You should buy our favorite co-op survival game of 2024 on sale now for $20—because the price goes up to $35 in May

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We had a tough call last year awarding our GOTY for best survival game—it ultimately went to single-player driving survival game Pacific Drive, but only by a razor thin margin because of these two words: Abiotic Factor.

Abiotic Factor is basically what would happen if all those unfortunate science nerds Gordon Freeman left behind in the first Half-Life game starred in their own co-op survival adventure: you cobble together weapons and gear from space science parts, battle horrifying interdimensional monsters, and survive in a massive secret scientific complex.

And yet, there's more. Anyone who buys Abiotic Factor in early access (including those who bought it already) will receive the Supporter's Edition for free—though what's in that edition hasn't been revealed yet (Deep Field Games says it will be detailed in an upcoming blog).

Abiotic Factor - Pricing Announcement - YouTube

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Chris started playing PC games in the 1980s, started writing about them in the early 2000s, and (finally) started getting paid to write about them in the late 2000s. Following a few years as a regular freelancer, PC Gamer hired him in 2014, probably so he'd stop emailing them asking for more work. Chris has a love-hate relationship with survival games and an unhealthy fascination with the inner lives of NPCs. He's also a fan of offbeat simulation games, mods, and ignoring storylines in RPGs so he can make up his own.

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