Influences: From checking out the gameplay footage, you can see Atomic Heart's obvious nods to BioShock, Stalker, and Nier: Automata.

You used to be able to download an RTX demo of Atomic Heart, but the old link now just redirects to the game's homepage.

Word on support for AMD's ray tracing on RDNA2 GPUs remains minimal at this point. RTX ray tracing support: Atomic Heart will support Nvidia's RTX and DLSS technologies. How it all works remains a mystery, but some gameplay footage has shown modifying your loadout to boost your stats. Weapons can be crafted and perhaps found.Ĭrafting: Some weapons might be found (we don't know for sure), but there is a crafting system for you to create makeshift weaponry to fight off baddies. Ammo will probably be scarce and from some of the videos we've seen, it seems like even basic enemies will hit hard and fast. In a 2018 interview with PC Gamer, Mundfish CEO Robert Bagratuni said that Atomic Heart was 'conceived as an open world game,' saying that the game's map is 'a vast circle, the borders of which reach the Arctic in the north, Altai mountain in the south, and with plains, lakes and much more in the middle.' Plant 3826 itself is spread out over the map with different area for players to tackle.Ĭombat: In Atomic Heart, you will use a mix of ranged and melee weapons to fight off enemies and bosses.

You will encounter killer robots and other oddities as you fight to survive and uncover the truth. You play as Major P-3 who is sent to investigate Plant 3826, which has gone silent. Science has made huge strides, including robotics.

Plot and setting: Atomic Heart is a first-person action RPG set in an alternate universe where the Soviet Union still exists. We'll break them down into their own subsections below. Since word about Atomic Heart has made the rounds for a few years now, we have plenty of things to talk about.

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