The video below offers a brief glimpse at Atomic Heart‘s steampunk-horror style. Over the past 40 years, weve reviewed thousands of computers, tablets, phones, and what-have-yous. Of course, as is often the case with such stories, something has seemingly gone very wrong with these impressive mechanical marvels, which spells trouble for our protagonist, a KGB officer currently locked down in one of the union’s most prolific factories. PCMag is celebrating its 40th anniversary and were taking a look back at the good, the bad, and the weird. The country has amassed an army of robotic servants, holograms, and drones, successfully hitting the zenith of manufacture way ahead of its own timeline. It looks like the four-year wait for answers will end this year, though: a new story trailer ends with confirmation of a 2022 launch, apparently in a month ending in ber. The latest example of such fiction can be found in Atomic Heart – a first-person action RPG currently in development at Russian studio Mundfish.Ītomic Heart is the story of the rise of both Soviet Russia and the technological revolution. Freaky sci-fi shooter Atomic Heart has often been as mysterious as the Soviet research base-cum-house of robot horrors it takes place in. More specific info should be provided in the next 3 months.Alternate timelines are a staple of the RPG genre, offering up worlds and situations that verge just on the precipice of believably. It also sounds like ammunition will be quite scarce and so you will have to rely on other methods such as stealth and melee combat in order to stay alive.Īccording to the game listing on Steam, Atomic Heart is set for release in 2018.
The game is set in an open-world, resembling the length and breadth of the Soviet Union and has a crafting system where you can improve or modify your weapons with scrap that you find in the world. Explore the world of Atomic Heart to learn more about the love story between the two employees of the facility # 3826" The accompanying image seems to hint at some forbidden love between man and machine, which could prove quite interesting. There is even a love story to be uncovered according a blog on the game's website: "Even the toughest times can't stop the two loving hearts from embracing each other. What this really means is that Atomic Heart, while it shares a resemblance to other games, certainly stands out from the crowd as something new and exciting.
The game evokes comparisons to Fallout, Bioshock, S.T.A.L.K.E.R, NieR: Automata and I even got a bit of a Dead Island vibe from the melee combat. While its not clear exactly when the game is set to. This all sounds like a fairly standard premise for a game, but you may not think so after watching the following trailer:ĭeveloper Mundfish promises a "Soviet setting with a pitch of insanity, action-packed gameplay and a thrilling story to keep you entertained for the whole duration of your journey into the world of Atomic Heart." From what we can gather from the trailer this means a wide assortment of strange and deadly rogue robots, a good measure of weird reality altering sci-fi and (literally) bloody zombies. A new trailer for Atomic Heart, the strange action-adventure title set in a hyper-advanced Soviet Russia, has teased the games release window. You will be taking on the role of special agent P-3 who was sent by the Soviet government to a highly secret facility # 3826 after it went silent. Atomic Heart describes itself as an adventure first-person shooter that unfolds in an alternative universe, during hieght of the Soviet Union.