Cold climate games for gaming anytime

[Pharad]

Weirdly noticed I own so many of these lol, never thought I had a thing for cold :D Frostpunk is a great game btw, been loosing my time in it for quite a while, hard as hell though.

 

[Watser]

Heroine's Quest

Just chilling at the frozen lake.

 

[Johannes]

Aleshar: World of Ice

 

[Neanderthal]

The Northern extremes of Serpent Isle are nice, and force the player to prepare for the cold or risk dying of exposure.

 

[Reinhardt]

Evil Islands

 

[c2007]

Telos Polar Plateau

Hoth

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

Max Payne

Indigo Prophecy

Parasite Eve

 

[RaptorRex888]

The epilogue of Witcher 1 - a representation of the actual White Frost.

 

[Valestein]

Also this..

 

[The Red Knight]

Arctic Wolf Family Simulator

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And this award-winning cult classsic puzzle game

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Transarctica

Age of Wonders 1-2 and HoM&M 2-3 have cozy-looking winter maps

(santa caps from this)

Red Alert 2's winter maps

Dominions 5 has winter overlay (combine with everyone taking full cold scales; use Legendary mod for a more eventful single-player experience)

Dominions 4 has this gorgeous Ledan nation mod, not sure if it's been ported to 5 yet.

NEO Scavenger with this mod.

Witch's Wake for NWN.

Yoda Stories

King of Dragon Pass with the Ice Tribe as your ancestral enemy.

Blades of Avernum's "Frostbite" scenario.

Battle for Wesnoth had some interesting winter maps/campaigns (and a mechanic of snow slowly covering the map and hindering unit movement)

Happyland Adventures X-mas Edition

 

[Martyr]

Serpent in the Staglands

Soulbringer

 

[Outlander]

Sang-Froid - Tales of Werewolves

P. good game, each day you set traps, ambushes and defenses for the night attack. It's free on Steam:

 

[NecroLord]

Morrowind: Bloodmoon.
And Skyrim...

 

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[ferratilis]

When Company of Heroes 2 came out, I really enjoyed playing on the winter maps. It had some novel gameplay mechanics like having to keep your units close to campfires during blizzards, units moving slower through snow, tanks falling through ice into bodies of water, low visiibilty etc. Of course, players complained that all these mechanics "ruin balance" and Relic pussied out and removed all of them. But it was one of the coolest games set in winter, it's just sad all of it was within a shitty game that became all about microtransactions and predatory DLC, despite the engine being so advanced.

 

[Outlander]

Kholat is a walking sim based on the Dyatlov Pass incident:

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[Iucounu]

Crysis and Crysis Warhead have some very cold levels.

 

[axx]

Anyone remember this?

 

[Zlaja]

No One Lives Forever 2 had a winter level:

 

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[ds]

Arx Fatalis (cinematics). Climate so cold you don't even get to play outside.

 

[ds]

Ok, two games where you actually get to see snow yourself: Near Death and Kona

 

[Gilius Thunderhead]

I always liked the winter maps in Warcraft 2 with the snow sprites.

Other games since then have surpassed it, maybe, but Colin McRae Rally was the first truly realistic rally game I remember and the snow tracks
were scary as hell.



Sled Storm, one of my favorite racing games.



Carmageddon 1 and 2 had some great snow maps. I remember throwing animals and people off the mountain in C2.



Metal Gear Solid was set in Alaska and had several iconic locations.

Tomb Raider's iconic first level. You also have the Antarctica levels in Tomb Raider 3, but I haven't played those yet.

 

[antimeridian]

Despite having soured on the series over time, Mass Effect's Noveria absolutely nailed this vibe. There were also some uncharted Mako planets which were similar.

 

[AlwaysBrotoMen]

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
legend of zelda
Metal Gear Solid
Indigo Prophecy
Maxpayne 1 and 2

 

[Gibson]

Deluxe ski jump.