10 games like Permafrost

The coldest survival game ever shipped. Temperature is the antagonist, clothing is layered, and dying of exposure is a normal outcome.

Strictly single-player and deliberately quiet — no co-op, no base building in Permafrost's sense, no faction pressure.

Learning to respect cold as a resource

A frozen Earth after a climate catastrophe, heat as the currency of survival, and every decision paid for in bodies.

City management, not first-person survival. You command a society rather than scavenge as one person.

The frozen-Earth fiction at scale

Mountain winter survival with hypothermia, shelter building and a story mode. Thematically near-identical.

Smaller scope and rougher production. Closer to a survival sim than Permafrost's open-world salvage loop.

Winter survival specifically, right now

An arctic setting where cold water and cold air are separate threats, plus a base you build up over time.

Underwater — the cold is a liquid problem rather than a blizzard problem, and there is no co-op in the campaign.

Cold plus base progression done beautifully

Session-based survival where you drop in, work a biome, and extract. Same risk/reward shape as a salvage loop.

Timed sessions on an alien world, not a persistent frozen Earth. Cold exists but is not the theme.

Co-op salvage runs with a hard timer

The definitive co-op base-building survival loop, and its Mountain biome has a genuine freezing mechanic.

Norse mythology rather than post-climate-collapse, and cold is one biome hazard among many instead of the premise.

Co-op building with the best group feel

Same publisher as Permafrost (Toplitz Productions), and the same "build a settlement, survive the winter" skeleton.

Medieval rather than post-apocalyptic, and dynasty/legacy mechanics replace pure survival tension.

Seeing what this publisher does well

The most detailed survival meter system in the genre — wounds, parasites, macros, all interacting.

Jungle, not ice. The systems are the same shape but the antagonist is infection rather than cold.

If you want the deepest survival simulation

Co-op survival with base building, seasonal weather and a hostile world that keeps pressure on your shelter.

Horror-first. The antagonists are creatures and cannibals rather than the temperature.

Co-op survival with real threat

The original frozen-city survival game. Heat radius, generator upgrades and impossible moral choices.

Pure city management with no avatar. You never scavenge — you legislate.

The coldest city-builder ever made