ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game

I am big fan of classic Fallout games and I was excited when my friend recommended me this game. I played Atom RPG from start to finish, I have done most of the sidequests and I finished main quest with more than one ending. I will start with good things about the game: - Despite having a little bit older PC (i5 4670K, GeForce 980 GTX, 16 GB RAM) game worked smoothly on maximum details without any frame skipping. It only crashed once during my 43 hours of play time. - I liked the atmosphere of the game. We did not play as some typical chosen one hero but a regular soldier who was sent on a mission by a secret organisation in post-apocalytpic world. - NPCs felt alive and unique. I really liked the idea of giving each one a portrait to better represent them. - Combat system was the same as in classic Fallout games. Companion AI was on a level where it did not felt frustrating fighting together with them. It made fights enjoyable. - I like the gameplay feature to switch between regular and isometric view. What are the bad things? - Level scaling for weapons and armor prevented your character from finding good inventory. Basically there was not much point of exploring a pre-war bunker if you knew that you are not going to find anything useful apart of some health restoring items and tinkering materials. - Bunkers and other underground "dungeons" were really big, but not that interesting. Again this was partially caused by lack of good rewards due to level scaling. Having a higher level weapon or armor at the end of the location could be a nice reward for exploration. Instead it was quite tedious. - Tinkering skill was rarely useful. Mainly because hand crafted weapons had a 10% chance to break when used. - Repeating dialogs with NPCs, the so called "four questions". - Names of the NPCs could be shown without NPC telling us their name. I know it is not realistic, but could help a lot when looking for them. Especially since not all of them share this information.

I am having a blast playing this, and I DID expect a lot from the game, as old isometric Fallouts are in my "top 5 of all time" list. The current version (1.1) is in my experience free of any bugs. I am 50+ hours in, taking my time roaming across the eastern wasteland :) and getting excited with myriad of little details and references scattered across - clearly this was made by people who are fans of old isometric CRPGs, and that is obvious in every screen of the game. The fact that the game does not hold your hand is very refreshing, and improves the feeling of being lost and resourceless at the beginning at least - you'll have to "earn" everything, nothing is given for free, and that is more than welcome in my opinion. Of course, I can list some things which would improve the game, but taking the price and value into account, this is a GEM!

well, what a surprise. i didn't expect to love atom that much. all these negative reviews almost prevented me from buying it, but it ended up being one of the best crpgs i've ever played. atom is a love letter to fallout, not just a "clone". atom is the reason why i love video games. i'm playing an alcoholic character who uses his dog and his slave to carry his booze. doesn't get better than that! since everything has already been said about atom, just read the previous reviews for more details.

Quite solid successor of Fallout 1&2, describing the Soviet side of the Armageddon. Coming from a post-Soviet culture myself, I quite enjoyed the gags and references, although someone with Western background might miss quite a lot (I guess the same in reverse applies to Fallout series). Pros: + Reasonably large, believable world + Loads of side quests, sometimes intertwined, with interesting twists + Variety of gear and items in general + OK graphics for the genre Cons: - Some skills are a bit underused (yes, Pickpocket, I'm looking at you - the one that's mandatory to use in exactly _one_ quest in the entire game) - Some random encounters felt unbalanced (you get overwhelmed quickly, esp. at the beginning) - Lack of money at the vendors - No voiceovers (I know this is budget-dependent, but still...) Overall pretty nice impression and I'm looking forward to the sequel.

This was one of my favorite games during the pandemic. There was very little hand holding which was a nice relief. An actual challenge in RPGs is a rare thing. The Dialog is witty and everyone has something to say. It's political without being slanted pro russia or anti usa. Overall, just a fun, dark rpg with great moments of humor to lighten up such a dark subject matter. I can't see any rpg fan not enjoying this game.. and the sequal Trudograd. MUST PLAY.