I love the Fallout games, but as a genuine, original, one-of-a-kind British person, I’ve always explored the United States-based wastelands wondering what’s going down across the Atlantic. I can now get an idea, albeit unofficial, thanks to the Fallout: London mod for Fallout 4, but what about elsewhere in these fine isles? Most of the United Kingdom is countryside, after all.
That’s what Atomfall, the 2025 post-apocalyptic action game from Rebellion Developments, imagines. Well, sort of. Atomfall is set in the Lake District, a jaw-droppingly beautiful region of northern England, and a prime example of how British people from the south of the country are so, so wrong when they utter the oft-repeated cliché “it’s grim up north.”
In 1957, the Windscale fire was the worst nuclear accident the UK has ever seen. Its severity was downplayed by the British government at the time, but in reality, the radioactive materials released into the atmosphere spread across the UK and Europe. Atomfall takes this incident and rewrites history by making the disaster even worse and introducing sci-fi elements. It also moves the Windscale site much closer to the classically picturesque Lake Windermere, rather than its real location near Gosforth.
Atomfall’s scale doesn’t quite compare to the modern Fallout games, nor is it as much of an RPG as it doesn’t feature leveling or experience points, but that doesn’t hold it back. It’s closest to Fallout: New Vegas in that it’s an experience led by player choice, and it doesn’t have expanses of land with little to find. Instead, its open-world zones are densely packed, with interesting characters to find everywhere you look.
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