Atomfall Trailer Shows a UK-set Rival for Fallout’s Crown

While Fallout might have carved out an incredibly successful, highly specific niche of post-nuclear roleplaying, that doesn’t mean that it’s the only hazmat-suited game in town.

Atomfall is a new 2025 title from Rebellion Developments, with players exploring, scavenging, stealthing, and shooting their way around a unique 1960s English setting.

Rather than aping Fallout‘s speculative apocalypse and its rad-addled aftermath, Atomfall stands apart by imbuing its setting and story with real-world specifics, bringing it closer in kind to the upcoming S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chernobyl.

Taking inspiration from the UK’s Windscale nuclear fire event, Atomfall‘s action-survival gameplay will take place within a sprawling quarantine zone with mystery, conspiracies, and hostile enemy agents around every corner.

Atomfall‘s first gameplay trailer gives prospective players a substantial glimpse at the world and the action on offer.

It also seems as though Atomfall isn’t willing to be penned in by any one genre, with hints of the arcane and mystical at work within its darkest corridors and bunkers.

Taking full advantage of the UK setting, elements of the isles’ folk horror traditions are also in play, with cultists and familiar wicker man-style imagery.

While Atomfall looks to be setting itself apart from Fallout in many key ways, these early glimpses point to a familiar playfulness and willingness to take wild swings in tone.

With a March 2025 release date planned for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S (including a day one Game Pass launch) and PC, as well as previous-gen consoles, Atomfall looks all set to step out of the shadow of other post/mid-apocalyptic shooters and carve out its own space.