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You didn’t ask to lead this expedition, but here you are. Stuck in the ice, Captain missing, miles from civilisation. Someone has to take charge. Manage your meagre resources, balance safety and morale, make the hard calls, and head in the only direction you can - through The Pale Beyond.

The Pale Beyond is a resource management, survival and choices matter game developed by Bellular Studios and published by Fellow Traveller.
Released on February 24th 2023 is available in English on Windows and MacOS.

It has received 1,808 reviews of which 1,609 were positive and 199 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.5 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 19.50€ on Steam, but you can find it for 1.00€ on Instant Gaming.


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Windows
  • OS *: Windows 7
  • Processor: 1.2GHz processor (Intel Core i5 and up)
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: DX10, DX11, DX12 capable.
  • DirectX: Version 10
  • Storage: 3 GB available space
MacOS
  • OS: Mac OS X 11.0.0 or above
  • Processor: 2.0 Ghz
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 3 GB VRAM
  • Storage: 3 GB available space
  • Additional Notes: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

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March 2025
An excellent initial release from a new studio. Resource management with believable, well-written characters, emotional soundtrack, and gorgeous, hand-drawn artwork. I never thought a game like this would have me constantly thinking about it when I wasn't playing it, yet here we are.
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Oct. 2024
Quite an interesting experience... Is not just a resource management game, its a tale with the crew. the game sets the mood rly well, the music, atmosphere, situations and specially the characters makes u feel worried about them, about the hunger and the cold. im lookin forward to other games of bellular studios, it was a rly nice discovery!!!! May the gods free u of the Pale Beyond...
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Sept. 2024
Ok. It's a LOT better than I thought. It's more than a simple resource management game. The story. The characters. The pulsating feeling of survival. It's actually pretty immersive. The choices MATTER. The ending(s) are very satisfactory and resolves the build up effectively. The game is a near masterpiece. It's an _experience_.
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Sept. 2024
A game that will stay for me for a long time. It has a very authentic choices matter vibe. Even though this game involves about 25 characters (excluding doggies), all of them, even the minor characters, feel very fleshed out. The game is very well written in terms of character motivations, although there are some typos throughout the game. All the decisions you take can way heavily on you if you invest yourself in the game. Perhaps the price can be -20% to -25% off because the game can be completed over the weekend, but I don't feel scammed because it simulated a survival catastrophe perfectly. It is good to support developers that craft such a nice story.
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Aug. 2024
I have been following Belluar since early Legion days, huge respect for everything him and his team does, this was a the cherry on top. This game was incredible, rarely has a game so quickly captivated me and gotten me interested enough to actually care about the plethora of characters that The Pale Beyond throws at you. Shoutout to Hammond, the best damn engineer a sailor could ask for. This game is like if This War of Mine, Disco Elysium, the movie The Thing, and Outer Worlds had a love child. I loved it, I can't recomend it more. For people with sensitivity to injured/killed animals, I would advise caution. I cried. Anyway, WHISPER MAXEMILIAN WRA-Horde check out The Azeroth Protectorate for a great RP guild and pve team FRFR FROST DK FOR LIFE
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The Pale Beyond
8.5
1,609
199
Online players
14
Developer
Bellular Studios
Publisher
Fellow Traveller
Release 24 Feb 2023
Platforms
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