Cryo

Your colony ship has crashed on a frozen, uncharted planet after an act of sabotage nobody owns up to. The wreckage will not keep out the cold, and the surviving factions are hostile to each other. Cryo is an engine-building worker placement game where you lead one faction. You send drones from your engineering platform to scavenge resources and rescue crew still frozen in cryostasis, then spend materials on upgrades that shape your own set of actions. Multi-use cards give you choices every turn, and the goal is to claim the underground caverns before the others do. It is a medium-weight, mid-length strategy game for two to four that pairs a grim, icy mood with a satisfying tinkering loop.