Year 1968. Arctic Circle, Russian North Pole station "Pole 21". The main hero Alexander Nesterov is a meteorologist occasionally caught inside an old nuclear ice-breaker North Wind, frozen in the ice desert many years ago. This steel creature once fought for its life and freedom, but it has fallen into an ice trap and all the creatures on its board lost not only their natural look, but a right to die. Cryostasis is a story about a drama of a Captain and his Ship evolving in the atmosphere of animal fear.

• The game develops with help of a unique system called Mental Echo – the ability to penetrate another character's memory and change the actions taken by the character in the past
• Highly detailed levels provide the player with more then just a thrilling gameplay
• More than 15 fearful enemies with unique capabilities
• 7 NPC's which will help to reveal the story
• 8 historically-authentic types of weapons