


"Atomic Heart Has the Coolest Trailer of the Year, But What Actually Is It?". ^ "What do we know about Atomic Heart?".The report stated that development had been rebooted as of August 2018, and it resulted in a gameplay downgrade. In January 2019, a report was published on gaming forum ResetEra that cited anonymous sources within Mundfish who reported about mass layoffs and incompetency at the studio. However, later in September it was announced that the game will instead be released in Q1 2023, self-published by Mundfish in the CIS, and by French-based company Focus Entertainment worldwide. In February 2022 a story trailer showed that Atomic Heart will launch in "#BER", suggesting the game's release in September, October, November, or December of 2022. The studio uses Unreal Engine 4 and implements Nvidia RTX and DLSS technologies in the GeForce RTX graphics cards.

The team has previously developed the VR game Soviet Lunapark, but ceased development and delisted the game in late 2018 to focus on Atomic Heart. Development and release Ītomic Heart is developed by Mundfish, a Russian studio with headquarters in Cyprus. The main protagonist is a mentally unstable KGB special agent called P-3, who is sent by the government to investigate a manufacturing facility that has fallen silent, only to find out that the machines have gone rogue and are bioengineering strange experiments. A believer in a collective consciousness, Sechenov plans to launch the most advanced iteration of the "Collectiv" on his 55th birthday in 1955. This results in the automation of much of Soviet labor and the development of a proto-Internet called the "Collectiv 1.0" linking these robots, vastly increasing productivity and scientific advancement by the end of the 1940s.Ĭoncurrently, scientist Dmitriy Sechenov develops the "neuro-polymer", a programmable module based on living tissue. Advances in robotics in the 1930s enabled the USSR to defeat Nazi Germany in 1941, though with a much more severe loss of life. Plot Setting Ītomic Heart takes place in the Soviet Union in an alternate 1955. Quick-time events are also featured in the game. Weapons can also be upgraded via a mechanic called "casettes.” Ammo in the game is scarce, and there is a sneaking option. There is a crafting system where the weapons can be pieced together from metal parts that can be detached from robots or taken from household appliances. The combat in the game consists of shooting and melee swinging with improvised weapons. A screenshot of the interface, with a makeshift weapon on screenĪtomic Heart is a FPS video game with action role-playing elements.
