Atomfall reached over 1 million players in its first weekend

Rebellion, one of the leading independent video game developers and publishers, released Atomfall for everyone on March 27, 2025, across PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox Game Pass, and PC via Steam. Today, they announced Atomfall has surpassed 1 million players during its first weekend of release.

On top of that, the game has been played by over 1.5 million players since it was released with Early Access on March 24. Atomfall is a United Kingdom-based post-apocalyptic survival action game that is inspired by the real-life Windscale nuclear incident in the 1950s.

“We are delighted that so many players are enjoying Atomfall,” said Jason Kingsley CBE, CEO and co-founder of Rebellion. “To have surpassed the 1 million players in such a short space of time speaks volumes for the creativity and dedication of the entire team here at Rebellion. Our size and stability mean that we can take risks to create something as different as Atomfall. Happily, that risk is paying off.

In our review of Atomfall, we scored it an 8.5 out of 1,0 stating that it is a must-play for anyone looking for a new survival action game to play.

Rebellion also revealed that players in Atomfall have killed the scientist at the start of the game over 316,000 times and have over 3.7 million kills using the cricket bat, whole over 300,000 cups of tea have been consumed.

Total sales numbers for Atomfall have not been revealed, but its large player base has no doubt been helped by the release on Xbox Game Pass.