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2023 · Deck13 Interactive · Action role-playing · Adventure

Atlas Fallen

Rise from the dust and glide the sands of a timeless land, filled with ancient dangers, mysteries and fragments of the past. Hunt legendary monsters with powerful sand-infused weapons and abilities in spectacular, super-powered combat.

Released: 10 August 2023
Platforms: PlayStation 5 Windows Xbox Series X/S
Genres: Action role-playing Adventure Role-playing
Developers: Deck13 Interactive
Publishers: Focus Entertainment
Modes: Co-op Multiplayer Single-player
Perspective: Third person
Themes: Action Fantasy Mystery
Country: Germany
Age ratings: ESRB T GRAC 15+CLASS_IND 12 PEGI 12 USK 12 ACB M
Languages: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian and 2 more
Time to beat: 11hmain story29hcompletionist

About

Atlas Fallen is an action role-playing video game developed by Deck13 Interactive and published by Focus Entertainment. The game was released for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S on 10 August 2023. It received mixed reviews from critics.

›Story

Atlas Fallen is an action role-playing game set in a sweeping, sun-scorched fantasy world of endless deserts and buried ruins. Players create and customize their own hero, an ordinary figure who comes into possession of a mysterious ancient gauntlet imbued with extraordinary power. This relic grants command over sand itself, allowing its wielder to conjure shifting weapons from the dunes, glide across the wastes, and raise long-buried structures from beneath the earth to uncover hidden paths and forgotten secrets. Armed with this gift, the hero sets out across a vast open landscape, battling monstrous creatures that roam the sands and growing steadily more powerful as they master the gauntlet's abilities.

By collecting shards and fragments scattered through the world, the wielder unlocks ever greater feats of combat and traversal. What begins as the discovery of a wondrous artifact becomes a journey through a desolate realm, one shaped by the player's own choices and the growing might of the sand.

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Gameplay

Atlas Fallen is a third-person action role-playing video game. At the beginning of the game, players can create and customize their own player avatar. The player character is equipped with an ancient gauntlet that allows them to manipulate sand, to turn it into weapons. Players can use three different weapons, though they can only carry two at any given time.

Atlas Fallen is an action-oriented game; players are required to dodge, counter and block incoming attacks, as well as quickly switching between land and air combat. As players attack enemies, they will gain momentum. At certain momentum threshold, the weapon the player is wielding will transform, and they can unleash a special skill or ability that deals devastating damage to their opponents.

Development

Atlas Fallen is being developed by Deck13 Interactive using their in-house engine Fledge. According to design director Jérémy Hartvick, the game is not a "Soulslike" like the studio's previous games, Lords of the Fallen and The Surge. Instead, its combat system emphasizes speed and fluidity, and that the game's overall design was inspired by games such as God of War (2018) and the Horizon series. Nonetheless, staples from The Surge games such as a body targeting system were incorporated into Atlas Fallen. The game offers three difficulty modes, with the hard mode designed for veteran players of Soulslike games.

Atlas Fallen was announced by Deck13 and publisher Focus Entertainment at Gamescom in August 2022. While initially set to be released in May, the game was delayed to August 10, 2023, for Windows, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and Series S to allow additional development time for the team to further polish the game and include a full German voice-over at launch. Players who preorder the game will gain access to "Ruin Rising Pack", which introduces various cosmetic items and essence stones into the game.

Reception

Atlas Fallen received "mixed or average" reviews from critics, according to review aggregator website Metacritic. In Japan, four critics from Famitsu gave the game a total score of 29 out of 40.