- Sharing Development Progress on The Black Ice - 25 June 2026
A few months ago, our survival horror game The Black Ice entered Early Access. Since then, we've received a huge amount of feedback, suggestions, and bug reports from players. Thank you to everyone who has already visited Vostok Station and shared their experience with us.The Black Ice is a survival horror game set in Antarctica. After a mysterious extraterrestrial substance is discovered deep within the ice, all communication with the Vostok research facility suddenly ceases. What was supposed to be a groundbreaking scientific discovery quickly turns into a nightmare. Players must explore the abandoned station, uncover the secrets hidden beneath the Antarctic ice, and fight to survive when every breath could be their last.Today we'd like to share what the team has been working on over the past few months and give you a glimpse of what to expect from our first major content update.The u…
- Update Postponed: The Black Ice - 24 May 2026
Friends, we’ve made the difficult decision to slightly push back the release date of our upcoming update. We know this is never the news you want to hear, but right now, our priority isn't just hitting a deadline—it’s delivering the level of quality that we can truly be proud of.We are fully doubling down on quality. Currently, we are completely overhauling the UI and putting a lot of work into polishing the melee combat, which turned out to be much more complex and demanding than we initially expected. It’s incredibly important to us that the game feels better—not just visually, but in the core gameplay experience itself.Thank you so much to everyone who continues to follow our projects, leaves comments, purchases our games, shares reviews, adds them to wishlists, and supports us. For an indie team, this truly means the world! ♥️Play The Black Ice right now, or add it to your wishlist…
- The Black Ice Update: Date Announcement & Roadmap - 17 April 2026
Greetings, Antarctic explorers! The team has been hard at work developing the project, and today we are ready to pull back the curtain on its future. It’s time to share our plans for the months ahead! May 25: First Major UpdateMark your calendars. A massive update is coming that will significantly expand the game world:New Locations: Explore uncharted sectors of the sinister complex.Story Expansion: Discover new plot details and find answers to the mysteries hidden within the frozen wasteland.Gameplay Evolution: We’ve refined core mechanics to make your survival experience even more immersive. Project RoadmapWe’ve prepared a development roadmap for you. While we’ve chosen to keep some surprises "in the shadows" for now, we’re excited to share these key milestones:Mechanical Depth: Deepening the survival systems and environmental interactions.New Threats: The roster of enemies will grow,…
- Early Access The Black Ice - 24 December 2025
Friends, we are happy to announce the early access of our game The Black Ice on Steam. Let our release be a small gift for you for the New Year holidays. This is the time when atmospheric stories, cold weather, and complete immersion are especially welcome.Description:The Black Ice is an atmospheric horror game set in the abandoned Antarctic station Vostok, cut off from the world by ice, silence, and uncertainty. A brave agent is sent to the station after a distress signal. He must find out why communication has been lost, where the staff has gone, and what lies behind the locked doors. The game's title refers to a rare natural phenomenon—black ice, which contains foreign, possibly extraterrestrial particles buried under the Antarctic cold millions of years ago.The game was developed over a year and a half by Antelus Games in collaboration with St. Petersburg-based Red Crab Games. The p…
- Global update for The Black Ice demo - 23 September 2025
We're heading to the Tokyo Game Show and can't do without adding Japanese. We want players in Tokyo to fully and comfortably immerse themselves in the mysterious story of the Vostok research complex. What's changed in the new demo version?Locations have been expanded.A new playable character and main character of the full version, Evgeny Topa, has been added.Shooting mechanics have been adjusted, and impact has been added.Enemies now have upgraded artificial intelligence.Additional cutscenes have been added.New phrases have been added to the Russian and English voiceovers.Japanese localization has been added.This is the final demo version, and we won't be changing it anymore. So now is the time to play if you haven't already!
- The Black Ice Team Members - 19 August 2025
We have already shared with you the inner workings of The Black Ice development—we talked about mechanics, the save system, and optimization. But today we want to shift the focus a little and show you the people behind the game.A total of seven people are involved in The Black Ice project. We will tell you about three key figures.Meet two members of the Red Crab Games team (which has become part of the Antelus Games family) and a narrative designer from Antelus Games.We asked them about how they got started in game development, what they love about their work, why they believe The Black Ice will find its audience, and what it's like to work at Antelus Games.Mikhail MuzhailoGame designer, co-founder of Red Crab GamesAt the dawn of the project, I was everything at once — a game designer, a scriptwriter, and a programmer. Practically everything you see (or don't see) in The Black Ice was c…
- The main character of The Black Ice - 7 July 2025
Evgeny TOPa from Utopia show will be the main character and face of our project The Black Ice, which we are developing in collaboration with Red Crab Games and with voice acting by GamesVoice.Add the game to your wishlist and follow its development. Early access is coming soon!
- Voiceover in The Black Ice - 25 March 2025
On March 17, we released The Black Ice demo on Steam, and it quickly took the second place in the list of popular demos on the platform! It was a real gift for us. The demo is already available with voice acting in two languages - Russian and English. It became possible thanks to our cooperation with the coolest studio GamesVoice! Working with GamesVoice is a separate story that we want to share with you. Our main characters are voiced by real professionals, each of which you've probably already heard. English voiceover Sergey Ponomarev - his memorable voice is spoken by dozens of famous characters, such as Geralt of Rivia in the series “The Witcher”, Captain Titus from “Warhammer 40000: Space Marine 2”, Pathfinder from “Apex Legends” and many others. Jordan Worsley is a master of his craft, a theater and voice actor who gives characters incredible charisma. He is known as a blogger and…
- The Black Ice demo has been released on Steam! - 17 March 2025
The demo is a small prologue, it takes about 30 minutes to complete. It introduces the player to the setting, atmosphere and some mechanics. Already in the demo you will be able to find collectibles, listen to recordings, explore the location and get into our universe The Black Ice. And professional voices will help you in this. We are waiting for feedback on the demo. Feedback and suggestions are accepted here.
- The Black Ice: title, mechanics, setting - 13 March 2025
About the title We thought for a long time what name would suit the project to better convey the atmosphere and details of the plot. In the end, we agreed that the most suitable name is The Black Ice. The Black Ice is a rare geological phenomenon that occurs under the influence of extreme conditions in the depths of Antarctic ice. It is ice of abnormal black color, which may be the result of the presence in its structure of foreign particles of unknown, possibly cosmic origin. For example, its composition may contain traces of meteorite dust or other exotic substances that came to Earth millions of years ago and were absorbed by glacial masses. The title accurately conveys the plot and essence of the game, because the protagonist will have to visit the Antarctic complex - a scientific station to study this Black Ice. About game mechanics We have finalized all the main mechanics and tell…
