ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game

I haven't played Fallout so I can't say how it compares, but after playing at least 10 hours (I think) this one is just a frustrating experience. It started getting stability issues, first randomly crashing on occasion then I got to one scene (just talking with a few people) where three consecutive tries chrashed. This is with a R9 390 on max settings; changing to minimum graphics setting worked for at least another hour or two and I'm guessing I could find better settings that work if I stuck with it. However, I then reached a spot where I need to throw a rope but my throwing skill is too low. My companion is much better, but there seems to be no way to have my companion try. I also discovered around that time that there is one branch of the skill tree that gives quite an advantage if you do it first, giving you extra skill points and experience. I have been save scumming quite a bit to get this far, improving some along the way so not entirely bad (a better tutorial would be helpful), although some issues seem hard to know in advance. The setting is interesting and I can see what they are trying to do, but IMO it just doesn't work. The story is not that good, although not really worse so far than most other games of this style that I've played; they all are not that good IMO. Partly it is just difficult to make an open world game with a decent story. Partly, it seems like everyone who writes for this type of game has an antisocial way of wording everything. It is the same in all the Beamdog games I've played as well. Here the mechaincs are also just not fun IMO. It seems like the developers are still working on it and hopefully they will improve it some eventually, but I doubt all that much will change at this point. I would add that they seem to be active on the forum here and anyone willing to work with them to improve the game may be able to get some issues fixed, but IMO there is too much that needs to change.

The game lifts it's mechanics straight from Fallout 1\2, which given modern gameplay design these days... Isn't fantastic. Replay fallout 1 or 2 and see if you can tolerate it before getting this game. One said mechanic is the magic sight all the NPCS have. Kill someone in a isolated area of the map, everyone and everything goes hostile and comes to hunt you down. Makes sense in a city street. But when after spending time breaking into a secured bunker and killing its occupants, the entire city above it should not know what I did and try to hunt me down. I also found as you progress in the game, the enemies become more bullet spongey, which in turn made fights even more tedious than they should be. Admittedly that may have been my gear more than anything.

This is a game it's taken right out of the fallout universe top down experience I'm very ambitious game which they actually do pretty well everything from the character development which is very accurate and you can pretty much create exactly what you want to the ambitious and fully successful world in apocalyptic Russia although a different setting it is pretty much the same type of game as fallout tactics or fallout 2 but I find it very enjoyable very lengthy game translation is a little iffy in spots but for the most part they have done very well with it and definitely a game I would highly recommend.

I like this game, it has decnt amount of stuff to do and actaully like some aspects of the story but (like most reviws) the gameplay and RNG is at times unfair, you can get good gear one run but very bad gear the next, at the same time you can win a battle and lose a battle the same way, dont know how many times i got knocked out and beaten to death because it takes a few turns to recover. If the Devs (or mods) fix how unbalanced it is then sure, the game will be 5 star but for now, i have to keep it half way.

Good game