Arctico is a tranquil exploration and base-building adventure in which you arrive on a frozen island to recover and continue the scientific work of your late mentor. Over time you’ll gather precious resources, conduct experiments, and sell seeds to grow your fledgling research outpost into a thriving science hub.
As you nurture a variety of Arctic plants and run tests in your labs, you’ll generate data and crop yields that can be reinvested to upgrade your facilities and acquire more advanced tools. From expanding greenhouses to unlocking new experiment modules, every improvement brings fresh possibilities.
Personalization is key: repaint your base structures, enhance your sled, and customize equipment to suit your aesthetic and functional needs. Whether you favor bold color schemes or streamlined designs, you can make your outpost uniquely yours.
Beyond base life, the island itself is full of secrets. Trek across snow-covered landscapes, uncover antique artifacts and handwritten letters, and piece together your mentor’s legacy.
And because discoveries are even better with friends, Arctico supports up to four players in cooperative mode. Team up with up to three companions to build, farm, explore, and solve the mysteries of the frozen world together.
Survival Mode
New "Survival" game mode available when starting a new game, I will keep releasing new updates for this new game mode throughout 2026.This new game mode will be more demanding for the player, the weather and time of day will greatly affect your calories consumption and energy levels. If your available energy reaches a critical state you will pass out and a heavy resources penalty will be applied, the same applies if anybody on your gaming session (coop) passes out. A lot of systems were rebalanced for this new game mode (without affecting the normal game mode) and I will keep calibrating them based on feedback. Below you will find the changelog, most of these changes only apply to the new survival game mode.-Added more details to the tutorial.-Player 2/3/4 locations and individual resources are now successfully saved when the host sleeps.-Solar panels will sometimes need fixing.-Increased player calorie spending.-Increased dogs calorie spending.-The player reaching a 0 nutritional value will trigger a crisis that will cost half of your most valuable resources.-Being in the elevated terrain will affect calorie spending.-Being out at night will affect calorie spending.-Placing a fire place with the misc builder will relieve you from the cold.-The fire place has no extra cost now.-Increased ammount of energy the player spends when running.-Adjusted player movement speed loss from low energy levels.-Added slight vision issues when player's energy is low.-The weather changes at night.-The player can now eat raw fish.-Fishing spots will be usable every couple of days.-Fishing spo...
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