ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game

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Communist version of Fallout. Unfortunatelly, it's a terrible knock-off. If you want a good game similar to Fallout, I recommend Encased.

играл в неё ещё с момента первых появлений в сети... и только сейчас дошли руки купить. С кучей мемов, отсылок. Микро проблемы может и есть, но как по мне, незначительные. Крч ГОЙДА!

Ash drifts through wastelands Vodka warms the ruined night Choices haunt the road

If you are a fan of cRPGs, it is already a great game. If you like classic Fallout and/or stalker, metro etc. generally speaking post apocalyptic themes, you have to play this cRPG. Solid 8/10 Pros: +Multiple viable combat builds +Lots of skill or stat checks +Some quests actually allow these checks to be applied in dialogue and that can lead into a solution +Quests and characters are interesting +Dialogue is not cringe, generally well written +Combat is very fun and fluid +Side quests are mostly engaging +Raiding caravans or peaceful stalkers actually have consequences Neutral: >Locations are ok. Unfortunately not too great. Compared to The Hub (FO1), New Reno (FO2) or Tarant (Arcanum), locations in Atom RPG unfortunately not interesting. They are just ok >Rest of dialogue is just ok >Some quests are.... just ok (not a bad thing tho) >Leveling up and character building is good but unfortunately you have to grind too many random encounters to farm experience. Quests don't give much exp. So, leveling up is in neutral Cons: -Some maps are unnecessarily big without allowing you to exit from any edge/corner of map. This is a big issue. Even when you camp to cook or enter a random encounter, you might have to walk a while to exit. Not all edges count as exiting map for some reason. It is not a good design choice. It won't take forever but it becomes exhausting -Pacing is not smooth. After mid game you just do everything very fast and world map travel speed will bother you -Map travel speed is an issue. I understand that it makes sense in first map. However it becomes incredibly boring not only in mountains, but it becomes very annoying in dead city. Especially dead city metro. For few quests, you travel at snail speed. That world map is not designed well. It was boring and frustrating. You can't use all tunnels in metro because there are rubbles blocking some tunnels. No shortcuts. Ok. So lets walk entire map in snail speed. Not good. -Some speech checks you can encounter in early game require comically high level of skill and you might not be able to re-do them -not all NPCs need to be talkable. Almost every NPC is talkable even if they dont provide any info. They might tell you their name, what they do etc. No. Fallout 1-2 did it with "over the head texts". It added some personality to locations. IF a player can initiate dialogue screen with an NPC it should at least serve a purpose. And yeah, to find quests you will talk to everyone which becomes exhausting after a while -You do a lot of quests but they give little experience, and most experience comes from combat random encounters

This really is Russian Fallout 1-2 with better graphics. It's about the size of Fallout 2 (with a similar amount of annoying world map backtracking) although the setting feels more like Fallout 1 to me. It plays very faithfully, including some questionable choices (like the slow map movement, uncontrollable companions and clunky inventory) but if you could handle them in Fallout, you can definitely handle them here. For me, ATOM's best quality is recapturing the mystery of Fallout 1. With the same love of ambiguity, subtle references and humour, you don't always know what's folklore/rumour/a joke and what's real (unlike actual Fallout stuff that's become well-known franchise icons: super mutants, ghouls, deathclaws, the Brotherhood, Vault experiments, etc.). That's just the nature of sequels - even good ones like Fallout 2 and NV. Ironically, being a new IP makes ATOM closer to the experience of Fallout 1. And the lack of English resources online contributes to this (although obviously that has downsides). The early game has a really great survival feel with every food item, bottle of vodka or handful of bullets feeling important. Unfortunately, it loses that later on and becomes the classic juggling carry weight and running out of merchants to buy all your expensive loot. And sadly there isn't much of an endgame: by the time you get high level gear, there's almost nothing left to do and the actual ending is surprisingly abrupt. This is a very open game with a surprisingly short main quest and a lot of side content (and backtracking). That's not an issue - side quests feels worthwhile because a lot of key areas are money gated. And the quests are good with lots of interesting, ambiguous choices. BUT it often feels like there's not much consequence to what you do. And that + the short main quest + the anticlimactic ending + all the backtracking makes the game SEEM a lot smaller in hindsight than it actually was. XP balancing also seems a bit off with combat giving WAY more XP than quests or skill checks, e.g. killing a few rats ≈ completing a side quest. This is weird because it feels like punishing non-combat solutions, which the game otherwise does a good job of supporting. Don't get me wrong, this is a strong recommend for any Fallout 1-2 fans. Just go in with realistic expectations. This is like a version of Fallout 1 from an alternate dimension; it is NOT the Platonic ideal of the lost Fallout franchise.

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