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Investigate a nuclear mystery in quarantined Britain, scavenging, crafting, bartering, and fighting as you seek a way out.
Released 27 Mar 2025
Investigate Through Clues
Barter For Supplies
Manage Heart Rate
A nuclear disaster has left an area of Britain in tatters. Atomfall, a new survival-action game, will see you explore, scavenge, craft, barter and fight your way through beautifully recreated scenery in search of answers.
Developed by Rebellion · Published by Rebellion
Set five years after a nuclear disaster in Northern England, Atomfall places you in a fictional quarantine zone among rural villages, bunkers, cults, and government forces. You explore the isolated region to uncover what happened and find a way out.
Explore connected areas, search for supplies, craft weapons and useful items, and barter with traders. Combat mixes firearms with hand-to-hand fighting, while scarce ammunition and a heart-rate system that affects aiming make encounters demanding. You can also use stealth or conversation to navigate dangers.
The mystery unfolds through clues, conversations, and investigation leads rather than a single fixed route. Help different characters and factions, pursue their competing plans, and make choices that affect relationships and which of several endings you reach. Skills and weapon improvements offer additional progression.
Players who enjoy Atomfall often point to its distinct rural British setting, eerie atmosphere, and exploration-led investigations, where clues and conversations help them piece together what is happening. Some also appreciate the freedom to approach leads and choose faction paths, along with tense resource-limited combat. Others find the inventory restrictions frustrating, criticize clunky combat or stealth, and feel the story or its resolutions do not deliver enough clarity or payoff.
A survival-action game inspired by real-life events, Atomfall is set five years after the Windscale nuclear disaster in Northern England.
Explore the fictional quarantine zone, scavenge, craft, barter, fight and talk your way through a British countryside setting filled with bizarre characters, mysticism, cults, and rogue government agencies.
From Rebellion, the studio behind Sniper Elite and Zombie Army, Atomfall will challenge you to solve the dark mystery of what really happened.
Player Driven Mystery: Unravel a tapestry of interwoven narratives through exploration, conversation, investigation, and combat, where every choice you make has consequences.
Search, Scavenge, Survive: You’ll need to scavenge for supplies, craft weapons and items, and fight desperately to make it out alive!
Desperate Combat: With weapons and ammunition scarce, each frenetic engagement will see you blend marksmanship with vicious hand-to-hand combat. Manage your heart rate to hold a steady aim and ensure you have the energy you need to reach for your cricket bat and land the killer blow.
Green and Unpleasant Land: The picturesque British countryside, with rolling green hills, lush valleys, and rural villages belie the dangers that await you. Navigate cult-controlled ruins, natural caves, nuclear bunkers and more as you explore this dense, foreboding world.
Reimagining Windscale: A fictional reimagining of a real-world event, Atomfall draws from science fiction, folk horror, and Cold War influences to create a world that is eerily familiar yet completely alien.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 54 |
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| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 5 listed on Steam |
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| Website | Official website |
