ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game

This game should be seen as what happens when a small team brings Fallout 2 to modern quality standards and and changes the setting to a more gritty, realistic(ish) post-Soviet setting. And in this, they succeeded very well imo. Sure there are nitpicks and ideas that didn't quite pan out or feel like dead ends. The core of the game is very solid however. The story is decent enough to keep going, the sidequests are interesting. The writing is very fitting for the setting: cynical and often curt, with a typically eastern European sense of humour. The game can be hard, especially early on. But it also rewards a player for being careful and resourceful. Violence can almost always be avoided if you want it. Given the complexity of games such as this and modern standards, I think the devs did a great job with very limited resources. I had fun playing it throughout all of my 80 hour playthrough.

Growing up during the 90's and early 2000's it is really hard for me to still be entertained by new video games. Atom RPG is a classic video in the making by every stretch of the imagination. IMO it is the best game of 2019 (or 2018?). There is just no chance anything is going to come close to how perfectly non-linear, complex, immersive and difficult this game is. Sure it doesn't have voice acting. Sure it doesn't have the most amazing graphics ever. But this was an indy game. Corners had to be cut somewhere. The graphics are good enough where you don't you feel like you're playing a dated game. I'd recommend this game even to people who don't even like the original Fallout. It's that much of an improvement in my opinion. I'd also recommend playing on Expert difficulty the first time you play it because these old style RPGs can be ruined by too liberal a use of savestates.

I love f1 and f2. I grew up with those games and adore them. There are many like me who wish for a fallout successor. And some even try to make one. This is obviously a result of one such attempt but the developer forgot that while people love a lot about first two games, theres as much to dislike about them. First of all, everything is heavily randomized. Do you love reloading same save for 10 times because your apparently military trained character misses someone point blank (and therefore has no excuse for it unlike f1 and f2 backstory) and dies because enemies have higher stats than you? Do you like wandering aimlessly between towns in search of doable quests to get xp and level up your skills because you just cant get to the next point sometimes without some stat? Do you absolutely love slow as hell crawling around global map with random encounters that lead to nothing but savescumming? Everything is slow, takes too much time and quikcly turns your playthrough to chore. The descriptions is misleading as well. Dialogues are all the same with dew exceptions and generic skillchecks. Gameplay is linear and limits your freedom of creating any character you want simply because you cant be not a combat specialised char ("but this is a postapoc rpg you should expect lots of fights" - if you think so, please eat a mushroom). Sure you can choose to be one, but it effectively limits your progression. Im suprised by the amount of 5 stars because the product doesnt deserve so much. My guess is people are just hungry for fallout like games and they praise anything that does a decent attempt at recreating the experience even is some of it shoud have never been recreated. It works, probably as intended, but with many questionable decisions made by devs im sure anyone would be better with playing wasteland 2 or jsut replaying f1/f2.

Game offers interesting setting, story and NPCs with Fallout 1/2 inspired retro design. However combination of unforgiving combat, absence of disengagement mechanics and occasional bad encounter design makes game unplayable without either metagaming or save scamming.

Great game, built like a perfect clone with every right gene and meme whose creator was very talented yet had very limited resources. Just like many Soviet scientists back in day. Like every great Sci-Fi story it's very social(ist), deriving its weirdness and strangeness from actual social processess, Zeitgeist shifts, and technological trends. Nothing innovative gameplaywise (what is these days) - stats, combat, dialogue, skill cheks all work OK, could use some polishing (some skills are need like twice). What got me was the atmosphere and characters. That very special humorous melancholia of the decaying USSR. Compared to Atom Bethesda's Fallout-4-kolhoz-sim is very much sovok.