Terminal North

About

You play a lone delegate delivering seed samples to a remote underground vault. The facility’s systems are offline and the temperature plummets as you navigate empty corridors and malfunctioning terminals. A distant voice in a text chat offers cryptic instructions while your flashlight flickers over frost-covered walls and scattered maintenance logs. Each decision branches you deeper into the facility’s mysteries, balancing simple inventory puzzles with a growing sense of claustrophobia. The terminal’s guidance feels helpful one moment and suspicious the next. The game’s sparse design leans on icy atmosphere and subtle environmental storytelling. With a 81 on Metacritic, players praise its minimalist approach to tension. The lack of hand-holding forces you to piece together why the vault’s abandoned and why the voice insists you “ignore the logs.” The puzzles feel organic to the setting without overexplaining. Some see it as a slow-burn horror experience, others a quiet mystery. Either way, the cold never feels like an exaggeration.

Storyline

All you have to do is deposit a few boxes of seeds. You’re alone, cold, and in the dark, but the man on the other side of the terminal will help guide you. Ignore the logs.