Atomfall is a survival-action game set in the rolling British countryside. Atomfall is inspired by the real-life events of the 1957 Windscale disaster in the North of England, picking up the story five years after the fire in a fictionalized quarantine zone.

Opening in the style of a classic 1950s news reel, this latest trailer offers a closer look at Atomfall’s setting in the North of England. Atomfall is inspired by the real-life events of the 1957 Windscale disaster and the story picks up five years later in a fictionalized quarantine zone that encompasses a rolling countryside, valleys, caves and even a picturesque English village.

But this picture-perfect postcard setting is a hostile landscape that hides a dark mystery. To get to the bottom of what happened at Windscale, you will need to navigate military encampments, delve through abandoned bunkers below ground and risk your life in Pagan ruins. Your trusty metal detector will also help you uncover a few secrets buried beneath the surface.

Central to the dark mystery is the host of eccentric characters and cryptic organizations that inhabit the quarantine zone. These individuals have been cut off from the outside world for years and left to their own devices, and are anything but normal. Your interactions with them are important and will shape your journey. But be careful, not all survivors are friendly, and you will need to master an array of ranged and melee weapons if you are to survive.

The new trailer showcases the game’s key features.

Opening in an abandoned bunker five years after a nuclear disaster in Northern England, the trailer shows how players enter the world of Atomfall. In this scene an unnamed worker in a hazmat suit stumbles into your room and asks, "who are you?" This question is just one of the mysteries that players will need to solve if they are to find out what happened at the Windscale atom plant.

From here the trailer teases more of the settings and landscapes that players will need to explore as they get to grips with life inside the quarantine zone. This slice of Northern England includes everything from open moors, rugged hills, dense woodlands and the picture-perfect English village Wyndham. But beware, this is a dangerous and hostile landscape filled with gangs of outlaws, crazed cultists and unexplained horrors. Even the local wildlife poses an immense threat to your life. If you are to navigate this land and survive, you will need to fight for your life and scavenge resources.

Atomfall is packed with a cast of quirky and eccentric characters that you will meet on your journey. These people have been isolated from the world for some time and while many have adopted a "keep calm and carry on" mentality, some have sought to seize power and twisted events for their own gain. Others have even slipped into more nefarious ways… Your interactions with these characters will uncover various leads, secrets and story threads that will help you discover the truth of what happened during the Windscale disaster. But, needless to say, not everyone you meet means you well and deciding who to trust in the quarantine zone is a matter of life or death.

Pre-orders for Atomfall are now live 

Key Features:

• A single-player survival-action game, drawing from science fiction, folk horror and Cold War influences to create a world that is eerily familiar yet completely alien
• Explore a dark and foreboding world with varying environments and locations 
• Uncover leads through investigation, exploration, conversation and combat as you attempt to solve a mystery inspired by classic British science fiction such as The Day of the Triffids, early Doctor Who, and The Quatermass Experiment
• Desperate high-stakes combat blends expert marksmanship with vicious hand-to-hand combat
• Craft items and weapons that may save your life, ransack ruined houses for supplies and even unearth hidden treasures using your trusty metal detector
• Define your character through interactions with NPCs, light RPG elements and skill trees

Atomfall is coming to PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC (Steam) on March 27, 2025. It is coming day one to Game Pass.