CRYO news & patch notes

Hello everyone,

We’ve just published a new developer blog for CRYO, where we talk about what the team has been working on recently and what’s coming next for the game.

In this update we share a closer look at the upcoming second map, including some of the new environments players will explore aboard Angenex’s massive offshore research vessel. We also touch on some of the procedural systems we’re implementing to keep each run feeling unpredictable, along with a few details about new monsters currently being developed.

There are also a few sneak peeks scattered throughout the blog if you want an early look at what’s been happening behind the scenes.

You can read the full developer update here: Valko Games Developer Update - April 2026

Thank you to everyone who has played CRYO so far and taken the time to share feedback. Seeing the community grow and hearing your thoughts on the game has been incredibly helpful as we continue development.

If you’re not already part of it, feel free to join our Discord.

We’re looking forward to showing more soon.

• Fixed an issue where the AI could be moved nearby to a player if they were detected as "stuck"

• Fixed some missing Localisation in the UI

• Added Localisation strings that were previously missing

• Updated Chinese font to support new localisation

• Fixed Hound not being able to enter panic room

• Fixed an issue where players could get stuck between lockers in the locker room when being killed

• Fixed an issue causing environmental jumpscares to not play for non-host players.

• Minor performance improvement for environmental jumpscares

Hello! Apologies for the delay on this update, we wanted to get a bunch of fixes and adjustments in. As always, we'd love to hear your feedback on the discord! Valko Games Official Discord

For those who don't keep up with our dev blogs, the new map should be coming soon; there's a couple sneak peeks in the discord in the meantime. Enjoy!

Changelog

Additions

• Added the hound

• Added a hound win achievement and cosmetic

• Added sounds for curtain collisions

• Added Russian Localisation

• Added some variation to the kennels in delta7

• Added some gore piles / dead grabbers around delta7

• Added a new "audio reflection" system to improve the realism and quality of sounds in-game

Changes

• Improved Stalker sounds in ceiling vents

• In the lobby, players will always have 5 inventory slots regardless of the difficulty

• Increased vignette when player crouches

• On Hard/Hell, monsters will be able to hear tablet notification sounds

• Increased the camera stun distance

• AI will now run over the chair in the conference room on Delta 7 rather than jump it

• The motion sensor will no longer detect dead players

• Made hiding spots conceal noise better

• You will no longer drop key items or med kits during a grabber attack

• Improved navigation for AI

• You now have a vignette when knocked down by a pipe throw

• The feral is now more accurate when throwing

• AI will now try to avoid wandering around downed players

• AI will now try to avoid checking the same place twice (unless it's absolutely sure someone is in there)

• AI will no longer walk on the coffee table in the lounge

• Improved note page in tablet

• Made the tablet work regardless of ping

• Improved weather so that it transitions better when exiting a building

• Improved mouse/keyboard input detection

• Improved AI accuracy when pathing

• Improved corridor textures in Delta7

• Changing room progress bars are now clamped (i.e. it won't show 67/1 revives)

• Distractors now work much more effectively

• Keypad code tablets now flicker to make them more noticeable (we noticed a lot of players just ignored them)

• Improved stability

• Improved blood visuals to look less wet and increased amount around Delta-7

• Reduced lighting around map

• Improved microphone latency

• Added escaped players to the spectator chat so they can talk with players who died

• Improved penguin spawns to make them easier to find

• Increased the amount of penguins that spawn per round

• Tutorial - added UI scale pulse animations to Objective Tablet buttons showing what to press

• Added 'Confirm' popup to buttons: Quit, Go To Lobby, Disconnect

• Whiteboard text has been made black to improve readability

Fixes

• Fixed issues with mics not working (this should solve all the intermittent microphone issues)

• Fixed another bug that allowed AI to get stuck

• Fixed an issue causing the motion tracker to make noise in your inventory but not your hand

• Fixed keypad code position issue in research

• Fixed several minor lightmap issues such as the desk with dividers

• Fixed issues with inventory sometimes desyncing

• Fixed a couple areas where occlusion could cause things to disappear

• Fixed an issue that could result in monsters using the wrong mesh for navigation and therefore clipping into buildings/under floors

• Fixed fridges in the labs causing players to clip into the wall

• Fixed a bug causing players to get pushed through walls during kills in lodgings A

• Fixed a bug where the AI could sometimes "teleport" between lockers in very specific circumstances

• Fixed a bug where objectives would switch while walking

• Fixed objective tablet persistent notifications not registering correctly

• Fixed a bug causing delayed sounds when a remote player collides with objects

• Fixed a bug where your cursor could disappear when interacting with the cryo-storage puzzle

• Fixed a bug where players could get stuck inside the vehicle shed walls

• Fixed a wall collider in the start area that allowed players to get stuck when self-reviving

• Fixed a bug where the server list didn't mouse scroll

• Fixed a bug causing players screen to continue to freeze after spectating a freezing player's revival

• Fixed some issues with the controller overlay for steam

• Fixed a bug where AI could get stuck at vent entrances

• Fixed a bug that could occur with extreme pings where a feral object throw would cause a disconnection

• Fixed a bug where players could get stuck if they were killed moments after being revived

• Fixed the Camera stun achievement, it should now be consistent

• Fixed a bug relating to light sources which could result in monsters attacking the wrong player

• Fixed some colliders that allowed items to fall behind them and were subsequently unreachable

• Fixed a bug where the AI could clip into the floor in Lodgings A

• Fixed a bug causing AI to slow down when changing or turning directions

• Various smaller fixes that could cause crashes

Additions / Changes / Improvements

• Added controller support

• Spectate will now show the spectated player's inventory and noise meter

• Improved the transitions between Walking, Running and Idling for all AI

• Improved how we handle monsters being active around players

• Improved how monsters determine whether a player is in a hiding spot

• Added an additional check to make sure downed players aren't contributing to the monsters interest

• Added an in-house analytics solution (anonymous)

• Improved stalker ceiling-vent usage

• Added a toggle sprint option

• Added a minor vignette when sneaking

• Removed code spawn points outside of the conference room for the printer objective (people weren't seeing it while wandering around PCs leading to frustration)

• Improved the panic room tasks to be clearer

• Added a cooldown to the AI search animation so they're not stood sniffing repeatedly

• Added a bunch of new spawn points for items around the base, mostly on bodies

• Added a shader preload to prevent the FPS dip when particles first spawn

• Changed fire extinguisher particles and ensured they no longer appear far from the source

• Added new achievements for escaping

• Added the first Arcade machine to the lobby

• Added an achievement linked to the arcade machine

Bugfixes

• Fixed cosmetic marker being visible through the wall

• Fixed "Family Photo" unlocking for the wrong player

• Fixed a safe spot in lodgings B

• Fixed several penguin spawns not being interactable

• Fixed an issue causing players to clip through the floor in the vehicle shed

• Fixed several missing or wrong localisation keys

• Fixed an issue causing host to have a screen fade each time a player switches their body type

• Fixed local volume slider not working in solo

• Fixed a floating jug in Lab A

• Fixed an issue where you could interact with the customisation UI outside of the changing room

• Fixed the "infiltrator" achievement not unlocking correctly

• Fixed snow goggle glass colour

• Fixed an issue causing the mirror to not render goggle glass & making it darker

• Fixed a bug that allowed monsters to kill players going into hiding spots even if they weren't seen (this happened within 3m)

• Fixed medkit being invisible after self-reviving

• Fixed an issue where your screen would fade trying to switch players, even if there is no one else to spectate

• Fixed an issue causing AI to sometimes slow down, particularly when investigating

• Fixed an issue causing AI to break/get stuck

• Fixed an issue causing the player animations to jitter

• Fixed the desync between players doing actions at the same time (for example, locking a door and opening it at the same time)

• Fixed an issue where you can cause an item to disappear if you switch to another inventory slot during the drop animation

• Fixed a bug where doors stayed closed after the stalker breaks the chains on it

• Fixed a bug where the stalker was entering ambush midway through a chase

• Fixed a bug that allowed monsters to kill people in lockers even without seeing them go in there

• Fixed a bug that allowed monsters to chase for longer than they should

• Fixed a bug allowing you to run through the stalker in his ambush animation

• Fixed an issue where the security decryption didn't feature all letters

• Fixed several instances of the stalker sneaking where he shouldn't

• Fixed an issue where monsters could occasionally get stuck for a short amount of time while searching for a player

• Fixed having an empty medkit in a slot before a full one causing the game to end

• Fixed an issue with players being unable to interact with objectives (printer, hdd reader) while holding empty fuel cans

• Fixed the player tab on the tablet not saving and also fixed a bug where the volumes were incorrect

• Fixed an issue where AI could get stuck trying to destroy distractor items

• Fixed a bug resulting in players getting stuck while using deicer / fire extinguishers

• Fixed a bug that allowed players to shoot themselves with a flaregun

• Fixed an issue where certain keycards spawned inside objects

Hello all,

Just to update everyone with the current game plans, we've put together a dev blog. You can read it here: Valko Games Developer Update - December 2025

Thank you to everyone who has joined us so far with CRYO!

Hello Everyone,

We have enabled the ability to earn cosmetics this update. This is done currently in two different ways;

Changes and New Features

• Loading screen hints have been added

• Texts have been updated to help players find/understand objectives

• Easy difficulty will now only have a single objective and it will never be the CCTV one

• Microphones can now be reduced even further

• Lobby passwords are now hidden (stream friendly) and appear on the lobby board

• Various audio improvements to occlusion, reverb, footsteps etc

• More variation for the grabber audio

• Added the ability to self revive in singleplayer and Easy difficulty

• Map wall decals have been adjusted to represent their respective keycards (i.e. red card -> red decals)

• Some small audio additions when the feral is walking nearby

• Increased the default FoV

• New lighting around the base to make some areas easier to notice and navigate

• The Stalker AI has been redone and will now "stalk" players. He also ambushes much more often.

• We've reduced the headbob when downed

• Motion detectors are now more likely to spawn in the locked labs

• We've reduced the intensity of the body flashlight so it's not as annoying against the tablet

• New spawn points have been added to the Gym and Printer Room

• Added more signage around the map and included floor plans to help players understand where they are.

• Large flashlights now drain a lot slower

• Added FSR2 upscaling if DLSS isn't supported

• Chain will now notify players that only double doors can be locked

• Made tutorial text more noticeable

• Defibrillator item has been added that will allow players to "resurrect" dead players

• Toilets are now much more effective for hiding (we see a lot of players using them as hiding spots)

Bugfixes

• Fixed AI getting stuck on distractor items

• Fixed the visuals on hair that was causing it to result in bald-looking players

• Snowtruck audio volume has been increased

• Grabbers will no longer run in place

• Lobby has had some audio issues fixed

• The panic room notification now sends to chat correctly

• Plants no longer block vision in fire and medical

• AI shouldn't get stuck in the spot while searching for players as often (we're still looking into this fully)

• Typing on the tablet will no longer speed up your "give up" bar when using space

• Medkit vials no longer have crazy physics sometimes

• Player positions are synced much better during kills

• The game no longer ends if you trap the monster in the panic room

• You should no longer clip in hiding spots

• Synchronised hiding spots better so you shouldn't get desynced hiding

• Bathroom reflection probes have been added to prevent you from going shiny in complete darkness

• The stalker should no longer run at full speed in the walk animation when searching for players

• Fixed an issue where players could walk into lockers

• Fixed a bug where players could interact with hiding spots while the monster was also searching it

• Fixed several spawners being hidden or floating

• Fixed a bug that caused multiple of the same objective to sometimes appear in the tablet

• Fixed a bug where the scaling was sometimes off for the cancel revive text

• Fixed a bug where the panic room password would be in the decrypted list

• Fixed a bug where items would desync when dropped sometimes

• Fixed a bug where reviving would sometimes cause players to be disconnected

• Fixed a bug where lobbies sometimes allowed more people to connect

• Fixed chat not auto scrolling

• Fixed a bug where the lobby password could cause a crash

• Fixed a bug where getting jumped on by a grabber would lock your camera

• Fixed a bug where getting into a vent after a feral pipe throw would prevent getting caught