ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game

I've only played an hour or so, and I'm moving on to look for something better. The impression is that the game is 60-80% finished. It's rough and glitchy. The details haven't been tightened and the flow is still uneven. It's missing the cohesive, polished feel that you add with testing and care in the last months of development. For example, there's no quest log, waypoints, or clear flow to the tutorial. It doesn't teach important control concepts, and it's easy to get wierd results (my companion pulled out a gun and started shooting me in the melee practice area). The UI is and game design are tedius. Windows cover a small part of the screen, but they lock out the rest of the UI and clicking on other parts of the UI is just ignored, forcing you to click the small close button where a well polished game would either let you use the other elements or at least close the top dialog to get out of your way. They pepper rooms and areas with a half dozen or more small clickable objects. You have to individually open each, deal with one or two items, then find the small close button, etc. It's not bad, just needs refinement. Another example: It's difficult to see what's going on and find your way around. You wind up doing a grid search because there's no guidance to the important points. One of the first quests involves picking mushrooms near the fence. There are mushrooms near the fence, but they're the wrong mushrooms. You have to randomly walk around until you stumble across the right mushrooms, literally covering the entire zone in a search pattern, to find every available mushroom, or you fail the quest. It's the only way. The system and story look promising, and if you can get past the lack of refinement, it might be a good game, but I'll write off my $11 and try something else.

Good graphics, nice setting in Soviet background. I enjoyed playing for a bit but it's one of those games which just chews up time. Running around doing menial tasks to get ahead. Lots of crafting - if you like that sort of thing. Personally, I can't stnad crafting in games hence the 2 stars. Also, the screen is very zoomed in and there is no AI help on the map to point you to where to go. I left the game for a while and thought to come back after a long break. Nothing makes sense and I just don't have the time to read a whole bunch of text and try to navigate where to go - I'd rather go work in my own garden and craft something in my own shed. Probably worth a 3 star rating if you have the time and enjoy crafting.

This game is fun(?) to play and very funny. I probably should mention I really dislike the combat though. It pretty much punishes you for not packing SMG's, automatic rifles and several bombs. I really would like to know what type of build end game enemies are using! I certainly can't take as much punishment as they do and I'm supposed to be a big lad in the game. Memorize the quick save button in advance... If you're like me you'll probably piss the wrong guy off early on and get gunned down when you're holding a rusty ass rifle you got from an old corn farmer. This will piss you off big time but I ask you to try again. I feel like not playing through this game is a bad idea, you won't learn anything new from it or anything but it's one of the most fun I've had in a long time. My advice? Leave the min-maxing and 100% completion out of your view for your first try. (Should probably keep your DEX above 6 though *cough cough*). Maybe put your luck to 10 for maximum meme power or something. Could it be better? Yes, certainly. Still it's good for what it is. Just wish they made it more RPG and less "Please don't one-shot me generic enemy-nevermind, I'll just load my game again..."

This game was obviously made by people who enjoyed Fallout 1 and 2, but for whatever reason I didn't really enjoy it. I'm not even sure what was missing - maybe I was expecting the quests to feel more epic, or maybe the characters just don't come alive for me.

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