
- 78/100
- Players53 ratings
- 78/100
- Critics2 reviews
More scores
- Metacriticcritics
- 76/100
- Metacritic usersuser score
- 72/100
- GameFAQsJust Right
- 3.86/5
- Player reviews
- 87% positive2,791 reviews
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Runs on
- Windows, Mac, Linux
- Price
- US$9.99
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2014 · Over The Moon · Action-adventure · Adventure
Fall Part 2: Unbound
Timed Nintendo exclusive
The Fall is a side-scrolling adventure game with platforming and combat elements. Your character is an AI controlling a combat suit whose occupant is unresponsive and presumably dead or seriously injured. You have crash landed on an unknown planet for unknown reasons and must seek medical attention for your 'pilot'.
- Released
- 30 May 2014
- Platforms
- LinuxNintendo SwitchPlayStation 4Wii UWindowsXbox OnemacOS
- Genres
- Action-adventureAdventureIndiePlatformerPoint-and-click adventurePuzzleScienceShooter
- Developers
- Over The Moon
- Publishers
- Over The Moon
- Series
- The Fall
- Modes
- Single-player
- Perspective
- Side view
- Themes
- ActionScience fiction
- Age ratings
- ACB PGCLASS_IND 12PEGI 12ESRB T
- Languages
- English, French, German, Italian, Spanish (Spain)
- Time to beat
- 3.5hmain story5hcompletionist
About
The Fall is a 2014 action-adventure and side-scrolling platform game by Canadian independent developer Over the Moon. The game was released in May 2014 for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux through Steam, GOG, and the Humble Store; released for Wii U through the Nintendo eShop in August 2014; and released for PlayStation 4 through the PlayStation Store and for Xbox One through Xbox Live in July 2015. An improved port of the game was released for the Nintendo Switch via Nintendo eShop in May 2018.
The story centers on Arid, an artificial intelligence installed in a technologically advanced combat space suit, as she navigates a decaying industrial facility in search of medical attention for the suit's injured pilot with traditional adventure game elements requiring found items and unlocked skills to progress the story, along with 2D cover-based shooting. A sequel, The Fall Part 2: Unbound, was released in February 2018, with a third game being cancelled.
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Story
After crashing from space into the surface of an unknown planet, a Mark-7 Combat Suit powered exoskeleton activates its Autonomous Robotic Interface Device (A.R.I.D.) artificial intelligence when no response can be detected from the pilot Col. Josephs. With no logs detailing previous mission parameters and the suit's health monitoring system malfunctioning, the A.R.I.D. is given control over the suit's motor functions with the primary directive to seek medical attention for the presumably critically injured and unconscious pilot.
Navigating the decaying lower levels of the industrial facility she finds herself in, the A.R.I.D. is captured and subjected to an evaluation by an android identifying as the Caretaker. She is unable to prove her primary function to the Caretaker because the pilot is non-responsive, so the Caretaker declares her to be faulty and attempts to wipe her using an electromagnetic field so the suit can be "de-purposed". Since her and the suit's destruction would place the pilot's life at risk, the A.R.I.D. is given control over the Mark-7 suit's networking functions which she uses to incapacitate the Caretaker and escape.
Development
The Fall was largely the work of John Warner, founder of Over the Moon Games. Warner described working alone as "incredibly gratifying. It's what I would do if I had infinite resources, if I was a billionaire." The game is inspired by Metroid and the Monkey Island games, Limbo serves as its visual inspiration.
The game was partly crowdfunded through Kickstarter, raising C$38,155 in October 2013. A sequel, The Fall Part 2: Unbound, was released on February 13, 2018, for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch.
Reception
The Fall has received generally positive reviews, with scores of 72, 76 and 79 across multiple platforms at reviews aggregation website Metacritic. Giant Bomb declared the game as having the "Best Story" in its 2014 Game of the Year editorial, writing that the game "manages to weave a tightly told tale into gameplay and visuals that support and propel you through a science fiction adventure".
Releases by platformdates and regions as published
Editions and related releases
- Included in
- The Fall Bundle
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