Atlas Fallen Reign of Sand Is totally worth playing in 2025
37Atlas Fallen is an action role-playing video game developed by Deck13 Interactive and published by Focus Entertainment. The game was released for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S on 10 August 2023
All-new Challenge area: the Source
Explore the very fabric of God’s limbo and wield new powers in various epic challenges.
During your exploration, you’ll encounter special Rifts across the world. Interacting with these portals allows you to enter the Source as Nyaal. In this seemingly endless desert teeming with shattered giant structures you’ll face new challenges and unearth key elements that help you better understand the past.
The Source features exciting combat centered around the new gameplay mechanic of Wraith Abilities. Within the limbo, you’ll unlock wraith-like powers, allowing you to master the sand like never before.
Transform into a Shellshocker and unleash a devastating tornado that damages enemies and generates momentum.
Morph into a Mawer to perform a forward dash, damaging opponents as you pass through them.
Combine these new abilities with swift sand surfing to overcome this menacing sand limbo. Each challenge provides rewards and uncovers previously untold story fragments related to the War of Gods.
New monsters join the cast!
New threats emerge in the world of Atlas Fallen! With Reign of Sand, we aim to offer you a refined combat experience and unique challenges to overcome. A diverse range of enemies is crucial to convey a satisfying sense of progression and ensure a consistently fresh gameplay experience. So, let’s introduce some of our new Wraith Challengers!
It begins by unleashing powerful but slow attacks. Sounds easy to dodge, right? However, there’s a catch: each destroyed body part triggers an evolution in its combat pattern, granting new abilities that are significantly faster. This dynamic creates an evolving fight, forcing you to react strategically.
Weaver
Meet the Weaver - a small yet nasty parasitic Wraith. It performs a binding ritual to enhance its host’s power and spread the new Affliction status (available in NG+ only). Once the ritual is complete, it moves on to another host, starting the process anew. Despite its agility, the Weaver won’t attack unless provoked.
New Essence Stones
With Atlas Fallen, we’ve introduced a new way to play according to your preferences, featuring cool and unique abilities called Essence Stones. As you progress through the game, you’ll unlock, find, or craft these powerful stones, each granting you impactful gameplay modifiers or super-powered abilities.
Reign of Sand update introduces 25 new Essence Stones to further expand your combat arsenal. Let me showcase four of them :
Let’s start with Momentum Phoenix: A new Stone that summons a Tailwhipper. This creature flies toward your target, creating burning areas on the floor, damaging enemies, and generating momentum. It’s perfect for dealing with groups of wraiths, thanks to its impressive area-of-effect capability.
Healing Alliance is another new Stone that proves incredibly useful for both solo play and cooperative mode. It summons a friendly Mender, which follows and massively heals nearby damaged players for 15 seconds. Additionally, the Mender can sacrifice itself once to prevent your or your ally’s death. You’ll quickly grow fond of this little companion!
Some newly added Essence Stones are corrupted, making you more vulnerable to damage. However, they provide strong counterparts. Afflicted Overcharge is a simple yet super-effective ability. It conjures massive shockwaves around you, crystallizing all hit foes for an extended duration, immobilizing them while reducing their defense.
Unleash your inner wrath with Bestial Claws. This new Stone summons Marauder claws, allowing you to shred enemies with powerful slash attacks. You can even chain these attacks twice to perform combo maneuvers with increased damage.