Kriophobia is a bleak and atmospheric survival horror game that feels like a return to the golden age of third-person psychological horror. Set on the frozen Zhokhov Island, the story follows Anna, a young geophysicist whose expedition collapses into disaster after strange magnetic anomalies and a hidden Soviet military base buried beneath the permafrost are uncovered. What begins as a struggle to survive quickly turns into something far more unsettling, as Anna is drawn deeper into surreal visions, grotesque entities, and the buried trauma tied to the place itself.