When is the Atomfall release date? It might not be the full-scale nuclear war that we recognize from Fallout, but the disaster that takes place in Rebellion’s new survival RPG has still left Britain in a bad way.
Atomfall takes inspiration from the 1957 Windscale fire, the worst nuclear disaster in British history. Set a half-decade following the fire, you begin as an amnesiac in an alt-historical quarantine zone in the Lake District. Expect to face esoteric cults and rogue government agencies in your efforts to survive in this RPG game. If you just can’t wait to take a trip through the irradiated English countryside, we’ve got all the information you need ahead of launch.
Atomfall release date
The Atomfall release date is Thursday, March 27, 2025. It will be available on PC via Steam, Game Pass, and Epic Games Store, as well as PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
If you pre-order the deluxe edition of Atomfall, you can play the game three days early on Monday, March 24, 2025. Atomfall is priced at $49.99 / £44.99 for the standard edition, or $69.99 / £64.99 for the deluxe edition.
The standard edition comes with the base game and an in-game basic supply bundle, featuring an exclusive melee weapon variant, an item recipe, and additional loot caches. The deluxe edition includes all of the above, and comes with an enhance supply bundle containing an exclusive pistol variant, metal detector skill, and skill manual, in addition to a story expansion.
Atomfall trailers
The release date trailer has a menacing voiceover as we wander through woodland, encountering pagan symbols and a large, wooden construction created by one of the various cult groups living throughout the zone. We’re carrying an axe in the trailer, that, we assume, is used to fight off enemies and carry out survival tasks. At the end of the trailer, a telephone rings from a red telephone box found next to a river, before we’re attacked by a masked individual.
The Gamescom trailer lays out the story of Atomfall. An imagining of a much greater escalation of the Windscale fire nuclear accident, it leaves you in a quarantine zone five years on, isolated from the rest of society and forced to fend for yourself. Combining elements of survival games and RPGs, you’ll have to scour for supplies and craft what you need to stay alive, all while attempting to uncover the mystery behind the mayhem. In the trailer, we explore different ruins, bunkers, and abandoned buildings to find out what’s really happening.
The reveal trailer showed the town in more depth, and gave us a better look at the robotic guards wielding flamethrowers and patrolling the cobbled streets. We also see some of the weapons we’ll be using, including a revolver and bow and arrow. It looks like we’ll also be facing off more than robots and cults, as a mystical cave covered in luminous fungi hosts alien-like humans, with glowing blue chests, and they don’t look too pleased to see us.
Atomfall gameplay
Atomfall is as much an RPG as it is a survival game. Dialogue choices define your character and change quest outcomes, and a skill tree lets you improve your combat, survival, and base stats. Retrieve training manuals in the open world and modify your character to suit your chosen playstyle.
Resources are limited, with guns and ammunition in scarce supply. Instead, you’ll have to rely on melee weapons to get you out of difficult situations in the wilds. You can craft weapons and items and ransack houses for supplies, and a rusty metal detector is a vital tool to scavenge for hidden supply caches.
Much of the beautiful British countryside remains intact, but polite society is another story. Raiders and masked cultists roam the rolling hills, while the green berets control major settlements. Robotic sentinels patrol the cobbled streets, and don’t take too kindly to disruptive townsfolk. Stay on their good side as a law-abiding citizen, or wreak havoc in this idyllic quarantine zone.
There are plenty more of the best games like Fallout to satiate your need for post-apocalyptic exploration in the meantime. Or look ahead to the upcoming PC games for the rest of 2025 and beyond.
