
Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.
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About

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!
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Languages: English*, French, German, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish - Latin America*languages with full audio support
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Hours played at review time, across 717 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
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Reviews
喜欢玩生存建造的有福了
Всем советую, всем рекомендую, для тех, кто любит исследовать и созидать. Интересный опыт в плане выживания, 1 из первых моих "выживалок".
The Portal Boys be Portaling!
Great game, can body block doors for friends and annoy the crap out of them. Then my pet Peccary "Chungus" took after me and body blocked as well. 10/10
好玩到爆炸
Great game, really enjoyed playing through it. I loved that the game generally fed you the resources that you needed as you progresssed, so it was rare that I had to go and "farm" or "grind". I loved that they built the map around accessability, meaning that as you exploded you opened shorcuts back to the main hub area, which meant you didn't have to run around so much to get places, the layout was very very well thought out and that is appreciated. Story was fun and well written. I didn't read all of the journal entries and such, as there was simply so many, but I can see a lot of work went into it and again - appreciated. I think the only thing I was surprised by is how much game there actually is, it took me about 50-60h to finish it, after the first 30h or so toggled the difficulty way down so I could move through it more quickly, but I think at the regular difficulty it would have been 100+h. Anyhow, highly recommend if you're looking for a fun fps/survival experience with good combat, exploration, story, etc.
It is actually one of the best survival games you could ever buy. I may have low hours in it, but I have fallen completely in love with the game.
Ótima experiência survival para se jogar solo ou com amigos. Senti uma mistura de Half life, Project zomboid e Scp nesse jogo. Ainda não o finalizei, mas a história por si só já é muito atrativa para qualquer amante de jogos survival e horror!
I for one like many other people can be very wishy washy on survival crafting games. There are some I like and some I hate. But I genuinely have to say that this is hands down one of the best games I've played in a really long time! I love this game SO MUCH! I had such a blast exploring this game and seeing so much of what it has to offer! I just finished my first playthrough at 115 hours and i still want to keep playing because there's so much i haven't done, whether it be maxing out all my skills, unlocking all the recipes catching all the fish, building out my base, setting up an intricate portal system, getting all the achievements, etc. i have lots to do and i want to do them all! I am so so SO excited to see everything they have in store for the future! EDIT: My hours say 37.8 because i mostly play it on my laptop offline so my games never show my actual playtime which is a bummer.
Master class ! la définition même qu'il ne faut pas juger un livre à sa couverture.
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