shared: Mystery · Walking Simulator · Exploration
Kona II: Brume
80 % positive of 450
Shared: Story Rich · Mystery · Walking Simulator
Project Hailstorm
84 % positive of 707
Shared: Story Rich · Mystery · Walking Simulator
Distrust: Polar Survival
72 % positive of 1,770
Shared: Exploration · Sci-fi · Survival
INFRA
87 % positive of 3,505
Shared: Story Rich · Mystery · Walking Simulator
ROUTINE
91 % positive of 7,667
Once Alive
82 % positive of 418
Shared: Story Rich · Mystery · Walking Simulator
More matches
- The Uncertain: Last Quiet Day74 % positive of 1,683Shared: Story Rich · Walking Simulator · Sci-fi
- Amnesia: Rebirth76 % positive of 7,946Shared: Story Rich · Mystery · Exploration
- That Which Gave Chase90 % positive of 1,128Shared: Mystery · Walking Simulator · First-Person
- WILL: Follow The Light73 % positive of 564
- The Alien Cube79 % positive of 568Shared: Story Rich · Mystery · Walking Simulator
- Quern - Undying Thoughts90 % positive of 3,851Shared: Story Rich · Mystery · Walking Simulator
- The First Tree77 % positive of 4,783Shared: Story Rich · Mystery · Walking Simulator
- The Imagined Leviathan: Prologue77 % positive of 163Shared: Story Rich · Mystery · Walking Simulator
- ANGST: A TALE OF SURVIVAL84 % positive of 237Shared: Mystery · Exploration · Survival
- KRAMPEN94 % positive of 135Shared: Story Rich · Walking Simulator · Exploration
- Tacoma87 % positive of 3,117Shared: Story Rich · Mystery · Walking Simulator
- 35MM70 % positive of 3,520Shared: Story Rich · Walking Simulator · Exploration
By look
Looks like Arctic Awakening
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
Outer Wilds
94 % positive of 90,955
Risk of Rain 2
93 % positive of 242,449
Subnautica: Below Zero
90 % positive of 99,732
The Savior From Above
93 % positive of 382
The Planet Crafter
96 % positive of 69,754
ASTRONEER
90 % positive of 119,274
Landfall Archives
94 % positive of 3,706
Subnautica 2
90 % positive of 118,541
Breathedge
81 % positive of 14,877
Virtual Virtual Reality
91 % positive of 647
Content Warning
93 % positive of 73,115
Forever Skies
77 % positive of 8,206
More matches
- Journey94 % positive of 35,067
- Totally Accurate Battlegrounds87 % positive of 87,790
- Jusant92 % positive of 4,167
- SnowBot89 % positive of 221
- COCOON94 % positive of 8,091
- Vertigo 295 % positive of 2,590
- Vertigo Remastered91 % positive of 1,337
- Echo Point Nova96 % positive of 7,627
- Darwin Project81 % positive of 18,444
- After Us83 % positive of 413
- The Planet Crafter: Prologue95 % positive of 10,715
- Astrometica80 % positive of 2,951
At a glance
What games like Arctic Awakening have in common
- The tags they share most often with Arctic Awakening: Walking Simulator (18 of 24), Story Rich (16) and Mystery (14).
- They came out between 2016 and 2026, 2 of them after Arctic Awakening (2025).
- Best rated by Steam players: Near Death (91 % positive of 1,014).
How these matches work
Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.