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Abiotic Factor restored my faith in survival games

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GOTY 2024 Personal Picks

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In addition to our main Game of the Year Awards 2024, each member of the PC Gamer team is shining a spotlight on a game they loved this year. We’ll post new personal picks, alongside our main awards, throughout the rest of the month.

Before I played Abiotic Factor I thought I was completely over survival games. Turns out I was just tired of punching the same trees, crafting the same pickaxes, and digging the same holes I’ve been digging since Minecraft was new. Abiotic delivers the survival must-haves like crafting, hunger, sleeping, and fighting in a setting this genre has never seen—bands of scientist dorks trapped in an underground facility after a Black Mesa-like disaster. It’s co-op survival with a splash of immersive sim and sci-fi intrigue, and it’s very good.

Abiotic Factor is wonderfully weird. It’s approximately day 85 of the Gate Cascade Research Facility disaster. That has translated to 35 real hours of a playthrough we’ve chipped away at since May. We’re still in the process of moving our base from the chemical wing to our new home in R&D, and our party of five is unrecognizable from where we started.


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