Abiotic Factor — Steam Gift

Buy Abiotic Factor — Steam gift co-op survival in a secret lab

Abiotic Factor is a survival-crafting game from New Zealand studio Deep Field Games, published by Playstack. It launched into Early Access on May 2, 2024, and reached its full 1.0 release on July 22, 2025, alongside the Cold Fusion update and a console debut with full cross-play. We deliver Abiotic Factor as a Steam gift straight to your account: place the order and the game lands in your library on its own.

What Abiotic Factor is about

You play an ordinary employee of the underground GATE Cascade research facility somewhere in the Australian outback in 1993. An experiment went wrong, reality cracked open, and anomalies now roam the sterile corridors. There's no assault rifle here — just your wits and piles of office and lab junk: staplers, duct tape, pipes, chemicals and water coolers all become weapons, traps and tools. You're not a superhero, just a regular worker in a lab coat with a name badge, and that's exactly what makes Abiotic Factor stand out among survival games: instead of a familiar axe and campfire, you build a crossbow out of printer parts and a shelter out of office partitions.

Atmosphere and grounded survival

The real strength of Abiotic Factor is its atmosphere rather than its action. It's a living 90s tech facility: humming server rooms, anomaly zones, teleporters, weird science and a pinch of dark humor. Survival runs on basic needs — hunger, thirst, fatigue, health — you cook food, find clean water and set up shelter away from whatever howls in the dark down the hall. The setting clearly nods toward Half-Life and Black Mesa, yet Abiotic Factor builds its own crafting and progression systems that are easy to sink many evenings into as you clear out another wing of the facility.

Co-op for 1–6 players

You can play Abiotic Factor solo, but it truly shines as a team: online play supports up to six people. Together you build a base right inside the labs, split roles — who crafts, who scavenges, who fights off creatures — and descend deeper into the facility's dangerous zones. Shared base-building and defending against anomalous raids is exactly what keeps groups of friends coming back. Progress and unlocked zones are shared across the whole team in co-op, so nobody falls behind after a long solo session.

What the 1.0 version includes

You get the complete base game of Abiotic Factor, not an Early Access slice. All the content added during development is already inside, including the major updates that shipped before the final release and Cold Fusion, which closed out the story on July 22, 2025. That's the same release that brought Abiotic Factor to consoles with full cross-play, so the Steam version stays fully current and compatible in progress with other platforms during shared sessions. Free post-launch updates arrive automatically right inside the game — nothing extra to buy.

Why a Steam gift works well for Abiotic Factor

A Steam gift delivers the game directly into your Steam library, with no keys and no manual activation. You pay for the order, and Abiotic Factor arrives just like a gift from a friend — the exact same legitimate copy of the game as a direct Steam store purchase.

How to buy Abiotic Factor — step by step

Open Steam → Friends → Add Friend → invite by link, copy that link, and provide it at checkout along with your account region. Our bot then adds itself to your friends, sends Abiotic Factor as a gift, and automatically leaves your friends list after delivery — no need to accept anything manually, the whole process runs without your involvement except the final "Accept" click in the Steam client. Registering on the site isn't required to place the order — you can pay as a guest and just provide the delivery details.

Region and picking the right variant

A Steam gift is tied to a region, so the catalog offers several variants of Abiotic Factor for different regions — the easiest way to tell yours is by the currency your Steam store prices display in. If the region doesn't match, Steam will refuse the transfer, but the money isn't lost: the amount returns to your site balance, so you can reorder the correct variant right away or spend it on something else in the catalog. The same thing happens if Abiotic Factor is already in your library — Steam doesn't allow duplicates, and that's the most common reason delivery stalls for new buyers.

Staying safe when receiving Abiotic Factor

We only use Steam's own built-in mechanisms: we never ask for your account password, and Steam Guard isn't required to receive the gift. All you need is to allow friend requests in your profile privacy settings, otherwise the bot simply can't send the request and delivery of Abiotic Factor stalls for no obvious reason.

Refund rules for Abiotic Factor

If something goes wrong with receiving Abiotic Factor, a refund only goes through with a single continuous take — recorded without interruption from payment to the attempt at activating the gift, with no editing, cuts or pauses. That's the only proof we accept; every other case counts as fulfilled.

Similar co-op survival picks in our catalog

If co-op survival and scavenger crafting appeals to you, check out Lethal Company — another co-op horror about a small crew in dangerous locations; Subnautica for the same feeling of exploring the unknown, just underwater; and Raft if you enjoy crafting and base-building from literally nothing.

We've been on the market since 2023 and accept payment by Russian bank cards, SBP and crypto, with no extra steps at checkout. If questions about region or the invite link come up, it's easiest to message support before the gift is sent rather than after. Order Abiotic Factor, provide your invite link and region — and 1993-era science will be waiting for you in Steam.