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300 years after the Sonic War, the surface is dead.

Cities lie in ruins, reclaimed by nature. The air can turn toxic without warning. Humanity survives underground in scattered Airlocks.

Above them walk the descendants of those changed by the wavefront that ended the world.

The Altered.

They are not your enemy.

They are what you could become.

You wake in a strange room with no memory of who you are. On the wall, someone has left you a message:

SAVE THEM ALL, KORE.

Build underground. Survive above.

AIRLOCK combines a side-view settlement builder with a third-person survival game in one continuous world.

Plan your sanctuary in the Ant Farm. Place rooms cell by cell, route essential infrastructure and watch your Settlers live and work inside the corridors you designed.

Then step inside it.

Switch to third person at any Airlock Computer, walk through the base you built, venture onto the surface and explore the ruined city of Ashgate.

Plan. Live. Survive. Come home.

Build a home worth defending

Every survivor matters.

Distress calls echo across Ashgate through salvaged radios, emergency beacons and desperate signals from the surface.

Find them before something else does.

Bring survivors home and assign them a place in your growing community. Engineers, cooks, gunsmiths, hunters, medics and others bring their own skills, stories and capabilities.

Settlers work in the rooms you build. They eat the food you grow. They sleep in the beds you provide.

Their survival becomes your responsibility.

Survive Ashgate

Nature has swallowed the city, but it hasn't made it safe.

Scavenge abandoned buildings for food, fuel, ammunition and the resources needed to keep your Airlock alive.

Hunt. Craft. Explore. Fight.

Noise attracts feral Altered. Stalkers watch from a distance, waiting for an opportunity. Husks, Hollows, Ragers and Wretches each demand a different response.

And somewhere beyond them is Legion.

Intelligent. Organised. Centuries old.

They know more about Kore than Kore remembers about herself.

A story buried in the ruins

AIRLOCK is a survival story about the people you bring home and the world that was left behind.

Choices have consequences. Survivors can be lost. Small details scattered throughout Ashgate tell stories of their own — a UGA coin buried in the dust, a faded sign, a dead loyalist who spent their final moments scratching your name into a wall.

Some things won't make sense the first time you see them.

They're not supposed to.

Key Features

• Dual-view base building — design your underground settlement from the Ant Farm, then explore it in third person.

• Rescue and recruit Settlers — survivors bring skills, stories and new possibilities to your Airlock.

• Living settlement simulation — manage power, water, food, morale, stress and daily schedules.

• Broadcast Rescue system — discover distress signals across Ashgate and decide who you risk saving.

• Explore a ruined city — scavenge, hunt and survive in a nature-reclaimed post-apocalyptic world.

• The Altered — face distinct enemy classes ranging from feral packs to the mysterious Legion.

• Deep character progression — more than 100 sub-skills across 17 parent categories.

• Consequences that matter — Settlers can die permanently, while different difficulty options support both survival and narrative-focused players.

• Full controller support, accessibility options and AIRLOCK's hand-painted interface.

For fans of

The Last of Us • The Alters • State of Decay 2 • This War of Mine • Project Zomboid • Fallout Shelter

AIRLOCK is coming to PC.

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From Ironbridge Games, an independent UK studio led by developers with experience across Ubisoft, Gunzilla Games, Rebellion and nDreams.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

AIRLOCK contains frequent combat against mutated humanoid enemies and other hostile characters, including the use of firearms and melee weapons. Combat may feature blood, injury and death. The game contains corpses and disturbing imagery within a dark post-apocalyptic setting, alongside horror themes and occasional strong language.