A Fallout 76 Player Tries Atomfall for the First Time

I finally picked up Atomfall in the 2026 Steam Summer Sale, a year late, but the price sealed the deal. As a long-time Fallout 76 player (and someone with an actual Geiger counter on the desk), a survival game built around the real 1957 Windscale fire was always going to end up on this channel. This is my genuine first session: no guides, no prior knowledge. Remapping everything for a left-handed player, picking a difficulty, waking up in a bunker, and slowly working out what the Interchange is, plus a few honest words about how it runs on an RTX 3080 with 10 GB of VRAM. If you enjoy slow, thorough exploration over speedrunning the story, this one's for you. Chapters: 0:00 Why Atomfall? (Steam sale impulse buy) 1:00 Left-handed keybind wrangling 2:34 Picking a difficulty ("I'm not a survivor") 3:09 The Windscale intro – and the real 1957 history 4:26 Waking up in the bunker 6:37 First crafting: bandages 10:56 The scientist's notes 13:12 How it runs on an RTX 3080 (VRAM check) 15:27 My loot philosophy (yes, the glass bottles) 20:14 First fight & learning takedowns 24:34 Arriving in Slatten Dale 25:20 "Oberon must die" 28:46 Sidebar: measuring radiation on a flight (RadiaCode) 41:39 Finding the metal detector 43:31 The Interchange escape route lead 47:29 Outlaw camp standoff (tactical retreat) 55:00 An unexplored bunker & the stash system 58:37 First skill unlock 1:03:11 Into the slate mine caves 1:09:07 The cave hermit & trading 1:17:28 Outlaw's Cave 1:19:01 The big fight (almost out of ammo) 1:33:11 My verdict so far