The image of the Arctic games might differ from person to person. While some see the Arctic region full of light, white snow and polar bears, news about oil, gas and icebreakers, some notice the many curiosities and dangers of the Arctic.
This scary and mysterious picture of the Northern region made it to the video games about the Arctic, Arctic games. Here are 5 titles that feature the Arctic region.
A fan of the Amnesia series by a Swedish Frictional Games might have heard of a game called Penumbra. The game features 3 parts: Overture, Black Plague and Requiem.
The game tells a story of a physicist by the name Philip Buchanon who goes to Greenland to search for the mine of his father. In this survival horror the player will have to face many dangers and solve numerous mysteries concerning the nature of the mine and the riddles surrounding his father.
In 1981, a Soviet meteorologist Alexander Nesterov tries to leave the Arctic, but gets on a ghost ship called the North Wind. By the way, the Wind is an Arktika-class nuclear icebreaker.
This game about the Arctic is also a survival horror, in which the player will have to solve many mysteries in order to understand the tragic story of the North Wind and her captain.
This game is based on a fairy tale of the Inupiats, an indigenous people in the Arctic. A girl Nuna has to solve many puzzles in this quest while travelling with her cute Arctic fox companion.
A survival game that demonstrates a fictional island by the name of the Great Bear Island. The player will face many challenges of a Canadian wilderness whilst observing the great portrayal of the High North.
The game is said to be the first in the genre of 'society survival', and that is quite true! Frostpunk features both 'frost', which defines the survival and development of the society, and 'punk', as in steampunk aesthetic, on which the game draws a lot.
Players have to make many choices that will change the nature of their society. Interestingly, the Arctic climate change which initially leads to the situation in Frostpunk is a global cold, not the warming…
As we can see, most videogames about the Arctic region use the mysterious (and cold, of course) aesthetic of the North and turn the players to solve the quests, survive in the harsh conditions or even govern a society of survivors.
