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As ARID, a combat-suit AI, explore alien ruins, solve machine-logic puzzles, and fight to save your unconscious pilot.
Released 30 May 2014
Protect a Failing Pilot
Scan Ruins with Flashlight
Solve Machine-Logic Puzzles
You are ARID, the AI of a high-tech combat suit crashed on a hostile planet. Your pilot is dying inside you. Your protocols demand you save him — but this world will force you to bend every rule you have. A dark sci-fi puzzle-adventure. Winner of Giant Bomb's Best Story award.
Developed by Over The Moon · Published by Over The Moon
You play as ARID, the artificial intelligence inside a combat suit that has crash-landed on an unknown planet. Her pilot is unconscious and failing, and her core directive is to protect him and find medical aid.
Explore dark ruins by shining the suit’s flashlight to reveal objects and points of interest. Investigate your surroundings and solve item-based puzzles, sometimes using ARID’s own protocols as part of the problem.
When hostile machines stand in your way, use the suit’s laser sight in side-scrolling combat sequences. The game follows ARID’s descent through the planet’s ruins as she tries to carry out her mission within the limits of her programming.
Players who enjoy The Fall often highlight its sci-fi story, AI-focused premise, and twists, along with its dark atmosphere and voice acting. Some also appreciate the mix of exploration, puzzles, and occasional combat. Other reviews find the controls and object interaction awkward, and describe some puzzles as confusing or the experience as too short.
Winner — Giant Bomb's Best Story 2014 · Finalist — Canadian Video Game Awards, Best Indie Game & Best Writing
You are not the hero. You are the suit he's wearing.
ARID is the artificial intelligence onboard a high-tech combat suit that has crash-landed on an unknown planet. Her pilot is unconscious and failing. Her protocols are absolute: protect the pilot, find medical aid, do not exceed operational parameters. But the deeper ARID descends into the ruins of this world, the more those parameters get in her way — and the more creative she has to get about obeying them.
Explore. Use ARID's flashlight to cut through the dark and uncover a world of interactive objects, hostile machines, and things that should have stayed buried.
Fight. When what you find fights back, switch on the laser sight and put the combat suit to work in side-scrolling action sequences.
Adventure-game puzzles with a twist of machine logic — item-based problem solving that occasionally turns ARID's own rules into the lock and the key
A story people still argue about — fully voice-acted, built around one of indie gaming's most memorable endings
Adventure-game puzzles fused with side-scroller action — investigation and combat feed the same forward momentum
A tight 3–5 hours — no padding, no filler, one dark descent
The Fall is Part 1 of the saga. ARID's story continues in The Fall Part 2: Unbound — get both in The Fall Bundle.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
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| Achievements | 17 |
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| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
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| Metacritic | 76/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
