Hey everyone! The release of Atlas Fallen is imminent, we can't wait to see you glide across the sands of this shattered world! We cooked a special trailer for the occasion for you to discover new gameplay footage and a jaw-dropping vision of your fast-approaching journey in Atlas Fallen! Coming to Steam on August 10, the Standard and Limited editions are available for pre-order.

I don't like sand… I love it, duh!
In a devastated, sand-covered world, seize the divine power of a mysterious Gauntlet and wield heroic abilities to defeat a tyrannic, almighty god. Tame the sands to shape them into a shape-shifting weapon and watch it grow larger as you build Momentum to unleash the full, irrepressible power of the Gauntlet. The 151 Essence Stones that can be found in the world of Atlas grant you a wide range of extra effects and abilities. Whether you prefer to play aggressively or prefer to use shields, debuffs and healing, combine Essence Stones how you like to create your own approach to combat.

Publisher Focus Entertainment and developer Deck13 Interactive were happy to declare, yesterday on Twitter, that development on their upcoming action role-player is complete: "We're happy to announce that Atlas Fallen has gone GOLD! 💛 See you on August 10 in the land of Atlas." The game was originally slated to launch back in mid-May, but the studio was granted extra time to implement further optimizations, polish gameplay, and record "a full German voice-over" dub.

Deck13 Interactive is best known for producing "Soulslike" games—notable titles in their past catalog include Lords of the Fallen (2014), The Surge (2017) and The Surge 2 (2019), but Atlas Fallen presents a departure for the team. The emphasis is on fast and fluid action, with inspiration taken from Sony Entertainment's God of War (2018) and Guerrilla's Horizon series. Atlas Fallen is built using the company's in-house "Fledge" engine—it will be interesting to discover how this proprietary technology performs across PC and console platforms.

Update Jul 25th: This article previously misreported that Atlas Fallen was built on Epic's Unreal Engine 5—Deck13 contacted TPU, and requested that we amend our piece with updated information. Atlas Fallen utilizes the team's own Fledge engine.