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The Black Ice

ActionAdventure

Developer RED CRAB GAMES, Antelus Games

A survival horror game where every breath could be your last. Explore a sinister Antarctic complex, unravel its mysteries, and try to survive before the darkness consumes you. From the Steam store page

40 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Sep 20, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works

Audience score

77
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27 positive · 8 negative
95% range 61–88%

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5 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.

Steam's own rating
Very Positive
152 of 185 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)

What people are saying

Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.

Reactions

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  • Steam user Steam user …8838Steam reviews · Dec 24, 2025 · 2 h played

    strange the full game is worse than the demo the english version has no audio, things that work in the demo dont work. (after about 6 restarts the audio came on) Storage crate, in security office opened the first time, put in painkiller, then went back and its locked. what is the point of a storage box, if you can't access it. gun power combined with gun power and it dissapears. wtf strange seem like it would be a good game from playing the demo, but i would wait for updates.

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  • Steam user Steam user …9973Steam reviews · Dec 27, 2025 · 1 h played

    4 inventory slots, little to no item stacks, items disappearing from existance when dropped... What kind of dog $h!t resource management is this?!

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  • Steam user Steam user …4935Steam reviews · Dec 28, 2025 · 1 h played

    The Black Ice has a lot of potential, which honestly makes its current state more frustrating than outright bad. Right now, this feels less like a full release and more like an extended demo. The game ends with a “To Be Continued”, and while I understand this is Early Access, the amount of content available doesn’t justify the $10–$12 price point in its current form. That said, there is something here. The atmosphere is strong, the Antarctic setting works well, and it very much feels like…

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  • Steam user Steam user …9216Steam reviews · Jan 2, 2026 · 5 h played

    Macready would be proud! I appreciate the easter egg of the VHS haha. I would like to thank the developers for making this amazing game even if it is still on early access. Game runs smoothly and is well optimized. The atmosphere feels like a true homage to John Carpenter`s " The Thing ". I`ll be waiting for the story to be continued. A must play game for anyone who loves the horror science fiction masterpiece (The Thing).

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  • Steam user Steam user …6102Steam reviews · Jan 1, 2026 · 4 h played

    THOSE TOES WILL LIVE RENT FREE IN MY MIND FOREVER

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  • Steam user Steam user …8765Steam reviews · Dec 25, 2025 · 4 h played

    This game is not finished yet, will take about an hour, maybe 2 if you mess around, and 3 if you have only 2 brain cells left like me... <3 ! My Full Playthrough, highly edited, no commentary: https://youtu.be/TnGi-i19wzM To Be Continued [ I hated this ] I was upset cuz I started to like the game. You have Prologue, Chapter 1 and like 45% of Chapter 2. The game is almost impossible to play (xd) there are stutters every 20 seconds, but even if this sounds funny, it was playable for me, the…

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  • Steam user Steam user …2237Steam reviews · Jun 24, 2026 · 4 h played

    The Black Ice is one of those psychological horror games that gets under your skin immediately. The atmosphere is thick, cold, and oppressive in the best way — every hallway feels like it’s hiding something, and the sound design keeps you on edge the entire time. The stealth is very unforgiving, but honestly, that’s part of what makes it work. You’re not meant to feel powerful here. You’re meant to feel hunted, fragile, and constantly one mistake away from disaster. When you pull off a…

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  • Steam user Steam user …3176Steam reviews · Mar 14, 2026 · 1 h played

    So i just completed the prologue and am running around but for those few minutes i can say the game is good looking on my steam deck and it runs pretty good. The puzzles are well thought out. And the sound of the snow storm is pretty good. But there are a few things that really annoy me. 1 i'm playing a Russian but i speak english....and the english is like: after they sort this out they better have some hot tea and chocolate for me. he should drink Griovka! Come on when i think of…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6217Steam reviews · Jan 16, 2026 · 5 h played

    Pretty decent game. The sounds of the enemies and the easter eggs were a nice touch. Looking forward to see where they take this game.

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  • Steam user Steam user …2371Steam reviews · Jan 11, 2026 · 2 h played

    Ok, had an issue with running. but I went through the controls again, and it seems to be fixed (I totally blame operator error, not the game). Looks very good and will be playing it through this weekend. The developers are very responsive and interested in making a solid product. Thank you folks and I look forward to playing.

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  • 💜⚙️ Jazz ⚙️💜 | ENVTuber @myjazzprincess.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 1, 2026

    💜⚙️We're Live!!⚙️💜 We have a 2 parter for New Year's today! First we are checking out The Black Ice, an early access game I got a key for. Then later, we will try to catch up on Control stuff I missed. twitch.tv/myjazzprincess #vtuber #eldenwood #keymailer

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  • Steam user Steam user …0048Steam reviews · Jul 27, 2026 · 4 h played

    The game is amazing but the IA is kinda low tier, music is 10, ambient is 10 where is the map? where is the map? where is the map? where is the map? where is the map? where is the map? where is the map? where is the map? where is the map? for real, you need to implement a map. Good luck with the release!

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  • Steam user Steam user …9282Steam reviews · Jul 11, 2026 · 4 h played

    The Black Ice was an awesome experience from start to finish. If your a fan of the classic Resident Evil games , you'll definitely love this. The game has that same tense, creepy atmosphere where your constantly on edge, solving puzzle's, and trying to survive 10/10.

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  • Steam user Steam user …2909Steam reviews · Jun 20, 2026 · 3 h played

    Good and easy to follow story, decent weapon mechanics, enemies that are guaranteed to piss you off.

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  • Steam user Steam user …6313Steam reviews · Feb 21, 2026 · 1 h played

    Hello Friends! In my humble opinion... This game have a great, unique, and interesting potential! It's like a - Dead Space, and Resident evil Combined together! I like this game very much! Since it has it all (things which i truly like) for example -Antarctic cold environments, abandoned science stations, mystical creatures, survival elements, small puzzles etc! Huge respects to these Developers and studio itself! cannot wait till it gets a full released version! Thank you for this and good…

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  • Steam user Steam user …7249Steam reviews · Jan 11, 2026 · 13 h played

    В целом это играбельно. Баги - единственное место где я застрял, это между двух стульев возле лестницы в комнате охраны. И первый босс тоже умудрился застрять в дендрариуме. И нет анимации получения повреждений. Графика- в целом неплохо, но как то сильно много одинаковых ящиков и в склад можно было накидать тех же разных деталей от бульдозера, машин, покрышек, а не засыпать всё одинаковыми ящиками и нет ни одной рохли, тележки и кран-балки как это всё грузилось не ясно. Дизайн уровней -…

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  • Steam user Steam user …8283Steam reviews · Aug 2, 2026 · 9 h played

    This reminds me of resident evil it's a great start and looking forward to complete game recommend you give it a go

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  • Steam user Steam user …3308Steam reviews · Jul 7, 2026 · 4 h played

    the game has a good Resident evil vibe to it, the area gave a alone and dread feel to it. over all it was a pretty ok game

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  • Steam user Steam user …5142Steam reviews · May 31, 2026 · 3 h played

    It's a bit short for the price tag. The enemies are a bit comical in their movement, as in it doesn't seem like the movement is well done. But, it was a fun little play through, and I really hate that it ended on a "to be continued." I had zero issues playing the game. The audio worked fine (except you cannot turn the music down or off and in the second bit of the game I would rather listen to the dead silence of the environment than music. It just didn't lend anything to the game at that…

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  • Steam user Steam user …7351Steam reviews · Jan 22, 2026 · 5 h played

    The game is very short and feels incomplete especially the ending to be continued but for the most part I enjoyed the game. The graphics are nice and the game can be intense. I had a problem with the lighting as it was very dark but I fixed it by changing it to max lighting in settings. Also there are some annoying glitches for example sometimes the interactions with safes would disappear and would not allow me to interact anymore with the safe and I had to load previous save. Anyways…

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  • Steam user Steam user …5855Steam reviews · Jan 16, 2026 · 9 h played

    I find this game excellent. In short, it's a gem. Overall, it's a real treat. Thanks for the enjoyment it provides so far. This is an interactive narrative game with horror and action elements, similar for example to Fort Solis, The Quarry, or Alone in the Dark 2024. It is a bit less scripted than The Dark Pictures Anthology series and Quantic Dream's trilogy, though not by much, with a good deal of the spirit of games like Tomb Raider or Industria, among other examples. The graphics are…

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  • Steam user Steam user …7798Steam reviews · Aug 3, 2026 · 6 h played

    Too short for the price. Steam should regulate these developers from releasing their short content.

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  • Scuff Cat @scuffcatvt.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 22, 2026

    💜STREAM💜 It's game review night! Tonight we're checking out and giving first impressions of Hellevators, Better Than Dead, Nightsoil, The Black Ice, & Beholgar 2 as we as demos that chat requests! Come check them out with us and see if we can find some gems among them!

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  • Steam user Steam user …9659Steam reviews · Jun 17, 2026 · 4 h played

    cant continue where i left off .

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  • Steam user Steam user …0397Steam reviews · Jun 14, 2026 · 6 h played

    Great atmosphere, solid horror elements, and an interesting story. Enjoyed my playthrough and would recommend it to horror fans!

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  • Steam user Steam user …5533Steam reviews · Jun 14, 2026 · 2 h played

    Very fun game. The atmosphere is pretty spooky, the guns feel like they actually do something and the graphics are pretty good. Took me about 2.5 hours to complete what is currently there (I was told theres an update coming pretty soon also) A few things that I think could be improved on though: - Currently, the audio balancing is a little grim. Turning down master volume/ the other sliders leaves certain things much louder than others and it feels like certain things don't get turned down…

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  • Steam user Steam user …3935Steam reviews · Jun 3, 2026 · 3 h played

    A really good game with quite a few good jump scares and good puzzles, would recommend and can't wait for the update! 🩷💜

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  • Steam user Steam user …0414Steam reviews · May 20, 2026 · 4 h played

    Amazing Game, I am very suprised that nobody has heard of this. Thank you for allowing me to play. this is deffinatly on rotation on my channel. Much Love

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  • Anton Antelus @antelusgames.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 9, 2026

    The Black Ice Full Game Playthrough from Datura Plays on Youtube

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  • Steam user Steam user …4802Steam reviews · Jan 4, 2026 · 1 h played

    Great game with tons of potential and i have to say it runs like butter at 2k screen res epic everything , lumen lighting and reflections with rtx raytracing im very surprised how polished this actually is on a rtx 4070 ti super ryzen system....game pad setup works nicely on xbox one controller as well havent had any issues ...gameplay not to bad the aiming is decent and feels right and so does gun play not to bad ......keep up the awesome work devs you got something really good cooking here…

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  • Steam user Steam user …4241Steam reviews · Jan 2, 2026 · 1 h played

    1000 enemies, 2 bullets. Boring. Uninstalled immediately.

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  • Steam user Steam user …6200Steam reviews · Dec 29, 2025 · 7 h played

    Slow at first, but overall not too bad of a game.

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  • Debaka @debaka.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 29, 2025

    you forgot to mention that the game should use the Black Ice mod for additional suffering

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  • Steam user Steam user …0498Steam reviews · Jan 31, 2026 · 1 h played

    Just not fun, Temu resident evil.

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  • Steam user Steam user …2210Steam reviews · Dec 31, 2025 · 1 h played

    Ok so I have played around with Unreal Engine and Unity and have atemted to build games similiar to this Myself, being inspired by titles like Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Cold Fear with a bit of Near Death. Unfortunantly i always gave up because my expectation were to high and couldnt build AAA quality games on my owne. Look the game is not bad and all that but its just not worth $20, i played it for about close to 1 hour and just didnt feel good then i ran out of ammo and couldnt attack and…

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  • Steam user Steam user …0714Steam reviews · Dec 28, 2025 · 2 h played

    Well, I'm sold! The Thing meets Extermination ( PS2 ) crossed with a hint of Resident Evil. Unfortunately ( at the minute ) it is a short outing but an outing well worth experiencing ! I thoroughly enjoyed my playthrough upto the much mentioned "To Be Continued" Screen, this game has all the makings of something really special. The story is interesting, you start off playing as Oleg, who is responding to an SOS from the Vostok facility in Antarctica. He makes his way into seemingly deserted…

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  • Steam user Steam user …5807Steam reviews · Sep 20, 2026 · 2 h played

    The game has potential but I can't really recommend this game in its current form. The game has the bones of a good game. The idea, atmosphere and music are very good. I love all the homage to The Thing, and the idea of a cross of The Thing and Resident Evil are right up my alley, but this game just falls short on both. The Thing worked as a movie because of the paranoia. You don't know who's human and who's not. I will openly admit I did not play very far into the game but there was no…

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  • Tubbernaut @tubbernaut.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 13, 2026

    This week; We explore Oleg and Alexey's stories in The Black Ice. Something of The Thing x Resident Evil mashup horror game Also, we aim to finish Maximo! ℹ️ What throwback classic do you want to see next? 📅 Schedule attached 𝕃𝕀𝕍𝔼 𝕠𝕟 𝕋𝕎𝕀𝕋ℂℍ & 𝕋𝕀𝕂𝕋𝕆𝕂 🔗 LINKS IN PROFILE

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  • Steam user Steam user …8978Steam reviews · Mar 17, 2026 · 1 h played

    The game looks promising with an interesting story. But i am surprised that devs spend so much on the game and break it with jump not working for some players. Which means it is not playable since like 10 minutes in. In the key mapping jump/hook/whatever is missing. And if you remapped 'space bar' unknowingly, then I guess it breaks the game even after reset. This could have been fixed long time ago. I asked for a refund.

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  • Steam user Steam user …0413Steam reviews · Dec 28, 2025 · 2 h played

    when is next chapter?

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