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Arctico
Explore Arctico with your dog sled, kayak, and up to 3 friends! Build and customize your base camp, gather resources and samples, set up labs, and take good care of your dogs in this peaceful island.
In short, Steam reviewers most often praise “Relaxing exploration and base building” (18 of 80 reviews) and “Beautiful snowy landscapes” (17); the most common complaint is “Bland, repetitive gameplay” (25). What reviewers agree on ↓
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-10-22 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.
What reviewers agree on
18 of the 80 reviews raise this.
“Fun, short, exploring and relaxing game, by far is a really indie game that could have some improvements but after all a really good game.”
17 of the 80 reviews raise this.
“Surprisingly cool little game with a kind of ethereal frozen vibe that not many games can recreate. Dev continues updating it and really shows the care put into it.”
6 of the 80 reviews raise this.
“Calm, cozy vibes with a cool map to explore. I played it with three friends and we were able to burn through all the content in a couple hours. But I also bought the game on a huge discount, so for the price I paid it…”
5 of the 80 reviews raise this.
“Calm, cozy vibes with a cool map to explore. I played it with three friends and we were able to burn through all the content in a couple hours. But I also bought the game on a huge discount, so for the price I paid it…”
5 of the 80 reviews raise this.
25 of the 80 reviews raise this · 10 of them still recommend the game.
11 of the 80 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
10 of the 80 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“Not worth it even tho it is on sale. It is rough around all the edges. Oh, you forgot to save? That's ok, just jump in a pond and get stuck without any means of saving the game, BECAUSE YOU MUST BE ON FOOT TO DO SO and…”
“I have Finally finished the game and It is a masterpiece, There are a few bugs to patch out but the fact that the game captured the beauty of solitude so perfectly just outweighs the negative. Thank you Arctico, The…”
9 of the 80 reviews raise this · 8 of them still recommend the game.
“Fun, short, exploring and relaxing game, by far is a really indie game that could have some improvements but after all a really good game.”
“Calm, cozy vibes with a cool map to explore. I played it with three friends and we were able to burn through all the content in a couple hours. But I also bought the game on a huge discount, so for the price I paid it…”
6 of the 80 reviews raise this · 1 of them still recommend the game.
Counted across 80 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 69.8% positive rating · as of 2026-05-13
“This is a chill game with an exploration-based story-telling element. Two modes, one (Survival) is slightly more difficult, but nowhere near the level of struggle of other survival games (thus still making it a calm experience). The pluses: I enjoy a relaxing survival game where…”
— a player, Steam review · 17 hrs played“the game overall is good, the map is huge, the vibe is great, especially with friends. BUT they have got to tweak the rate of hunger for you and the dogs, add more fishing spots increase the amount of fish that get per hole. i played with two other people and we were just going…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“Cute game, I love the concept! But its still very rough around the edges even though its been in development over 10+ years from what the update history tells. I hope eventually it gets more polished, but for me its too cluttered and messy.”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-10-21.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
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Arctico 2.9
-Reduced chances of solar panels breaking -Added buff icon for coffee in survival mode. -Added clock to the inventory. -Added day indicator to the inventory. -Improved resources readibility in invento
Co-op saving system improvements for player 2,3,4.
-Player 2,3,4 can now manually save their progress from the pause menu, and when the host exits the session their game will also be saved.-Increased ammount of fish players can extract while in surviv
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Adventure, Casual, Indie |
| Player tags | Open World Survival Craft · Co-op · Multiplayer · Open World · Adventure · Survival · Indie · Exploration · Nature · Atmospheric · Crafting · Casual (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Online Co-op · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , Spanish - Spain * , Spanish - Latin America * , Russian * , Simplified Chinese * , Portuguese - Brazil * * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 13 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows Vista Processor: Core 2 Duo Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Intel 4xxx Series w/ 512MB VRAM Storage: 1 GB available space Sound Card: Any on-board chip will work