![]() ![]() But the game flourishes in its depiction of a fallen communist regime through solid writing, coated with Soviet culture and an array of interesting and wacky characters. It does falter into the clichéd territory towards the end and the final boss fight is underwhelming at the best. While the story of ATOM isn’t going to bring home any awards, it’s a semi-decent plot shrouded in mystery and intrigue. How you survive the wasteland is up to you. From here on out, the player is handed complete reins of the character. ![]() The story begins with the player character getting robbed of all their possessions by a group of bandits while on the road. You are sent forth into the Wasteland to find a lost ATOM expedition team on the search for a mysterious pre-war bunker. You play as an agent of ATOM, a secret organization aiming to restore the motherland to its former glory. The scars left behind by the war still remains in the heart and bodies of the waste dwellers. ATOM RPG DETAILED REVIEWĪTOM is set in early 2000s Russia, devastated by a nuclear holocaust that took place a little over two decades ago. Developed and published by Atom Team, the game was released into Steam Early Access towards the end of last year and was released out of Early Access on December 19, 2018. 50 hours it took me to answer these two not-so-simple questions does ATOM delivers on the promises made and is it a good RPG? Let’s find out.ĪTOM RPG is a post-apocalyptic indie game, inspired by classic CRPGs: Fallout, Wasteland, System Shock, Deus Ex and Baldur’s Gate for Microsoft Windows. It’s how I came to notice ATOM, a crowdfunded indie RPG ‘heavily inspired’ by the classic Fallouts. So it’s no wonder that I’ve been on the lookout for a game to scratch this particular itch for quite some time. Call me a Nostalgia-stricken purist but it is what it is. The same can be said for Underrail, Wasteland 2 and Age of Decadence. While I’ve grown to like Bethesda’s first attempt at Fallout and loved Obsidian’s take on Bethesda’s formula, they didn’t exactly prove to be a Fallout 2 substitute for me. Fallout 2 stands the test of time as one of my top two favourite games ever since 1999. ![]()
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