- Publisher: GoldFire Studios
- Release Date: Sep 18, 2025
- Also On: PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X
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Sep 17, 2025Arctic Awakening starts with a captivating mystery, but fails to stick the landing. The poorly developed story, lacklustre voice acting, and technical issues let down its potential.
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Sep 22, 2025Arctic Awakening’s intriguing premise is quickly buried under a slushy heap of mediocrity. Its mystery is undercut by poorly conceived writing, the character dynamics and performances leave you colder than its wintry landscapes and whatever visual beauty that can be found in its intermittent spectacle is often dashed by raw survival mechanics and sluggish pacing. In more assured hands, this could have been a familiar yet effective 4-5 hour narrative adventure, but in its current state, you’d best leave it buried in the snow.
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Sep 23, 2025There’s so much that Arctic Awakening gets wrong. Or rather, that it never fully realises. If the game mechanics and pacing matched its visuals, Arctic Awakening would be a tour de force to rival Firewatch.