The Black Ice drops you into a frozen, claustrophobic mystery where isolation is the constant threat. You play a polar explorer from the Mirny station answering an SOS from the Vostok research complex - a locked Antarctic base where communications have gone silent and the staff have vanished. From the first steps inside the facility the game leans hard on atmosphere: the wind, the failing lights, and the feeling that something is watching combine into a steady sense of dread.