Franchise file / Ken Levine, Irrational Games

BioShock

Utopias built to fall

Ken Levine's 2007 shooter dropped players into Rapture, a ruined undersea city. The line that followed pairs first-person combat with pointed stories about power, ideology and control.

Explore the franchise

2007
First game: 1
Series: Ken Levine, Irrational Games
Creator

In the frameBioShock

One world. Many eras.

Choose your chapter

Rapture. The studio then known as 2K Boston built the original with 2K Australia. 2K Marin led the 2010 sequel, which went back to Rapture to play as a Big Daddy.

Start with BioShock

Your next late night

The essentials

Browse all games

BioShock

2K Australia2008

BioShock Infinite

Irrational Games2013

Chapters

Series (1)

Would you kindly press startBioShockFirst-person shooters set in failed utopias, begun by Irrational Games in 2007. Plasmids, improvised combat and sharp twists run from the depths of Rapture to the skies over Columbia.

A legacy worth revisiting

Every utopia has a body count.

BioShock blends guns and superpowers with environmental storytelling, letting a broken city explain itself through audio diaries and wreckage. Rapture sits under the Atlantic and Columbia floats in the clouds, and neither is the paradise it promised.