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Lake Baikal, Siberia
17,000 B.C.
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Field guide
How to survive the steppe
Lake Baikal, Siberia · 17,000 B.C.
Online multiplayer
Clan PvP
Co-op hunts
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Crack the ice under whatever hunts you, keep warm, and read the weather before it blinds you.
WASDMove
MouseAim
Left clickBow · strike
Right clickThrow spear
1–6Weapons
AltDodge roll
EPick up · ride
EscMenu
All controls & keys
WASD · Mouse
Move · look
ShiftSpaceC
Sprint · jump · crouch
Alt
Dodge roll the way you're moving (backwards if still). Costs breath. Option works too. Play full screen (Esc menu) so ⌘W and ⌘1–6 stay in the game
1–6 · Wheel
Bow · spear · bone knife · club or axe (pick one up) · stones · firepot (Q)
Left mouse
Draw and loose, jab, slash, or hold to throw a stone or firepot
Right mouse · F
Hold to throw the spear (Ctrl+click works on a trackpad)
EGTab
Pick up, swap a club or axe, or board a sled · snow goggles · scoreboard
R · C
Call clanmates to your sled or mammoth · driving a war mammoth, make it rear and stomp
V · U
Save the last 20 s as a video clip · hide the HUD for clean footage
Esc
Menu: free the mouse, change graphics, leave the match
Controller
Plug one in and press a button: Xbox, PlayStation and Steam Deck controls
Custom match Pick the mode, map and rules. Play solo against bots, or open a party below for friends.
Solo matches don't count toward stats, and neither do parties on custom rules.
Controller
Desktop only for now
Arctic Instincts is an online multiplayer game played with a keyboard and mouse. Send yourself the link and join the hunt from a laptop or desktop.
Music draws on Tuvan and Altai throat singing (khöömei, sygyt, kargyraa) and Sakha shamanic drumming and khomus traditions of Siberia. Music made with Google Lyria; textures with Google Gemini.