atomica
Parkour through a living cell. Climb 3 km through a real Mycoplasma genitalium, built molecule by molecule from Scripps Research's cellPACK model. Open proteins into atoms, dock ligands, run real molecular dynamics, and race to the top. Free.
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About
Every molecule in Atomica is a real one. This is Scripps Research's cellPACK model of Mycoplasma genitalium, one of the smallest living things: about 120,000 proteins, ribosomes and strands of DNA and RNA, each where the model places it, inside a membrane of 660,000 lipids. You are the size of a couple of atoms. The cell is a three-kilometre climb.
Climb. Run across proteins, double-jump between them, grab a wall and climb it. Ligands launch you upward. The global leaderboard keeps the fastest time out of the cell.
Look closer. Point at anything to learn what it is and what it does. Open a protein into its atoms; its binding sites glow gold.
Do chemistry. Collect ligands, dock them into binding sites, and when a substrate fits its enzyme, the reaction happens. Run glycolysis, nine enzymes long, and make ATP.
Simulate. Watch phosphoglycerate kinase's atoms move under a real force field, computed live by OpenMM.
Listen. What you hear is the cell's real activity turned into sound: Brownian motion, ribosomes adding amino acids, ATP synthase's rotor turning a hundred times a second.
Quests, cards and riddles, eight Steam achievements, a visitor waiting above the cell, and VR Explore: fly through the cell in a PC VR headset (the climb, docking and the info panel are flat-screen only).
Fourteen languages. Free, and it will stay free.
Climb. Run across proteins, double-jump between them, grab a wall and climb it. Ligands launch you upward. The global leaderboard keeps the fastest time out of the cell.
Look closer. Point at anything to learn what it is and what it does. Open a protein into its atoms; its binding sites glow gold.
Do chemistry. Collect ligands, dock them into binding sites, and when a substrate fits its enzyme, the reaction happens. Run glycolysis, nine enzymes long, and make ATP.
Simulate. Watch phosphoglycerate kinase's atoms move under a real force field, computed live by OpenMM.
Listen. What you hear is the cell's real activity turned into sound: Brownian motion, ribosomes adding amino acids, ATP synthase's rotor turning a hundred times a second.
Quests, cards and riddles, eight Steam achievements, a visitor waiting above the cell, and VR Explore: fly through the cell in a PC VR headset (the climb, docking and the info panel are flat-screen only).
Fourteen languages. Free, and it will stay free.
Facts
- Released
- Oct 7, 2025
- In catalog since
- Oct 18, 2026
- Publisher
- Steven R Ness
- Developer
- Steven R Ness
- Platforms
- PC
- Genres
- Adventure, Casual, Indie, Free To Play
- Features
- Single-player, Steam Achievements, VR Supported, Playable without Timed Input, Stereo Sound, Partial Controller Support, Steam Leaderboards, Family Sharing
- Languages
- English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish
- Links
- Website
System requirements
Minimum
Minimum:- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core i5-8400 / AMD Ryzen 5 2600 or better
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB / AMD Radeon RX 580 8 GB (DirectX 12, Shader Model 6)
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 10 GB available space
- VR Support: PC VR over OpenXR, tested on Meta Quest 2 with Quest Link. VR Explore mode: flight and looking only; the climb, docking and the info panel are flat-screen. Tracked motion controllers or a gamepad. In VR, set the Windows audio output to the headset (Headphones, Oculus Virtual Audio Device) to hear the game there.
- Additional Notes: Low to Medium settings at 1080p. Steam must be running for the leaderboard.
Recommended
Recommended:- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 11 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core i5-9400 / AMD Ryzen 5 3600 or better
- Memory: 32 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 8 GB / AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT or better
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 10 GB available space
- VR Support: PC VR over OpenXR, tested on Meta Quest 2 with Quest Link. VR Explore mode: flight and looking only; the climb, docking and the info panel are flat-screen. Tracked motion controllers or a gamepad. In VR, set the Windows audio output to the headset (Headphones, Oculus Virtual Audio Device) to hear the game there.
- Additional Notes: High settings at 1080p at 60 fps or more; Epic at about 55 fps.