Deep Field Games recently held a multipart Q&A series for their upcoming office survival game, Abiotic Factor, explaining the core gameplay loop, the game world, character skills, and more.

In the game, you are trapped in a research facility and must survive both otherworldly beings while taking care of your character needs with the ultimate goal of trying to find a way to escape.

The massive lab world houses many portals that lead to different dimensions that you can explore, here you will learn more about what is going on in this facility and why there are gates leading to other worlds everywhere.

However, as you explore more worlds, the creatures from those realms will invade our home world more and more. The longer the game goes on, the more difficult enemies become, and they will even try and raid your base.

In order to fend off the alien hordes, you will need to use a weapon to protect yourself. There is a wide variety to choose from. Not only do we get the basic melee and ranged weapons, there are different traps like lasers and auto-turrets, but items like bait bombs to lure enemies away and explode them.

To get the stronger weapons, you will need to level your combat skills. There are many different skills for all sorts of activities like farming or crafting. Leveling up will not only make you better at that specific thing but also unlock new abilities to help you out. At the start of the game, you will be able to pick one of many jobs, each with their own strengths. They also come with points you can spend on positive and negative traits, similar to Project Zomboid.

The world is fully handcrafted, including the placement of resources. This allows the devs to hide pockets of loot for adventurous gamers. However, The items found around the lab are finite, so you will have to farm portal storm enemies (Raids) and grow your own food.

The PC release will come with full controller support, and the developers confirmed they will be looking at a console version after they are done with the Steam release.

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