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Abiotic Factor now supports official mods via mod.io. How installs, saves and servers work, plus the Steam Key from €15.47 (€17.00 with fees) vs €33.99.
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- Cheapest right now
- € Standard · Steam Account · Global · Difmark
- Live offers
- 47 offers · 23 stores
- Our pick
- Standard · Steam Key · Global · Gamivo — €
Deep Field released Community Update #5 for Abiotic Factor on Steam on 26 October. Version 1.5.0, called "The Modding Update", adds official mod support, and it's free if you already own the game. Hotfixes followed on 27 and 30 October and on 3 November.
If you haven't played it, it's a co-op survival crafting game for one to six players, set in an underground research facility where containment has failed in every direction. Steam users rate it Overwhelmingly Positive: 95% of 43,099 reviews.
From the title screen to your world
There's a new MODS button on the title screen. It opens a browser hooked up to the Abiotic Factor section on mod.io, where you can search, filter by tags, rate mods and subscribe to them. Subscribing installs the mod straight away, no restart needed.
Gameplay mods are switched on per world. Go to your saved worlds, press the MODS button there, tick what you want and save. It works on new and existing worlds. Turning a mod off also removes what it added, so items or things you built with it can vanish.
Co-op servers and cosmetic mods
When you join a server, a window lists the mods it runs. Press continue, they download and install automatically, and you're dropped into your friend's world.
Cosmetic mods live separately, in the customization screen, and are marked Local Only. They change how you look in every save, but other players see you in the default outfit unless they have the same mod installed.
Old mods and existing saves
Unofficial mods still load, but they don't appear in the in-game tools and Deep Field expects nearly all of them to break. If you get a Fatal Error crash, the studio's advice is to uninstall them. Official mods carry a version number, so an outdated one stays disabled until its author updates it.
The 30 October hotfix dealt with the nastiest bug: adding mods to a save that hadn't yet been upgraded to the new version corrupted it. Many of those saves load again since the patch.
Want to make mods yourself? The Abiotic Factor Mod Editor is a separate app on the Epic Games Launcher. The update also has something for people who never touch mods: a new pet, IS-0178-I, the Fog Peccary, which a peccary can mutate into if you feed it certain substances, new quests, and tracking for several quests at once on the GATEPal.
Getting in for less than Steam's €33.99
Steam sells the game for €33.99 (no fees) and the Supporter's Edition for €39.69. We're tracking 47 live offers for the PC version. The cheapest Steam Key is at Gamivo, €15.47 (€17.00 with fees) with the code GCDKGamivo, about €17 less than Steam. It has been cheaper: the lowest key price in our history is €14.25 before fees, at HRKGame on 19 September.
Below that you'll see Steam Accounts from €6.19 (€6.47 with fees) at Difmark with the code Gocdkeys. That's a login to someone else's account, and the game is never yours. We'd stick with the key.
The Temple of Stone DLC is €7.79 on Steam. Every store is on the Abiotic Factor Steam Key page, and a price alert will email you if the key drops again.
Prices checked on the morning of 15 November.
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