What Lies Frozen
Ryphil · 2025 · Hidden Object, Puzzle, Simulation, Female Protagonist, 3D
PC
Positive85% · 33
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About What Lies Frozen
A psychological horror experience created by a team of 5 developers over the course of 4 months, featuring puzzles, immersion, and a unique hand-drawn art style.
In this game, you navigate a snowy cabin. Following a story between a Husband and Wife. Uncovering environmental clues and experiencing an unsettling atmosphere, and quickly realize something is very wrong. The game leverages tense sound design, dynamic lighting, and eerie visual distortions to create a sense of dread. The game is designed to make the player feel disturbed and unsettled.
To emphasize the surreal atmosphere, the radio messages are delivered through an intentionally robotic voice, this was a design choice to help emphasize the uncanny feeling the game can have at certain points.
In this game, you navigate a snowy cabin. Following a story between a Husband and Wife. Uncovering environmental clues and experiencing an unsettling atmosphere, and quickly realize something is very wrong. The game leverages tense sound design, dynamic lighting, and eerie visual distortions to create a sense of dread. The game is designed to make the player feel disturbed and unsettled.
To emphasize the surreal atmosphere, the radio messages are delivered through an intentionally robotic voice, this was a design choice to help emphasize the uncanny feeling the game can have at certain points.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
What Lies Frozen is a short narrative puzzle experience built around atmospheric exploration and detail-oriented problem solving. Set in an environment that feels quietly unsettling rather than outright scary, the game uses its sound design — especially the radio clues — to guide your attention and piece together the story. Progression comes from interpreting those audio hints, locating key items, and solving simple yet satisfying environmental puzzles that unlock new memories and areas. It’s not a challenging puzzle game by design, but that simplicity works in its favor; the focus stays on mood, pacing, and the subtle way the world unfolds as you dive deeper into the protagonist’s memories. With a runtime of about 30 minutes, What Lies Frozen delivers a compact, thoughtful experience that’s easy to jump into and enjoyable from start to finish. — The Ember Archives https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45601239/1 found this helpful
It was fine. The art style is great and simple. The price isn't outrageous or anything. It just feels a bit TOO simple and easy to complete. Not really something makes you feel super tense and not something that feels super great in terms of gameplay. The last puzzle of the game also wasn't the most clear honestly. If you got some spare cash, grab it, it's about 30 minutes. But, I can't say I would say its great. It tries to be like PT, but it doesn't capture that feeling well enough. It builds to something you can see from a mile away. Not for me, but I get if someone finds the charm in it.1 found this helpful
Nice game. Great voice acting and art style. The story was mysterious and kept me engaged, and the puzzles weren't too hard to figure out. My only slight issue that I wish there was a way to raise the brightness because I was struggling a bit in the beginning due to it being a bit too dark. Absolutely worth the price. Worth a bit more in fact.
So thankful for a code to play the game! It was extremely enjoyable and I look forward to any updates that may be added in the future. If the developer sees, I recommend a use for the ax in a later update!
The art style is beautiful... but that's it... there is nothing creepy about this game, you just look around for key pieces half of the game and that's it... really boring. beautiful though
Great sound design, nerve racking atmosphere.
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