gen ATLAS

gen ATLAS is an upcoming single-player, open-world action-adventure game. The player awakens alone on a vast, abandoned world scattered with the colossal remnants of a long-lost civilization, and discovers a giant machine whose power reshapes what is possible.

It is developed by genDESIGN, the studio founded by Fumito Ueda, and published by Epic Games Publishing. It is the studio's first game to launch on several platforms at once.

Overview

Without knowing why, the player character wakes on a silent, abandoned planet covered in colossal structures, deserted facilities, and an ever-changing sea. Across a vast span of time, the forgotten constructs left behind begin to move once more. Exploring this world leads to a colossal robot whose overwhelming power opens paths to places once out of reach.

The game combines human-scale exploration and combat with the spectacle of controlling an enormous machine. See the world, exploration and traversal, and Development for more.

The title reads on more than one level: Ueda links gen to genesis, gene, and generate, and ATLAS both to the world map and to the atlas vertebra that joins head to neck, mirroring the robot head the player carries.

The project was first teased as PROJECT: ROBOT at The Game Awards in December 2024 and revealed under its finished name at Summer Game Fest in June 2026. It has been shown in trailers and key art only, and no release date has been announced.

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