Near Death

Stranded at an abandoned Antarctic research base with no hope of rescue, you must battle a deadly blizzard in a desperate fight to find your way home.

Near Death is a first-person, atmospheric and survival game developed and published by Orthogonal Games.
Released on August 02nd 2016 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 7 languages: English, French, German, Russian, Hungarian, Spanish - Spain and Spanish - Latin America.

It has received 1,007 reviews of which 918 were positive and 89 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.6 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 7.79€ on Steam.


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Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: Windows 7 (64-bit OS required)
  • Processor: Intel Core i5 2.00 GHz or AMD equivalent (64-bit processor required)
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 with 1GB memory (or AMD equivalent)
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
MacOS
  • OS: OS X 10.10
  • Processor: Intel Core i5 2.00 GHz or AMD equivalent (64-bit processor required)
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 with 1GB memory (or AMD equivalent)
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
Linux
  • OS: (64-bit OS required)
  • Processor: Intel Core i5 2.00 GHz or AMD equivalent (64-bit processor required)
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 with 1GB memory (or AMD equivalent)
  • Storage: 1 GB available space

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Jan. 2025
Loved it! 8/10. As someone else pointed out, for a game with no enemies and no interactable characters, you never get bored and you really feel the stress of trying to survive in the harsh climate. You have an open world map and the freedom to walk anywhere at any time, giving it a good sense of realism, but with mostly linear quests that play out through a decent story. The scenery and the weather and very nicely done too. Definitely recommend, particularly if you liked Firewatch (this is basically the cold version of that!)
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Sept. 2024
Surprisingly nifty little game. Movement is a bit awkward, but it looks halfway decent, the story is compelling, and the survival mechanics are actually rather thrilling, which I think can be chalked up to the excellent environmental design. My recommendation is to avoid the higher difficulties unless you play a second time to get those achievements; on the hardest difficulty, the random resources are scarce enough that you can just get shafted out of being able to craft essential items, and the timer for freezing in the cold is so short that it not only becomes frustrating, but inadvertently removes all tension by turning the game from a survival horror into a reload-until-successful-athon, which isn't very scary at all. On normal, I didn't die at all (though I certainly could have at some moments), but I was on edge the whole time. On condition 1, I was just mildly annoyed half the time. Still, pretty good, bite-sized game. Highly recommend!
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July 2024
A short but sweet little 2-3 hour game. One of those games that isn't a horror game, yet is absolutely horrifying in how vulnerable you are to the environment. But in the end, that last vista of the game is so beautiful after the struggle. My only complaint is that it's very linear: There is no point to visiting an area of the complex before being told to, and no reason to visit them again once you've left (with one exception).
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July 2024
Great little survival game. Doesn't outstay it's welcome. Simple and to the point, and surprisingly engaging atmosphere for a lower budget game.
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June 2024
Good story and good atmosphere, but it might be too slow for some people. In addition, the hard modes are very difficult, especially if you haven't already played through the game; this makes 100% completion annoying.
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Near Death
8.6
918
89
Online players
1
Developer
Orthogonal Games
Publisher
Orthogonal Games
Release 02 Aug 2016
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