Abiotic Factor News

This co-op survival game looks like a mad scientist's mashup of Lethal Company and Half-Life—and there's a demo out now

Yeah, I know, there have already been a couple big co-op survival games released in just the past week, the record-smashing monster-managing Palworld and sprawling fantasy RPG Enshrouded...
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Playtest 2 Has Ended

[h2]Greetings, esteemed colleagues![/h2]

We want to thank everyone who helped to make our first public playtest a huge success! Over 60,000 scientists gave it their all! Thank you for playing the alpha playtest of Abiotic Factor. We saw a lot of awesome bases and followed tons of streamers on their adventures through the GATE Cascade Research Facility.

[h2]We Want Your Feedback![/h2]

If you have not yet left playtest feedback you can do so by filling out this form:
Playtester Feedback Form

Also check out this form to help us improve accessibility options in the game:
Accessibility Feedback Form

The forms will be open until January 7th PST.

[h2]Couldn't Make It?[/h2]

If you missed the playtest (or didn't get enough) - don't fret. There will be more opportunities to get your hands on the game before the launch.

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Playtest Closing Soon!

Greetings, scientists!

As of this posting there are 48 hours left to go in this playtest! As of January 1st, 12:00 PM PST the playtest app will no longer be available to launch so make sure you get in all the inventing and exploring you want to before it goes offline!

Be sure to check this time zone breakdown below to know when exactly things will be shut down in your area:

PDT: Monday, 1 Jan. @ 12:00 PM
MST: Monday, 1 Jan. @ 1:00 PM
CST: Monday, 1 Jan. @ 2:00 PM
EST: Monday, 1 Jan. @ 3:00 PM
GMT: Monday 1 Jan. @ 8:00 PM
NZDT: Tuesday, 2 Jan. @ 9:00 AM

Thank you so much for checking out the playtest, providing bug reports, gameplay suggestions and helping us make Abiotic Factor the best it can be!

Remember to also wishlist the game and follow us on twitter and youtube!

Half-Life reimagined as a new multiplayer survival game, playable now

Black Mesa is a dangerous place. Collapsing walkways, exploding pipes, laser beams burning through the walls. And that's not to mention the headcrabs, barnacles, and special forces soldiers all trying to chew you up and spit you out. Gordon Freeman is protected by the good old HEV suit, but what about the unfortunate science team? We've all seen them, dangling off ladders and getting caught by the HECU satchel charges. The Half-Life scientists remain some of the most iconic NPCs in all of PC gaming. Now, a new multiplayer survival game essentially casts you as the Black Mesa research team, trapped underground, caught between invading aliens and hostile military clean-up crews. With shades of The Forest and Lethal Company, it's available to play on Steam right now.

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I urge you to playtest Abiotic Factor, a survival game about scientists trapped in a vast underground black site

So you're a scientist who works in one of those science-fictional giant underground research facilities—your Black Mesa, SCP Foundation, The Loop, what have you—and the day arrives where the big science catastrophe goes down and everyone's dying left and right and there's a horrible cascade of alternate dimensions and weird aliens pouring in. That's the setup for Abiotic Factor, an upcoming solo to six-player survival game that you can playtest for free, right now, via Steam...
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