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Biomes

Frozen tundra, glacier, ice forest, frozen city — what each one costs you.
Gear

Clothing, tools, weapons — described by mechanic, not made-up stats.
Systems

Cold, warmth, hunger, progression, co-op — each with an explicit "unmeasured" list.
Guides

Original long-form guides, every number traced to a source.
Tools

Four calculators that turn a decision into a number.
Compare

Permafrost against other games, and biomes against each other.
Release

9 October 2026, Early Access.
News

Official timeline only — no rumour recycling.
Sources

Where every number comes from, and what is still unmeasured.
Evidence

Data & sources

This page exists because pre-launch game wikis fail in a specific, predictable way: they present inference as fact, and every page looks equally confident. Here is the grading we use instead, and the complete list of what we refuse to guess at.

Tier 1 · Official

Steam store page, SteamDB record, publisher newsroom. Reproduced verbatim where quoted.

Tier 2 · Reported

Assembled from official framing and trailer material. Labelled reported on every page that uses it.

Tier 3 · Editorial

Our own reasoning, clearly marked. The PC class scale is the only Tier 3 dataset — methodology below.

Primary sources

The PC class scale (the only editorial dataset)

The PC requirement checker needs parts on a common scale, and no official scale exists beyond the two named tiers. So we anchor a 0–100 scale on the official parts themselves:

  • Minimum CPU (i5-8600K / Ryzen 5 350) = 40
  • Recommended CPU (i5-12400 / Ryzen 5 5600X) = 70
  • Minimum GPU (GTX 1060 6GB / RX 590 8GB) = 40
  • Recommended GPU (RTX 3070 Ti 8GB / RX 6750 XT 12GB) = 70

Every other part (36 entries) is positioned on that scale using published relative performance. The checker outputs a comparison against the official tiers, never a frame-rate prediction — a benchmark would require the shipping build, which does not exist yet.

If you disagree with a placement, that is a legitimate criticism of Tier 3 data. It is labelled as such precisely so it can be argued with.

What is deliberately unmeasured

These values are not published by the developer and cannot be inferred. They stay blank until measured in the demo or the Early Access build:

  • Warmth, hunger and exhaustion drain rates
  • Frostbite thresholds and temperature bands per biome
  • Generator fuel type and burn rate
  • Item, clothing and weapon stat lines
  • Crafting recipe lists and material costs
  • Enemy, wildlife and loot tables
  • Dog carry capacity and scout radius
  • Loot sharing and threat scaling in co-op

Each of these appears as an “unmeasured” block on the relevant page, so the gap is visible rather than papered over.

Correction policy

Errors go on the changelog with the version they were found in. If you spot a value that contradicts something measurable in the demo or launch build, use the contact page — corrections get credited.

Site scope

  • 35 static pages, 16 entity pages, 18 comparison pages — 69 total.
  • 10 headline facts, each with a source tag.
  • Data version 2026.09.24, reviewed 24 September 2026.

Permafrost is developed by SpaceRocket Games and published by Toplitz Productions. This site is unofficial and not affiliated with either.