Rebellion's Atomfall is a bit eccentric, a little odd, but very, very interesting. The game is being developed by Oxford-based Rebellion, which made the excellent Sniper Elite: Resistance, and it mines a similar vein of quintessentially British and generally nostalgic word-building.
This first-person action-adventure game mixes in survival elements, a tinge of horror and an open-world feel for exploration, but it's the unique and period-perfect setting of an alternate 1957 that captures the imagination. Based on the real life fire at the Windscale nuclear reactor in Cumbria, Rebellion uses this as a jumping off point for an alt-history wheeze that suggests this was actually merely the visible result of sinister government experimentation.
