Abiotic Factor

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Roadmap About the Game 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.

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Release date:
22 July 2025
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Recent Steam reviews:
Overwhelmingly Positive
All Steam reviews:
Overwhelmingly Positive (25472)
User tags*:AdventureSci-fiExplorationImmersive SimSandbox

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Co-op

Description

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About the Game

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!

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

Requirement 1:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS:
Windows 10 or later
Processor:
i5-9th Gen CPU or similar
Memory:
8 GB RAM
Graphics:
GeForce GTX 1660 or AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT
DirectX:
Version 11
Network:
Broadband Internet connection
Storage:
10 GB available space
Additional Notes:
There are slightly higher CPU requirements if you are the Host in a multiplayer session, especially with several players. Abiotic Factor runs on Unreal Engine 5. In spite of the art style, this will probably not run on your PC from 1997.

recommended*

Requirement 1:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS:
Windows 10 or later
Processor:
i5-11th Gen CPU or similar
Memory:
16 GB RAM
Graphics:
GeForce RTX 3070 or AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT or better
DirectX:
Version 12
Network:
Broadband Internet connection
Storage:
10 GB available space
Additional Notes:
There are slightly higher CPU requirements if you are the Host in a multiplayer session, especially with several players. Abiotic Factor runs on Unreal Engine 5. In spite of the art style, this will probably not run on your PC from 1997.

User reviews

Caramell Sundoffe
Recommended | 24 Feb 2026
317h played

I have a crippling addiction to this game and I want more content to feed it.

Helpful: 52
~Starryhorizon|:|
Recommended | 15 Feb 2026
171h played

I have been waiting to write a review until I got so far into the game/finished it. But after 120 hours, I think I have to say I am loving this game! The immediate feeling is of a modern Half-Life, getting stuck in an underground facility that's full of monsters and military, with parkour and puzzles. But it just keeps on getting better and better as you play, which is crazy because I had thought it was probably

Helpful: 27
CrayFray
Recommended | 23 Feb 2026
86.6h played

I'm now hitting endgame in Abiotic Factor (finally) after ~80 hours, with 3 playthroughs before that ended up dead in the water after ~12 hours. My feelings for this game are complicated, though generally positive. I will give it my best shot to give the most concise version of these feelings in this review. Abiotic Factor is primarily split between Campaign and Survival progression. Campaign moves the narrative

Helpful: 10