Abiotic Factor
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The future of gaming belongs to weird little games
By Evan Lahti published
opinion After Balatro, Animal Well, Content Warning, and Abiotic Factor in 2024, small games from small studios are innovating as well as anyone else.
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'I'm not a big fan of survival games,' says director of 2024's best survival game
By Morgan Park published
news Half-Life-inspired survival game Abiotic Factor has sold 300,000 copies so far.
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Abiotic Factor's first major update adds alien cheese and corpse bags, as the Half-Life inspired survival sim sells 250,000 copies
By Rick Lane published
News What's that smell?
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How to make good soup in Abiotic Factor
By Sarah James published
Souper Good soup gives your character useful buffs.
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I fell in love with Abiotic Factor the minute I strapped a couch cushion to my chest and called it armor—there's no other survival game like it
By Morgan Park published
Scientific Method The co-op survival game climbing the top-sellers chart is making a fantastic first impression.
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Abiotic Factor, a 6-player survival game where you're scientists in a paranormal lab, is rising up Steam's top-sellers chart
By Tyler Wilde published
news Hero of the universe Gordon Freeman? Not this time. In Abiotic Factor, you're one of the lab-coat-wearing nerds in the background.
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The Half-Life vibes are intense in the free Steam demo for co-op survival game Abiotic Factor
By Christopher Livingston published
lambda core And you're even better than Gordon Freeman because you'll actually use your brain for science.
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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
By Christopher Livingston published
news Craft sci-fi weapons and gizmos while battling alien invaders deep in an underground blacksite.
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