Atomfall the Most Successful Launch in Sniper Elite Developer Rebellion’s 32-Year History

Atomfall looks similar a hit, with 1.5 cardinal players reached and, ahem, 300,000 cups of beverage drank.

Rebellion’s marque caller IP acceptable successful the northbound of England is the company’s astir palmy motorboat successful its 32-year history, it said. Rebellion is the developer down the fashionable Sniper Elite bid of games, arsenic good arsenic the spin-off Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army entries.

Here's the authoritative blurb:

A UK-based post-apocalyptic survival-action game, Atomfall is inspired by the existent beingness Windscale atomic incidental successful the 1950s. Players volition embark connected a fictionalized escapade gathering a formed of weird and fantastic characters arsenic they effort to uncover the enigma and flight the quarantine zone.

“We are delighted that truthful galore players are enjoying Atomfall,” said Jason Kingsley CBE, CEO and co-founder of Rebellion.

“To person surpassed the 1 cardinal players successful specified a abbreviated abstraction of clip speaks volumes for the creativity and dedication of the full squad present astatine Rebellion. Our size and stableness mean that we tin instrumentality risks to make thing arsenic antithetic arsenic Atomfall. Happily, that hazard is paying off.

“We are a British company, and the crippled is simply a existent reflection of that. Not lone is it acceptable successful the lush, beauteous countryside but Atomfall besides draws inspiration from truthful galore classical British books, films and TV series.

“We anticipation that players proceed to bask exploring the satellite of Atomfall and are looking guardant to aboriginal contented for the game.”

While Atomfall launched simultaneously crossed PC, PlayStation 4 and 5, and Xbox Series X and S and Xbox One, it besides released connected Game Pass arsenic a day-one title, which volition person importantly boosted subordinate numbers.

Rebellion did not accidental however galore copies of the crippled were sold, however, preferring, similar Assassin’s Creed Shadows shaper Ubisoft, to spell down the subordinate fig route. But it did supply immoderate amusive stats to backmost up it announcement.

Over 316,000 Atomfall players, for example, person killed the idiosyncratic astatine the precise opening of the game. In full determination person been implicit 3.7 cardinal kills utilizing the cricket bat, portion implicit 4 cardinal pasties and 300,000 cups of beverage person been consumed.

IGN's Atomfall reappraisal returned an 8/10. We said: "Atomfall is simply a compelling, post-apocalyptic endurance communicative that satisfyingly bends to your choices and discoveries nary substance which absorption you take."

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