It's a sunny day in the Lake District, and I'm bludgeoning a man to death with a cricket bat. Welcome to 1960s Cumberland, where the locals are hostile and the nuclear power station is pouring out ethereal pillars of mysterious energy.
Atomfall is Stalker by way of Everybody's Gone to the Rapture. It's an alt-history retelling of the aftermath of the Windscale fire—the largest nuclear accident in the UK's history. Set five years later, the military has occupied a nearby village, robots patrol the streets, and residents—"proper sober folk"—have wandered off into the woods talking about a new purpose in the soil. And that's to say nothing of the roving gangs of outlaws that have made their homes in the valley outside of the village—all face paint and rusty rifles. Mad Max, but with flat caps.
