Abiotic Factor

Great game Great content Great story Great survival Great pests Great guns Great style Great Great Great.

I believe at the time of this review I'm approaching the final bits of content of the last update before v1.0 launch. As a standalone survival game, this is honestly one of the most "breath of fresh air" survival games I've played. The concept of attempting to hunker down and stay alive in a facility being overrun by different factions is a fascinating choice, where you're trying to find the safest office, or the most scenic base spot that has a plug nearby. Food/water is actually enjoyable to manage and if you're not fond of it you can fine tune any setting you want, from hunger values to stack sizes and item weights. It's a sandbox survival game so really you can fine tune the game to be as convenient or difficult as you want. Plenty of items to where you're constantly going "Ooooh, what's that?" when you see the notification flash on your screen. And surprisingly, transmogrification- so when you find that cool but statistically useless gear piece, you can actually use it without detriment. This and MANY other QoL features that you acquire by natural gameplay have you constantly feeling like you're making progress, and give you goals to always work forward. Now, for a biased take, but if you've ever played HL1, this game will feel right at home. The inspirations are immediately apparent from the style of the games visuals to the way characters are voiced/animated, even down to enemies. The first time you step through a portal you're going to think you're in Xen for a moment. The crossbow AND crowbar are in this game. This isn't even touching the "containment" portion of the game as well. I will never not recommend this game because it's a clear love letter to Half-Life fans while being a unique spin on the game genre, and then turning into so much more with the story, while still hitting all the weird otherworldly feelings HL brought. Buy it full send.

extremely fun game. Loved exploring the facility, the story/lore, and all the fun gadgets you unlock. Can't wait for more

One of the only games that I would willingly play over and over again without being tired of it. And because of the unique mechanic of the death bag re-spawning into the office security upon re-login is a bliss for my mind

My personal experience was enhanced greatly with the Cackle Factor mod. Asides from that, though, this is a very delightful and unique love-letter to Half-Life that I can appreciate. The level design and sound design are spot-on, and the creatures are equally terrifying. Now, if you'll excuse me, I must hunt for more pest rump meat. . .

Love the vibe, the graphics, and the gameplay. Humor is very good, and there's just the right amount of jank to make it feel like an old half life game.

game is awesome and fun but PLEASE I AM BEGGING ADD A BETTER WAY TO NAVIGATE THE MAP I KEEP GETTING LOST

A developer who actually cares and seemingly plays the game themselves is rare, but this game has that. From start to finish the personality from the devs shine through, and there is no stone left unturned. This takes me back to being a kid and playing some of my favorite games before our corporate capitalist overlords sucked the fun out of gaming. Honestly a breath of fresh air and the best money I have spent on a video game in a very very long time.

Masterful take on the survival genre. The world and lore are rich, detailed, and well-written. The map is genuinely the best it can be. It is not procedurally generated, and as such it is massively interconnected and full of shortcuts ala Dark Souls 1. The crafting and gathering are mostly quick and painless, requiring just the right amount of grind to get some more advanced pieces of gear. The combat and fishing are not THAT good but they're serviceable. Highly worth it, even full price. Plays perfectly with friends as well.

A fun game, similar vibes to that one SCP-3008 game. It is an absolutely chill vibe, even when it's supposed to be scary. To me this game is kinda like a lovable squishy that I like to curl up with when I'm having a bad day. It's a relatively simple core game-play loop, but one which will leave you happy and entertained.

Abiotic Factor is one of the best survival games ever made, if you like half life/SCP youll love this game

Awesome HL1 inspired survival-craft game. Great with friends or solo

Very immersive storydriven survival game where you become an scientist searching for answers (and a way out). love this game, its perfekt [h3]Buy it[/h3] [h2]NOW[/h2]

Отличная игра, которую даже как то стыдно называть "выживачом". Это прям метроидвания/иммерсив сим. После такого не хочется играть вот в эти все эншрауды и конаны, чтобы утолить жажду пве прогрессии и базостроительства. Потому что если в вышеперечисленных играх мы попадаем на громадную пустую карту, по которой разбросаны точки интереса, в абиотичном факторе мы УЖЕ внутри одной огромной точке интереса, а именно - в большом НИИ, который поделен на различные производственные и не очень сектора (да еще и включает в себя порталы в иные измерения со своим вайбом и ресурсами). И вот путешествие по этому комплексу и общая прогрессия это прям фишка игры. Мы тут и там встречаем закрытые двери, которые сможем открыть позже, с помощью крафта крякера; где то недоступные нам уступы, на которые просто так не запрыгнуть, но можно скрафтить переносной батут и залезть туда; сразу же видим остановки для местного общественного транспорта, которые сможем открыть позже. Каждый сектор комплекса несет за собой новых врагов, ресурсы и рецептеки для крафта. Т.е. это именно что топ игра о прогрессии, а не просто песочница со вкраплениями пве контента, слегка спрыснутого на огромную пустую карту. А вот элементы выживача сперва задушили. Настолько, что я дропнул игру сперва, не дойдя дальше первого портала. Спустя год все таки превозмог и прошел дальше. Задушили типичные для выживачей вещи - мелкий инвентарь, который надо опорожнять слишком часто, да еще и верстак не подтягивает ресурсы из близлежащих контенейров (которые тоже мелкие). Все эти вещи фиксятся позже в игре, когда мы находим и рюкзак попросторнее, и апгрейд на верстак, который таки начнет брать ресы из контейнеров, ну и сами контейнеры расширятся. Далее эти элементы не напрягали. Об общей эстетике сказать особо нечего, вот этот рекламируемый вайб ученых из первого халфлайфа присутствует, но не сказал бы, что он прям обратил на себя внимание. Озвучка кринжовая - это точно. Графон нормальный, хотя статтеры перемещения между локациями напрягают. Экипировка, сделанная из говна и палок по началу тоже не привлекают, но чем дальше, тем приличнее она выглядит.

I love crafting/survival games but i find i usually get bored of them quickly due to the feeling of repetitiveness and lack of a goal. Abiotic Factor is a gem! Your'e not just another dude stuck in the wilderness breaking rocks and sticks and building a base waiting for a horde of something to come smashing it down -rinse repeat. You are a scientist stuck in an underground facility that's been taken over by some fanatics and now chaos has ensued and you have to figure out a way out of this mess. As you collect items around GATE facility, you will come up with new ideas to help you along the way, and the experiment subjects (known as "IS-") are on the loose hindering you along the way. Some of these things are down right SCARY! :'(. I also love all the little details that go into this game that might not seem that important to others but i find it cute <3 Such as scooting around a rolling office chair, or holding onto the top of my cup of coffee when i enter a sprinting animation <3 Honestly money well spent! I love a game with such a good story yet at the same time can leisurely dink around collecting items and exploring the facility, it feels like there's always new areas with nooks and crannies to discover. Best game I have played in ages!

Solid game. Easy to play with friends after a long day of work. I juggle law school, my three jobs and cannot really spend much time palying games anymore. So, Abiotic does me a huge solid for being an amazing game to jump into. If you want to follow the storyline, fine. But I just play with friends after a hard day's work smashing creatures from the beyond. Easy enough.

This game is my boyfriends and i's new passtime. We cant get enough of it. it checks alot of boxes for the both of us and has this odd cozy feel to the mechanics. though a bit jank this is a hidden gem game and deserves so much more praise! truly feels like an early 2010s type game and we love it! Thank you devs for making such a great game! its very hard to find games that both of us like so much.

Another EA game bought on a whim to play with a friend. I then proceeded to play over 100hrs within the refund period. I did not expect this game to be as good as it is and it's not even finished yet. Games like these restore my faith in the EA system. While there are some performance issues that I hope are addressed soon, this game is so goddamn fun and there is so much to it. That feeling of unlocking better equipment as you delve deeper into the absurd madness of science and occultism. It has it's difficulty spikes but it's all manageable as long as you prepare yourself properly. [spoiler] Leyak is a sweet boy pls no bully [/spoiler]

You can feel the love and care poured into this game in every corner of every map. At 33,99€, it's an absolute steal for something so thoughtfully and meticulously crafted. The lore is rich, the voice acting is phenomenal, and the devs genuinely listen to feedback. Honestly, there's not much more you could ask for in a game :)

I cannot believe how much content this has gotten since the demo ~1 year ago Genuinely might be one of the best games of all time

Do you like survival games but think theyre a little too open with nothing to really do? Do you like SCP/Black Mesa/Half Life? Play this game. You won't regret it. I'm almost 50 hours in solo and haven't even completed the game once. I will say I think it would be better with friends - but that shouldn't stop you. It's amazing.

i brought the game when it came out and now that im at 100 hours i love this game my favourite survival game 10/10 much better than generic survival game on abandon island

Tl;dr: Top-tier, well crafted Half Life 1 meets SCP meets survivalcraft, outstanding in pretty much all aspects, bug-free even before 1.0. It's PvE-oriented so no night shifts or dealing with cheaters. This game is currently a hard contender for my favorite survivalcraft ever. Abiotic Factor tackles the genre with a equanimity and ingenuity that I haven't seen yet. It bridges the the span between linear and open gameplay with such grace that it left me baffled. The survival, combat and exploration gameplay are so well and fairly balanced with each other that I probably won't be able to enjoy other open world survival crafts with the same joy. The game does not let you loose on the world, you unlock one zone after another by completing objectives, which normally unlocks new items and ways to play the game. It's like Black Mesa survival edition and it really delivers on the promise. The Labs and worlds you get to see all feel different and unique, and the inhabitants and characters you meet are beautifully voiced. The humor is just right, it's there and absurd enough to fit the setting without turning the game into a complete joke. None of the mechanics ever feels tedious or grindy. Your hunger and thirst go down fast enough to keep you on your toes, but they never become tedious to manage. Item progression is just right, and the amount of early resources you need for later vs. new ones you find never makes you farm down a zone multiple times. By completing and pocketing a zone you always have just enough to press on. Durability and ammo management feel meaningful without you having to drag around a workbench and repairing on the go, and using duct tape as insta-repair just goes with the tone of the game. Each new zone means new resources, and all the items you unlock then feel like you are actually making technological progress. You'll be going from knives strapped to a stick to magnetic bows and laser beams. Each tool or weapon is unique, and many have uses later on as well. Some come with unique ammo mechanics like lasers that can be recharged by cranking them or a biological weapon that needs to drink nuclear waste to reload. The level design is something to behold, and the game strongly encorages exploration and gives you multiple ways to an objective. Combat encompasses all distances and styles: Melee, long-range, stealth, bombs, traps and pets, and you'll fight a large range of enemies, ranging from beasts to robots to soldiers to the Secreta Secretorum from E.Y.E Divine Cybermancy. Completing the game up to the end of the current update, Dark Energy, felt like a multiversal odyssey that even games like Remnant were not able to really catch well. The lore and stories of all the characters and inhabitants of the world are fleshed out sufficiently, and the secrets and tidbits that await explorers are always worthwhile. Some downsides do come to show after a longer playtime: The combat does not hold up for a super long time, and enemy models and damage models are somewhat obscure, you don't really know if headshots work, where weakpoints are and the hydroplant and reactor chapters are quite combat-heavy, so it can get a bit tedious. The second problem is that progress is server-bound, so you have to start from scratch every time you join a new server, and new skills take ages to grind out. After almost 80 hours I still don't have certain skills at max. Talking of skills, some don't really have good or interesting perks or items. Throwing for example is almost impossible to level because grenades and explosives do not really level the skill. First aid and fortitude required you to get hit thousands of times, and failure-based gameplay kinda sucks. None of this was too frustrating, I still had so much fun. Even if this game would never be finished I can wholeheartedly recommend it in its current state, it's an easy 9/10.

I love this game! It has a amazing story line and is overall fun. It's a game you can play with friends of by yourself. Base building is on point.

I like this game. The textures are a little 2005 ish, but the game play and story are good. But the thing crashes repeatedly. Every thirty or so minutes I go to the boot record. I've updated all my drivers, run a memory test, changed the anti-aliasing settings and it's still a crash fest. Unplayable sadly on my very adequate machine. Asked for a refund probably won't get one because I spent too much time trying to find a fix and actually enjoying some of the game. 32gig RAM i9-11900 Nvidia RTX 4060 TI

You can stop reading reviews now. *points gun* buy the game. *cocks gun* no seriously.

So there I was in vc with the boys, thinking this would be another indie early access game we'd toss away after one session. Yeah, it's been a few long nights. Turns out this game is pretty amazing, Buy it.

The game is great. Really cool and interesting lore. The graphics are perfect for me and fit the whole game. There are some minor bugs but they don't affect the gameplay that much. The rating of the whole game is 9.6/10. P.S. Deep Field, don't throw the main programmer out of discord all the time.

The best survival, Half-Life like game so far on steam can't wait for the 1.0 release

Excellent game! Great with friends, great solo. Imagine half life, but you get to build your own cozy base while you're figuring out how to get outta there.

I honestly don't have one bad thing to say about this game. It's a GREAT game and the devs did an amazing job. 10/10

High quality game. Great for solo and even better with friends.

Beautiful game from design details, to progression mechanics, and general gameplay. Best enjoyed coop, but totally doable in solo. Great survival craft experience that harkens back to games like half life in terms of aesthetics. Love it. Well done devs!

The game throws completely unexpected surprises your way all the time. You never know what you might uncover next as you explore the facility.

Amazing story that keeps you HOOKED once you start getting into the audio logs and email systems. I cannot wait to see the final result of this game it has been an absolute blast trying to solve the puzzles of each area while surviving against all the enemies. There are definitely moments where I was absolutely stumped and tempted into looking up guides but I promise you it is well worth your while to explore every corner and just try to think like you're one of Cascade's finest scientists trying to escape. It is so rewarding when you make that next big leap in progress or discover a new area. My only warning is I would say consider running a custom mode and cranking down the survival aspects of the game so you can spend more time focused on the story, crafting and problem solving as these are the funnest parts of the game imo. 9/10 so far for me.

I think this quite possibly could be my favourite game of all time. While currently awaiting the final 1.0 release, I decided to replay the game and I haven't been able to put it down. The graphics, while intentionally 1998-esque brings an authentic charm to its Half-Life homage and to its 1993 setting. While the game has a simple narrative, which I won't spoil, the game contains a ton of interesting and deep lore, and ensures to keep throwing new curve balls to keep your ever nearing goal just out of reach. The gameplay itself is a blast, combining elements from a variety of popular survival games (think Project Zomboid, The Forest, etc) with the elaborate puzzle and combat of Half-Life creates a compelling loop that always keeps you hanging around for just 5 more minutes. I look forward to seeing the games conclusion (and potential additional content down the track), and the developer's further endeavours which I also look forward to playing.

This game man is SO FUN especially with friends. you can mess with your buds or just set up an extravagant base to destroy your enemies I mean theirs SO many different ways you can play. Melee? Got it! Range? Got it! too lazy for those both?! Thats fine when you get to a certain point you can just set up laser turrets in certain areas and makes farming easy. Not to mention the Dev team actively listens to their community in their discord. If you are sitting on this game I highly recommend it as they plan to add some more content as the months go on

Honestly dude anyone thinking of buying this game it's one of the most creative and ambitious games I've ever played period it's difficult and challenging but holy is this game worth it.

Super fun and challenging survival game! All kinds of things to build, stuff to do and secrets to find! (Holy F$#k the amount of secrets!) Epic game though, i highly recommend for those into survival type games!

I originally wrote this game off as a "two week game" and didn't give it a try around the early access launch. I've sunk nearly 72 hours into this game at the time of writing this review and stand by the fact this game is absolutely astounding. The closest game I can compare this to is Prey (2017) but with a Half-Life flourish on it. I highly recommend picking this game up even with the price increase, it's well worth it and I encourage it with at least one other person or more.

I love how weird and chaotic this game is. Wish I had more people to enjoy it with me as it would make it much easier with helping hands!

Probably one of the best games I have played on Steam in a good couple of years, Great Game, Great Story overall the developers hit the mark with this game 20/10

Amazing survival game that has an interesting story while the horror factor also always keeps you looking over your shoulder.

This game has been the PERFECT mix of story, world building, survival and mood all wrapped into a game that can be enjoyed by anyone.

this early access game feels infinitely more complete than any AAA games these days, 10/10, best money spent on a game in a very long time

this game feels like a successor to half-life and i'm still mad they still ain't starting production half-life three

I never write reviews, but this is by far the best game i have ever played, absolutely loved it , just did the whole game in 60 hrs on my main server , and noticed in the wiki that i haven't even gotten the laser weapons , going to start a new run straight away with the knowledge i have now, its going to be even more fun ....... just try the game its totally worth every cent for the people wondering how its in multiplayer, best is to progress with friends together so one doesn't push too far, we had a no going forward unless all have the hacking tool rule. it works but best if you really just play when everyone is together

Earned my PhD, drank some coffee, ran for the toilet because I needed to poop then suddenly I am in the poop dimension. 11/10 absolute masterpiece. On a side note, this game gave me the same feeling of relaxation and addiction as Raft.

Basically a very quirky and fun SciFi survival and base building game, with obvious nods to mad scientist tropes and games like Half Life 1. Think: "What would have happened in Black Mesa, when all the protagonists were scrawny, yet brilliant (and mad) scientists?" All the maps are handmade, as the game follows a certain story, which is narrated both by NPCs and log entries in text form - and most logs are both interesting and good for a chuckle. Even in its early access state, I can heartily recommend this game. Best play and experience it with friends!

I have played this game for a while, and I absolutely do recommend it (I do not lie when I say that this is worth the cost)! (Sorry for my grammar) It's a Half-Life-style game that is best played with friends. I have not seen any "game-breaking" bugs, and I believe that this game has a bright future. I have only gotten stuck midway through the game for some time in the [spoiler]Mall with zombies[/spoiler], and there are also some materials that you really need to look for, but they are not crucial. (This is a combat-based game, and there will be attacks on your base if you decide to make one.) AND if you like fishing, there are a lot of fish, with each having a "rare" variant! I honestly put this game next to Forest (because of the bosses and the way you make a base). (As I write this review, this game is still in early access, so there may be changes to the game that do not correspond with this review.)