⚜ SteamCozy

Home / Games / Arid

Arid

Arid

Discover the mysteries of the Atacama, explore the abandoned mining networks, evade the scorching sun and survive the environment in one of the most arid place in the world. Arid is a FREE survival game made by students from Breda University.

Released Jun 29, 2021 Developer Sad Viscacha Studio Publisher Breda University of Applied Sciences Platforms Windows Open World Survival CraftSurvivalMultiplayerExplorationCrafting
View on Steam ↗ Free (US · as of 2026-08-12)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-29 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-16.

86.6%positive1,963 reviews
Recommended · 213 found this helpful

“I staggered around for just 36 minutes before I croaked. I've lived in Arizona for the past 25 years and have hiked and worked in the Sonoran Desert all year round. I can tell you that after just a few hours in >110-degree temps a task as simple as reading a compass and…”

— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played
Recommended · 264 found this helpful

“My recommendation is based on the price point. However, there are issues: Arid is supposed to be a survival game, but it isn't. It's a room escape game. In each area you must find the key in order to unlock the next area. The key may be a torch, a rope, whatever. Each level…”

— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs played
Recommended · 83 found this helpful

“If you love The Long Dark as much as I do, you may really enjoy this not so small school project. No zombies, yet a challenging post-apocalyptic type world to make your way through. There is no one to talk to, and I'm quite okay with that.”

— a player, Steam review · 55 hrs played
Read more reviews ↗

Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.

391all-time peak
0 100 200 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 No data collected for this period No data collected for this period 149 avg · Jul 2021

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-10-26.

39achievements
5.8%median completion
1.4%rarest: Librarian
83.9% of players 58.2% of players 54.6% of players 51.9% of players 49.5% of players 36.1% of players 19.2% of players 14.9% of players 11.6% of players 10.2% of players 10.1% of players 9.5% of players 9.1% of players 8.3% of players 8.3% of players 7.0% of players 6.3% of players 6.0% of players 5.8% of players 5.8% of players 5.7% of players 5.6% of players 5.5% of players 5.2% of players 4.8% of players 4.5% of players 4.3% of players 4.3% of players 3.7% of players 3.6% of players 3.2% of players 2.6% of players 2.3% of players 1.6% of players 1.5% of players 1.5% of players 1.5% of players 1.5% of players 1.4% of players 83.9% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
83.9%Welcome to the Atacama — Hidden achievement
58.2%High Quality — Find or craft an high quality tool.
54.6%Out in the world! — Hidden achievement
Rarest badges of honor
1.4%Librarian — Read all 36 letters, notes and journals.
1.5%What were you expecting? — Hidden achievement
1.5%Dead Man Walking — Complete the game on Dead Man Walking.

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.

Freecurrent · sampled 2026-08-12 07:53 UTC
Freelowest since tracking began2026-07-11

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Nov 17, 2021
ARID Update 1.1.0 & We won an award!

Hi Survivors! We're excited to announce that Arid has won the Best Student Game award at the Dutch Game Awards of 2021! Of course this would not have been possible without the amazing community so aga

Jul 15, 2021
ARID Official Soundtrack - Available Now!

Hi Survivors! First of all, we want to thank you again for the response to the game since release! We have been reading all the comments on both our Discord and Steam Forum and we are currently strugg

Jun 29, 2021
ARID has launched! ( Update 2 "Moon Valley" now available)

Hi Survivors! We are excited to announce that Arid will leave the Early Access, today! It's crazy to think how much the game evolved since the demo/prototype from 16 weeks ago! As a team of students,

Jun 23, 2021
Coming Soon: Saves wipe, Release and Achievements

Hi survivors! We are excited to announce that we will soon release our second large content update. With this update, Arid will officially move out of the Early Access phase. In a month we have more t

Jun 18, 2021
Hotfix - Quest Objectives Reset and Saving issue

Hi Survivors! Just a very quick hotfix about two issues reported by the players. We felt that they needed to be solved as soon as possible. Have a great weekend! Patch Notes FIXES FIXED - Objectives b

Games like Arid

From our knowledge graph — ranked by shared traits, not a black box. Each card says why it's here.

The Forest The Forest 95.3% · 209,212 reviews shares Open World Survival Craft, Crafting, Sandbox, Realistic Stranded Deep Stranded Deep 73.7% · 25,169 reviews shares Open World Survival Craft, Crafting, Sandbox, Realistic The Infected The Infected 83.7% · 3,857 reviews shares Open World Survival Craft, Crafting, Sandbox, Realistic cyubeVR cyubeVR 91.1% · 929 reviews shares Open World Survival Craft, Inventory Management, Nature, Crafting Len's Island Len's Island 80.0% · 4,311 reviews shares Open World Survival Craft, Nature, Crafting, Sandbox Animallica Animallica 70.3% · 667 reviews shares Open World Survival Craft, Nature, Crafting, Sandbox Miasmata Miasmata 77.9% · 909 reviews shares Open World Survival Craft, Nature, Crafting, Mystery Green Hell Green Hell 85.0% · 33,685 reviews shares Open World Survival Craft, Crafting, Sandbox, Realistic

Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.

GenresAction, Adventure, Simulation
Player tagsOpen World Survival Craft · Survival · Multiplayer · Exploration · Crafting · Sandbox · First-Person · Nature · Female Protagonist · 3D · Open World · Singleplayer (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Partial Controller Support · Steam Cloud
LanguagesEnglish * *
Achievements39
Official sitehttps://discord.gg/3hNJeNUVHj
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS: Windows 10 64-bit Processor: Intel Core i5 5th gen or better / AMD Ryzen 5 or better Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia GTX1050 Ti / AMD Radeon 570, 4GB VRAM DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 10 GB available space