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Wildfrost

Deadpan Games, Gaziter · Chucklefish

Quick read

Wildfrost is a snowy auto-battler deckbuilder: you place companions on a grid, watch the round resolve, and hope the storm has not rewritten the clock.

What kind of game is it?

Card placement plus time-to-act. Storms and tribes rewrite the board you just staged. The hand is still a deck, but the fight is a clockwork you place rather than a poker score you chase, and the companion on a tile is the whole combat kit.

Who is it for?

For players who like a snowfield fight they time, card by card.

How it plays

Loop: Building a deck
Sessions: Medium sessions
Progression: Runs that reset
Players: Single-player
Structure: Roguelike
Tone: Cozy · Challenging

Game DNA

What playing it feels like, out of 100. Our reading, separate from Steam reviews.

Progression35
Estimate
Social18
Estimate

Key Steam facts

Steam store figures, checked 17 Aug 2026.

Release

released

2023-04-12

Review score

82.9%

Checked 17 Aug 2026.

Steam positive percent.

Review count

8,819

Checked 17 Aug 2026.

Store price

€19.99

Checked 17 Aug 2026.

Languages

Demo

Early Access

Next Fest

Yes

Players

Single-player

How many people play Wildfrost?

Estimates from public Steam data, not figures from the studio. Ranges, not exact numbers.

Estimated copies

220k – 490k

Steam reviews × 25 to 55. For a free game: players, not sales.

All-time peak players

5,064

Most people playing at the same moment, per SteamCharts.

Average players, Aug 2026

Peak that month: 140.

Median playtime

29.3 h

Half of 300 recent reviewers played 14.4–57.1 h. 3% under 2 h.

Players over time

Sept 2023Aug 2026

Where the players are

Languages of the last 300 Steam reviews. A proxy for regions, not a country split.

English72%
Simplified Chinese9%
Russian3%
Spanish (Spain)3%
Korean3%
Japanese2%

Steam data checked 4 Oct 2026

What makes it different?

The fantasy is a clockwork fight on snow: you place companions, then storms and tribes rewrite the board.

Core mechanics

How it scores

The fantasy: Optimization and Mastery. Our scores out of 100, separate from Steam reviews.

Build varianceEstimate

80 / 100

Strategy depthEstimate

78 / 100

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Genre / subgenre

Steam genre: deckbuilding.

Related rankings

Sources

Store price checked 17 Aug 2026.

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