Near Death on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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 1,022 reviews of which 932 were positive and 90 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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April 2025
A fantastic short-ish game (around 3 hours for a first playthrough) where there are no monsters, no jump scares, no shooting, just you against the unforgiving environment of Antarctica. With cold constantly bearing down on you and resources running low, you need to think and act fast to finish a set of objectives and leave the place. The game is quite well balanced. My first playthrough was on hard; here cold affects relatively fast, resources are scarce and you cannot afford many mistakes. A single wrong turn out in the cold can cost you your life. When crafting items you need to consider tradeoffs and not expend scarce resources on relatively useless items. On Condition 1 (the hardest skill setting) you rely on your experience from the first playthrough to act as fast as possible and craft only what you absolutely must (such as better clothing and wiring kits for a few specific spots like the garage). Items that you might have overlooked on easier skill settings (such as rope and light poles) suddenly become essential. On easy (which I took a quick look at to get one last achievement related to light poles) resources are so abundant that you rarely need to consider tradeoffs, and cold affects you only very slowly, rendering your portable heater almost useless. Anyway, the game is pretty cheap and has replay value, so get it if you enjoy a fair challenge. Just be adviced that you get little rest in Near Death, so if you're one of those who like to take their time to explore at their own pace, this game definitely isn't for you.
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March 2025
Short narrative-driven game about surviving the Antarctic winter. No monsters, no aliens, just you vs the encroaching cold. It's relatively short (3.5-4 hours on Normal for my playthrough), but I think any longer and it would start to overstay its welcome.
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March 2025
The OG South of the Circle. I honestly wasn't expecting the game to be so immersive but it was very neat and well thought out.
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Feb. 2025
I like the concept: ice cold temperature, strong wild wind, and darkness. And only you. Worth to play, even in normal you have difficulties, need to think of your next steps.
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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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Near Death
8.6
932
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Developer
Orthogonal Games
Publisher
Orthogonal Games
Release 02 Aug 2016
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