
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
Updates
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Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 687 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
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positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Reviews
I love this game
you can poo in the soup
一个人玩了开头几章,好玩到舍不得玩下去。。强行寸止了等朋友购入
I originally played this a little bit back on gamepass when I had a few months and was trying out a bunch of games to see what I actually wanted to buy. I played a few hours and really enjoyed this game. So now I finally pick it up on steam and come to find out there is a bug with using a controller when in the menus. I feel like sometimes I notice it while moving around as well but not 100% positive on that. It's like the game forgets you have a controller for a few seconds before working again. This is super annoying. What baffles me is, I don't remember this happening on gamepass on PC as it would have bothered me there. Why does it only exist on the steam version? I'm probably going to grab PC gamepass for a month for another game here at the end of July and so if this game is still there, will try it out of curiosity. Either way, I've never ever had a game basically break gamepad support at random while playing and basically flip between MnK and Gamepad. Such a weird bug. Shame it appears to be an issue going back at least well over a year. Means it will never get fixed. Totally sucks the enjoyment out of the game.
I've put off this game for a long time because that it's under the horror genre but I finally got to play it together with my husband. We both had an amazing time playing this game and we love the way the map connects. There's so much to explore, so many different things you can craft, and the combat was fun. My husband isn't normally one that enjoys playing craft survival games for long but we've played this for 90+ hours with him insisting we play almost everyday of the week when we usually play games once a week. He was addicted! We started playing when they just added pets so that was a bonus for me as these pets are able to assist you in battles as well. The game was longer than expected and I was actually a bit sad when I realized I reached the end. We are both looking forward to the next update, hopefully we will find time to play it again soon!! 100% recommend if you're looking for a game to play with a friend or partner!
Got the funny number in hours, have to review. This is one of the best games I've ever played.
Maybe this game just isn't set up for single player, but it just feels like they want you to discover and explore things with your face and then laughs at you when you die. "Hrm, where's that turre-" BANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANG Dead, lose 50% hunger and thirst, return to base. "Huh, what does this beehive structure d-" Dead, lose 50% hunger and thirst, return to base. This is a game built around exploring and discovering the amazing, hand-crafted maps and engaging with the in-depth crafting system, and then it just punishes you for doing any of that. It's crazy.
Very fun survival game with a Silent Hill Bloodborne Resident Evil 4 Super Mario 64 and many other peak heavy inspirations
So good, cozy game, devs actually care and release 50000 free updates
What if Half-Life was a survival crafter. Pretty good/fun.
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