Permafrost Enters Early Access With a Year of Updates Planned
The launch arrived late and with a several-hour delay to fix crashes from the final playtest, which sets the near-term expectation for a build whose major systems are present but whose rough edges are already visible.
Reporting from 1 source: Game Spark.
SpaceRocket Games opened Permafrost in early access on PC via Steam, Epic Games Store and GOG.com on October 9, 2026, after several postponements from a planned 2025 start. The cold-survival crafting game, published by Toplitz Productions and set on a permafrost Earth after the moon shattered, supports solo play and co-op for up to four players. The early access period is planned to last at least one year.
The build shipping on October 9 is not a stripped vertical slice. SpaceRocket Games has most major features in place: area exploration, crafting and quests can all be played now, and a development roadmap for the early access stage has been published.
Character creation covers gender, voice, skin color, background and traits, with starting equipment and skill bonuses set by the background choice. The player also names and picks the breed of a dog partner, with Golden Retriever and Border Collie among the options. The story opens with an engineer named Luke answering a communication from a missing friend, Icarus, and losing nearly all his tools in an accident.
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