When is the Atomfall release date? It might not be the full-scale nuclear war that predates Fallout 4 and its recent, fan-made, and highly praised successor, Fallout London, but the disaster that gives us a new survival RPG, Atomfall, has still left Britain in a bad way.
Atomfall comes from Sniper Elite creator, Rebellion, and takes inspiration from the real-life Windscale fire nuclear accident of 1957. Scrapping through a quarantined society, you have to face everything from cults to rogue government agencies as you do your best to survive in this RPG game. Thanks to a recent release date trailer, we now know exactly when we can get our hands on this next taste of the British wasteland in this survival game.
Atomfall release date
The Atomfall release date is Thursday, March 27, 2025, as confirmed by the official release date trailer in November. 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
Much of the beautiful British countryside remains intact, but society certainly doesn’t. Raiders and bizarre, masked factions roam the streets. Resources are limited, with guns and ammunition in particularly scarce supply given the setting, meaning you’ll have to rely on melee weapons to get you out of many sticky situations.
It’s unclear whether Atomfall has base building elements, but you can craft weapons and items and ransack houses for supplies, changing your character by interactions with villagers and using a skill tree. You also have a rusty metal detector that you can use to scavenge for supplies and find secrets in the world.
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 2024 and beyond.
