ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game

I was really hesitating to buy this game at first, but first positive reviews from Fallout series fans changed my mind. And after finishing it for the second time, this time on expert level, I can admit I'm thinking about playing it for the third time. And each gameplay will be unique. You can't master all skills, therefore you can be a sniper, diplomat, thug, martial arts guru or simply extremely trained survivalist or you can mix all basic skills of each developement branch. The atmosphere is perfect. As a person who remember communism from kid's perspective, this is so much like if this era didn't end, but evolved under very extreme circumstances. If you have to run away from 3 drunken peasants armed with broken glass, because the will surely beat you, you feel challenged by the game's reality. Don't count on armor too much because you might get knocked down and surrounded. This game will not show you where to go or what to do, you have to work it out. TLDR: If you miss Fallout 1 & 2 play this russian Fallout 3.

I get that the combat system is inspired in Fallout 1 and 2 but those are games from the 90s...there is no excuse for a game released on 2018 to have such poorly designed encounters. Imagine a turned based game where the first to shoot wins, but you don't get to shoot first. Many of my deaths in this game have been completely unavoidable because the enemy gets to shoot first and they kill me immediately in their first turn. When the combat is this broken a permadeath mode should not even be considered. I'm half way through the story but I'm really starting to consider quitting simply because of how busted the combat is.

Here is a person who has never played those two classic Fallouts. And tell you what? I'm freaking amazed of the depth of this game. I saw so many reviewes comparing it to the Fallouts, but this is the one I experience for the first time and... I have never played anything like this. Diablo 2/Path of Excile - yes, but not this type of a game... A nice and smooth depth of the characters, even the minor ones. It is not boring to read their stories like it is in Diablo, idk, may be I'm a freak, but I barely read anything in Diablo, it was just a nonstop boring grind. - quite a huge starting location. And there are more of them! you just need to find the guides! - wide variety of choice. I mean everywhere - from weapones and tactics to the dialogue lines you choose. - Quite a nice economics: you just cannot grind stuff and sell it, as the traders just do not have so much money! You gather stuff, then you sell it to the first person with cash, even if the price is ridiculously low, as you are OVERWEIGHT lol :) - cool easter eggs and links to films/books. This made me amaze and grin for so many times. There are around 65 hours of gameplay time on my GOG clock, I've got so much more things to do, as the story goes deeper an deeper, and I absolutely do not regret buying this game.

As the title says, it's a pretty decent game for it's price. I do not understand why they put Martial Arts into it though. When I see that as an option for fighting, I usually choose that because it's generally pretty good. Martial Arts is god damned garbage in this game though. I even gave myself the Blackbelt Perk, so that I'd be even better with it, but it makes you useless with guns. And guess what? Every Bandit/Radier/Person in Rags you'll find uses Guns. So have fun getting close. 111 Points into Martial Arts, and it is a complete waste. Any gun will hit harder, has range, and you don't have to be molested by Bears for trying to give them a punch. Seriously, who designs Martial Arts to be useless? (They should just call it brawling or some such, it's not like you do any cool moves or anything, like Martial Arts generally have.)

I'm a big Fallout 1, 2 and Tactics fan and for me ATOP RPG is like a dream came true :)