Cold Salvage

Something is living on the wreck.

You and your crew are stabilisation engineers: blue-collar contractors paid to board dead ships and make them safe. Somewhere in the vents and the dark there's a creature that can't be killed. Your job is to find where it nests, work out exactly what it is, and report back so the sterilization team knows what they're walking into.

▎Investigate

Bring the right tools, then read the ship. Watch for neutron spikes, UV trails left where it has moved, bloodied vent grilles, readings from cloud chambers and test kits. Every creature leaves its own unique signs.

Learn them, rule out the rest and make the call.

▎It's hunting you

The creature doesn't wait for a timer. It follows your scent through the corridors and hunts down the hum of powered equipment. Sprint, leave a device running or panic, and it'll come looking. When it hunts, break line of sight, find somewhere to hide, or throw an aniseed grenade and run.

▎Keep the ship alive

Restore power, reroute atmosphere and cycle airlocks while you work. The more of the wreck you bring back online, the more the job pays. The more you change the environment, the riskier it becomes. You choose your level of risk and reward

▎Work the contract

File your report at the end of every job. Get it right and get paid. Spend what you earn at your tug's fabricator to print better gear.

▎Twelve creatures. One guess.

The Lurker. The Parasite. The Warden. Death. Each one behaves differently and leaves different evidence. Guess wrong and someone else pays for it.

▎Features

1–4 player online co-op

12 creature types to learn and identify

Evidence-based investigation with physical, hands-on tools

An AI that tracks your noise, scent and equipment between hunts

Per-room air pressure and oxygen simulation on every wreck

Environments that react to your repairs

Proximity voice chat

▎Our Use of AI

As a studio, we believe that using generative AI to create art and audio raises serious ethical concerns. These tools are built on the work of human artists, often without their meaningful consent, and risk displacing the very people whose skills and livelihoods they depend on.

We make our own assets wherever practical, particularly player models, tools, and other important elements of our games. Where we use purchased asset packs, we carefully vet the platforms and creators to make a reasonable effort to ensure the work comes from human artists.

All art and audio in our game is created by humans. We do not use generative AI to produce either. We encourage players to support the artists behind the games they love, including through their purchasing choices.

We do use machine translation as a temporary development aid while writing and refining our game's translations. These translations are placeholders and may be revised before release.