Atomfall developer Rise up has stated that its hit British survival sport grew to become “instantly worthwhile” upon launch, although a piece of its 2 million gamers got here from Xbox Game Move — and subsequently didn’t purchase the title outright for themselves.
Rise up has not revealed gross sales figures for Atomfall, which launched for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Sequence X/S again on March 27, 2025.
As an alternative, the developer has merely mentioned the truth that Atomfall has been its greatest ever launch when it comes to participant numbers — one thing that may have been aided by Game Move subscribers merely checking the title out by way of Xbox and PC.
Nonetheless, Atomfall has clearly not suffered because of this. Chatting with The Game Business, Rise up stated the post-apocalyptic northern England simulator had instantly made again its growth prices.
And now, Rise up says, the studio is at present discussing plans for potential sequels or spin-offs, whereas persevering with work on Atomfall’s ongoing post-launch help and DLC.
In a earlier interview with IGN sister web site GamesIndustry.biz, Rise up boss Jason Kingsley stated that Atomfall’s launch as a part of Game Move had efficiently prevented the chance of “cannabilising” gross sales.
“What you acquire from that value is disproportionate,” Kingsley stated, noting that nonetheless a sport sells, Microsoft does assure a “sure degree of revenue” to mitigate threat.
Moreover, launching by way of Game Move ensures the title is marketed and made obtainable to a large viewers — aiding its potential for constructive phrase of mouth to spice up gross sales additional.
“With Game Move, you may get folks to attempt it, then because of these folks attempting it, they prefer it, they usually then inform their mates on social media, ‘I discovered this sport on Game Move, I actually loved it, you must have a go,'” Kingsley continued.
“After which a few of them are on Game Move, and can [play] it. However a few of them aren’t on Game Move, and also will wish to be a part of that dialog. So, they will go and purchase it.”
Microsoft retains particulars of its enterprise agreements with builders confidential, so we will however guess at how a lot cash Atomfall has made for each Rise up and Microsoft itself — the latter of whom clearly advantages when video games appeal to gamers to its subscription providing.
The most recent Xbox Game Move subscriber depend launched publicly by Microsoft is now considerably outdated, however it positioned the service on 34 million customers as of February 2024.
“Atomfall is a gripping survival-action journey that takes a few of the greatest parts of Fallout and Elden Ring, and synthesises them into its personal recent mutation,” IGN wrote in our Atomfall overview.
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