Sci-fi and space horror Horror puzzle 2D horror Body horror

STASIS

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Wake from stasis on a ship sinking into Neptune, and find your family.

Platforms: PC, Mac, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
Stores: Steam, GOG
Price: Paid
Rated: Mostly Positive on Steam (79% of 1,716 reviews); Metacritic 79 from 31 critics; 4.3 of 5 from 130 PlayStation Store ratings; 4 of 5 from 73 GOG ratings
Length: about 7 hours
Players: 1
Controls: Mouse: click to walk, look and use; drag items in the inventory to combine them. Controller on consoles.
Made by: The Brotherhood
Released: 2015

On GOG: one of the GOG horror games.

Get it on Steam GOG (STASIS: Deluxe Edition, with art book and soundtrack)PlayStation Store (PS4, PS5)Xbox Nintendo eShop (Switch)

What frightens John Maracheck wakes from stasis on an apparently abandoned medical ship sinking into Neptune's clouds, his wife and daughter missing; decks soaked in blood, the bodies of the crew and their test subjects, records of illegal experiments on people, and gruesome deaths for every wrong step.
Content: gore, graphic death scenes, suicide, medical and reproductive experimentation, strong language, suggestive themes.

STASIS is an isometric point-and-click sci-fi horror adventure from the South African studio The Brotherhood. John Maracheck wakes from stasis aboard the Groomlake, a seemingly abandoned ship falling into the clouds of Neptune, and has to search its bloody decks for his missing wife and daughter.

About STASIS

STASIS was made by The Brotherhood, an independent studio from Cape Town, and released on 31 August 2015 for Windows and Mac. It was funded on Kickstarter in 2013, and its designer Chris Bischoff named Alien, Event Horizon and Dead Space among his touchstones. It won the Aggie Award for best adventure game of 2015. Ten years on, Feardemic brought it to PlayStation, Xbox and Switch in June 2025. GOG sells it as the Deluxe Edition, with an art book, the soundtrack, the screenplay and wallpapers.

In the distant future, John Maracheck wakes from stasis in great pain aboard the Groomlake. The ship seems deserted, his wife and daughter are missing, and the Groomlake is sinking deeper into the swirling blue methane clouds of Neptune. To find his family he has to work his way through its labs and living quarters and piece together what its crew were doing from the PDAs and computer records they left behind: the Groomlake was a medical ship, and its experiments were illegal.

It plays like the classic adventures: you move John through detailed 2D isometric rooms, pick things up, combine them, use computers and solve puzzles. There is no combat. The fear is in the place: corridors smeared with blood, rooms overgrown with plants, bodies on the floor and records of experiments on people. John can die, and his makers say in the most horrific ways imaginable, and some objects let him end his own life. Mark Morgan, known for Fallout, wrote the music. Only English is spoken, but you can read it in seven other languages, Turkish and Polish among them. Expect a run of about seven hours, which is HowLongToBeat's main story time.

Critics praised its atmosphere and story (Metacritic 79; Rock Paper Shotgun called it the best adventure game its reviewer had played in years), and players warn that it asks for a lot of reading. On the PlayStation Store it holds 4.3 stars out of 5. It suits players of Sanitarium, the white chamber or Dead Space who want a slow, grim sci-fi horror to think through, and its follow-up STASIS: BONE TOTEM continues in the same style.

How to play STASIS

Buy STASIS on Steam, GOG or your console's store and start a new game.
Click where you want John to walk, and click on objects to look at or use them.
Pick up items, combine them in the inventory and use them on the ship's machinery to open the way on.
Read the PDAs and computer logs you find: they hold codes and the story of the Groomlake.
Save before trying anything risky; a wrong move can kill John.

Screenshots

STASIS screenshot: a dark deck seen from above, its grating pooled with blood, pale corpses on the floor and gore on the walls

STASIS screenshot: an isometric lab overgrown with vines and cracked specimen tubes, as John asks how it grew this wild in a few months

STASIS screenshot: a blood-spattered lab with a brass pod and consoles lit in sickly green, as John says his imagination is playing tricks on him

STASIS screenshot: a dark machine room with an elevator shaft wrapped in plastic, blood splattered on the lit floor at its base

STASIS screenshot: a lone figure in a station corridor near a slumped body, green terminals glowing below the Life Support room

STASIS screenshot: a hall overgrown with green plants and big wall fans, a pale figure in the middle and bloody corpses on a catwalk

STASIS screenshot: a grimy door-lock panel reading that the door is locked by an atmosphere control override, over green-lit corridors

Tips

Read everything: PDAs and terminals often hold the answer to the next puzzle.
Look at objects before using them; John's descriptions hint at what they are for.
Some deaths are part of the experience, so keep several save slots.
On PC you can play with the mouse alone and save at any time, so save before you touch anything that looks dangerous.

Questions

Is STASIS on consoles?

Yes. Feardemic released it on PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch on 26 June 2025.

What is the difference between STASIS and STASIS: Deluxe Edition?

It is the same game. The Deluxe Edition sold on GOG adds a digital art book, the soundtrack, the screenplay, a document of all in-game text and wallpapers.

Is STASIS connected to STASIS: BONE TOTEM?

BONE TOTEM is The Brotherhood's later game in the same isometric point-and-click style, with a new cast and setting.

How long is STASIS?

HowLongToBeat, as shown on IsThereAnyDeal, puts the main story at about 7 hours, and about 8 if you look at everything.

Is STASIS voiced in other languages?

No. Steam lists full audio in English only. The text and subtitles come in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Russian and Turkish too.