

This time featuring a nightmarish mini-boss called Plyush, who now features heavily in the game’s marketing.
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In February and July 2020, those excited by the initial gameplay teases were treated to another 7-minute gameplay. While Alexey plays an in-development build of the game, it’s clear that there’s a full product there ready and waiting, it’s just being polished and built out before being ready for launch. Alexey Makarenkov visited the game’s development office, and ‘spent four hours in the game, then a little more on the puzzle level, appreciated the atomic heart shooter mechanics, close combat’ and ‘learned a lot about the world’. Next up is perhaps the most concrete of content previews, and that’s in the format of a playthrough review by 4Game.

If you want to go through every piece of video content released (sort of) chronologically, you’ll want to start with the wild and weird 10-minute gameplay release that showcases the bizarre Atomic world and your characters melee and combat abilities, and also the fantastic character building – who doesn’t love Russian swear words.

If you really want to get the feeling for P-3’s journey through the hectic and beautiful portrayal of an alternate universe 1930’s Soviet Union, you’ll want to binge-watch all of the gameplay videos and promo trailers. Developers repeatedly say that they want to keep some aspects a ‘secret’ before release, but there are hints of a greater plot going on, which will explain why the mass use of Soviet-built robotics has suddenly gone wrong, and it’s your job to uncover it. Judging from the descriptions released by Mundfish, you’ll be able to explore an open-world style map of various Soviet facilities and underground labs that need clearing of machines that were created to serve the Soviet industry but have somehow defaulted to their wartime ‘combat’ functions.įurther storylines are unclear at the moment, aside from a love story between two Facility employees that will in some way be important to the main story. You’re called P-3, and the government tasks you with clearing out Facility 3826, which has suffered a major computer system malfunction and become overrun with hostile robots and creatures. Set in a shooter-based RPG mechanics, your character is a reportedly ‘crazy’ Soviet Special Duty KGB officer. Mundfish CEO Bagratuni describes it as ‘part shooter, part hardcore close combat game’. Atomic Heart Scenery What is Atomic Heart?Īccording to the official website, Atomic Heart is ‘about all the things that could have happened in the USSR’s reality but didn’t. There’s a lot we don’t know about Atomic Heart, but there’s also plenty to speculate on, and if you’re an intense RPG fan or wish Bioshock had a Russian sequel, you might need to add Atomic Heart to your wishlist. Still, it’s the trailers and gameplay video releases that have really gained the, as of yet unreleased, game so much online attention. A lot of publicity for the game is done in-character, most often written as an in-game computer system called Krahz. In May 2018 a trailer for a game called Atomic Heart dropped online from Russian developers, Mundfish, and gamers worldwide went wild for it.Ī lot of mystery surrounds the development, and upcoming release, of Atomic Heart, an action RPG set in USSR Russia.
