Atomfall is a very British take on Stalker, where you explore a post-disaster Cumberland with a cricket bat

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It’s a sunny day in the Lake District, and I’m bludgeoning a man to death with a cricket bat. Welcome to 1960s Cumberland, where the locals are hostile and the nuclear power station is pouring out ethereal pillars of mysterious energy.

Atomfall is Stalker by way of Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture. It’s an alt-history retelling of the aftermath of the Windscale fire—the largest nuclear accident in the UK’s history. Set five years later, the military has occupied a nearby village, robots patrol the streets, and residents—”proper sober folk”—have wandered off into the woods talking about a new purpose in the soil. And that’s to say nothing of the roving gangs of outlaws that have made their homes in the valley outside of the village—all face paint and rusty rifles. Mad Max, but with flat caps.

(Image credit: Rebellion)

When Windscale—later renamed to Sellafield—actually caught fire in 1957, Harold Macmillan’s Conservative government downplayed the incident, heavily redacting reports for fear of damaging the public’s confidence in nuclear power. For Atomfall, Rebellion is taking that conceit and running with it. What else was the government covering up? Exploring the hills I find a bunker, abandoned except for the feral ghoul-like creature that instantly attacks upon my entry. So there’s a little bit of Fallout here too.

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