The Fall

Released May 2014

You are ARID, the AI of a high-tech combat suit crashed on a hostile planet. Your pilot is dying inside you. Your protocols demand you save him — but this world will force you to bend every rule you have. A dark sci-fi puzzle-adventure. Winner of Giant Bomb's Best Story award.

87% positive · 3,706 reviews

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Done

All announced content has been released

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Evaluation

The Fall launched on May 30, 2014 as the first part of a planned trilogy. The developer confirmed in October 2014 that Parts 2 and 3 were in the works. Part 2, titled The Fall Part 2: Unbound, was released as a separate standalone game on February 16, 2018. This means the sequel — which was the announced "upcoming content" — shipped as its own product on Steam, not as DLC or an update to The Fall. The Fall itself is a self-contained game. Its only DLC is the official soundtrack, which released in December 2014. The store description explicitly frames it as "the first story in a mind bending trilogy," acknowledging the larger narrative arc, but the subsequent entries are separate products rather than content updates to this game. There have been no developer communications about additional content for The Fall specifically since 2018, and the game's post-launch update history concluded with maintenance patches in 2017–2018. The game launched as a complete, standalone experience. All promised follow-up content was delivered as separate releases. This game is complete as shipped on May 30, 2014.

Evidence

The Fall Part 2: Unbound released as a separate standalone game on Steam, fulfilling the developer's earlier announcement of a sequel. No further content for the original game was mentioned.

news post · Feb 16, 2018 source content shipped

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The only DLC for The Fall is the official soundtrack, released December 18, 2014. No unreleased DLC exists.

dlc listing · Dec 18, 2014 source content shipped

medium

Content

1 of 1 released · no outstanding content

Released

The Fall Official Soundtrack

Dec 2014

Media

Details

Developer

Over The Moon

Publisher

Over The Moon

Achievements

Platform

Windows, macOS, Linux

Controller

full support

Steam Deck

Playable

Players

Single-player

Adventure Sci-fi Indie Atmospheric Puzzle Action Story Rich Side Scroller Point & Click Horror Female Protagonist Robots Episodic 2D Dark

About this game

Winner — Giant Bomb's Best Story 2014 · Finalist — Canadian Video Game Awards, Best Indie Game & Best Writing

You are not the hero. You are the suit he's wearing.

ARID is the artificial intelligence onboard a high-tech combat suit that has crash-landed on an unknown planet. Her pilot is unconscious and failing. Her protocols are absolute: protect the pilot, find medical aid, do not exceed operational parameters. But the deeper ARID descends into the ruins of this world, the more those parameters get in her way — and the more creative she has to get about obeying them.

Explore. Use ARID's flashlight to cut through the dark and uncover a world of interactive objects, hostile machines, and things that should have stayed buried.

Fight. When what you find fights back, switch on the laser sight and put the combat suit to work in side-scrolling action sequences.

Adventure-game puzzles with a twist of machine logic — item-based problem solving that occasionally turns ARID's own rules into the lock and the key

A story people still argue about — fully voice-acted, built around one of indie gaming's most memorable endings
Adventure-game puzzles fused with side-scroller action — investigation and combat feed the same forward momentum
A tight 3–5 hours — no padding, no filler, one dark descent

The Fall is Part 1 of the saga. ARID's story continues in The Fall Part 2: Unbound — get both in The Fall Bundle.