ATOM RPG: Trudograd

game crashes every time when i get to the rats

...although I only played it for 5 minutes after I skipped all the dialogue without reading it. Then tried to get a key to get out of my bedroom, but didn't have the patience to pick the lock. Perhaps I'll play again if it ever gets better. Overall it seems pretty good. Well done.

To start off, I feel like it's missing tons of content right now, f.e. a whole map populated by only two people (Police Station), not counting not interactable passersby and many other things which betray it's early access status. That's not the reason why I rated it at 2 stars though. I'm judging only what's in the game right now, without criticising it's length as well as technical problems and optimization (which right now is terrible honestly when compared to the original Atom RPG). I will also update this review accordingly after the full release. I usually wouldn't bother with reviewing an in-dev game, however, it is EXTREMLY tedious, I honestly haven't played a game that would be piss me off so much in a long time. For example, a couple of hours in I had two quests that were very similar and involved lots of running around between different neighbourhoods. Which is sufficiently annoying by itself, especially if you weren't doing them simultaneously. And the interesting ones were over in a heartbeat. However, finding the people you need to talk to in the cramped maps often required to search every nook and cranny and having LOTS of pointless dialogues, especially if you missed that one guy you were looking for. I was so annoyed by these errands that I was skipping most of the dialogue, which was plentiful, just to get them finished. I even stopped accepting side quests alltogether from the people I found while looking for that one bloke that I had to find. The fact that, from what I've seen thus far, the game is contained exclusively in the city doesn't help in alleviating boredom, it does quite the opposite actually. I hope that in the finished game devs will include some locations outside the city limits. To sum it all up, don't get it now if you want to play.

The first game did it as well but not to this extend, but some good equipment is being locked behind "supporter" dlc, which is just another terrible trend in the gaming industry. Don't support this behaviour. One of the dlc outfits raises your persuation / barter skills, which are generally hard to raise since not many items buff these stats. Eurojank.