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As a stranded GATE scientist, scavenge a breached underground lab, craft improvised gear, and explore solo or with up to five others.
Released 22 Jul 2025
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Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.
Developed by Deep Field Games · Published by Playstack
You are a GATE scientist caught in a containment disaster deep beneath the surface. With paranormal entities, invading forces, and damaged security systems in your way, you must survive the facility and work toward escape.
Explore a sprawling research complex and worlds beyond it, searching offices and labs for supplies and clues. Fight or evade threats, open routes between areas, and manage needs such as hunger, thirst, sleep, and bathroom breaks.
Turn scavenged materials into tools, weapons, and equipment, then make a base in a reclaimed room and prepare for further expeditions. Choose a scientific specialty, develop skills through use, and unlock new recipes and abilities as you progress, alone or in a group of up to six.
In this sample, players often praise the interconnected facility and the discoveries that come from exploring it, along with crafting and progression that make scavenged materials feel useful. Reviews also highlight the unusual scientist-in-a-disaster setting, environmental storytelling, and the fun of dividing tasks with friends. Some players, however, describe later stretches as grindy or tedious, and mention navigation, combat balance, or the ending as frustrations.
Home to the world's greatest minds, GATE operates a global network of secretive research laboratories, spanning every field of scientific study - and the realms beyond.
As a GATE employee you extend the bounds of human knowledge, and seek to explain the unexplainable - including anomalies and paranormal entities: from gravity-distorting artifacts to supernatural creatures with an unbridled instinct for violence. Safety, security, and secrecy are of the utmost importance… usually.
After a catastrophic containment breach, your workplace has become a cosmic battle zone: anomalous entities are on the loose, enemies from other dimensions are invading via portals, and an arcane military sect - known as The Order - is targeting personnel and entities indiscriminately, aiming to seize artifacts and put an end to the chaos.
Containment procedures have failed and help isn’t on the way. Stranded miles beneath the surface, it’s up to you and your fellow scientists to band together, plan your escape, and make this underground complex your new home - for now.
Abiotic Factor brings a 90’s sci-fi twist and rich character progression to the multiplayer open world survival crafting genre. Up to 6 players can choose their PhDs, build their scientist, gear up, and explore a massive subterranean complex, filled with supernatural artifacts, transdimensional foes, and science experiments gone awry.
Between alien threats hunting their next meal, trigger happy soldiers, and the world’s most advanced robotic security forces attacking personnel working overtime, there’s no shortage of danger. As a scientist, fighting isn’t your forte, so you’ll need to put your PhD to work to outwit your opponents: craft ingenious and outlandish tools, weapons and gear, from simple nets and wooden bats to laser-cannons and elaborate traps - everything your big science brain can muster!
Make yourself at home - you’re here for the long haul. Scavenge resources from vacant offices and empty labs, raid vending machines, and steal company property to build a new base of operations as you explore the facility. When it’s time for a change of scenery, pack up your belongings and move them across the facility using handcarts, forklifts, SUVs, teleporters, and more.
Don your lab coat and earn your PhD: from Phytogenetic Botanist to Defense Analyst and Archotechnic Consultant (and many, many more), each with its own advantages essential to survival. Combine traits and skills, then level up to earn perks and abilities with your fellow scientists to forge a formidable scientific force.
Working at GATE may have been a dream job, but dying here wasn’t part of your five year plan. Explore this massive underground facility as well as many worlds beyond and take full advantage of the most advanced technology unknown to mankind in this interdimensional sci-fi adventure!
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 53 |
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| Players | 1–6 |
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| Multiplayer | Abiotic Factor supports single-player and cooperative multiplayer. Official store text states 1-6 players and up to 6 players. Steam features list Online Co-op, LAN Co-op, and Cross-Platform Multiplayer. The provided information indicates cooperative PvE play, not PvP. |
| Multiplayer & mods | One review states the game has mod support and another mentions mods could expand the game, but no provided source states how mods work in multiplayer. No fact-based multiplayer mod behavior is confirmed from the provided information. |
| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 3 listed on Steam |
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