POLYARIS

The cold is the enemy. Survive the Arctic.

Version 2.4.1 for Windows · Not compatible with the Steam version

Playable with 1, 2 & 4 Players

The 2.4.1 Beta is live!

About the game

Stranded at the Edge of the World

POLYARIS is a first-person Arctic survival game where the cold is your main threat. Ski, sail, scavenge, and keep your body heat up long enough to find a way out.

You're a polar explorer and engineer flying near the Norway–Russia border when a nuclear explosion lights up the sky. The blast misses you, but your plane goes down. The radio is silent, and everyone nearby has vanished.

Multiplayer · 1, 2 & 4 Players
Open World Survival
Story & Endless Modes

Features

Cold. Hungry. Alone. Keep Moving.

The Cold Is the Enemy

Your body temperature is your real health bar. Layer your clothing, find shelter, and keep a fire going to warm up and cook. Weather and the day–night cycle change everything.

First-person view gripping two ski poles on a sunlit snowy slope, with tracks leading up to red wooden buildings and a lighthouse

Ski Across the Wilderness

Cover huge distances on skis through snowfields, ridges and frozen valleys. Moving fast keeps you alive, but every slope is a risk.

At the wheel of an orange inflatable boat, steering through foggy water between half-sunken shipwrecks and snowy rocks

Sail the Frozen Waterways

Take a boat through icy channels and along the coast, and fish to keep your supplies up when the land has nothing left to give.

Cooking a fish over a small campfire in the snow at night by the sea, with green northern lights overhead and a Fire & Cooking tip on screen

Scavenge and Craft

Search abandoned places for anything useful, then craft what you need to last another night: campfires, tents and other essentials.

Inside a ruined building, gloved hands raise a bolt-action rifle as a polar bear stands at the far end of the debris-strewn hall

You Are Not Alone

Polar bears, wolves and hostile scavengers roam the north. Pick your fights, or avoid them entirely.

Key art blending night into day: a mushroom cloud rises beneath green northern lights while, across a sunlit fjord, a skier with a backpack looks on

What Happened Here?

Follow clues and strange events to piece together what happened before and after the explosion, and how to get out of the Arctic alive.

The Health screen: a character in a hooded parka beside body status bars, a feels-like temperature of 5.9 °C and conditions such as Well Fed, Fracture and Bleeding

Your Arctic, Your Rules

Play the Story Mode or Endless Survival. Choose from four difficulty levels named after Arctic cycles, from Polar Day to Polar Night, or build your own custom challenge.