ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game
After spending over 150 hours and an almost complete playthrough on this gem of a title, I thought it needed to be known what future enthusiasts may encounter when purchasing ATOM RPG. The game itself plays like a hardcore, top-down, turn-based, open-world RPG, with a degree of emphasis on survival elements (namely an in-game arbitrary hunger attribute). For some, this already may feel like a turn off due to added complexity, but for those who enjoy a challenge, then this is the game for you.
! Be warned though, this game is hard, especially in the early stages.
– Real player with 165.8 hrs in game
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I have recieved this game as a gift from my friend, as I bought him the game first. As much as I played this game since May this year, I don’t feel like this game is truly polished after 1.0 release. I’ll keep updating this review as I’ll keep re-exploring the game, as well as the game patches will be coming out.
BALANCING
Welp. There’s none.
But to be serious - if you haven’t played this game before - prepare to get your ass kicked. A lot. Permadeath mechanic is okay in games that are balanced, but ATOM RPG isn’t one of them. You’re the most agile and the strongest character in the post-apo Russia? Well, too bad. Everybody has been training kung fu since age of three, and you’ll get kicked and punched to death pretty easily. Somehow, common civillians and elderly are stronger than actual bandits or cultists (which it would make you think they’re ones who should be stronger but that’s not the case. NPCs are also magicians that enchant their bullets and blades, making them seemingly deal more damage than you’d be capable of (even if you met the requirements!), resulting in a scenario where you’re one who is in a leather suit armed with hunting rifle but dying to a bandit with nothing but his underpants and a zip gun.
– Real player with 155.7 hrs in game
Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG
I used to love this game. but the latest update has ruined it for me. everything is still good until you touch the relic in the Nashville cave. I have now been stuck in the maelstrom for over an hour, there is no goal, no point to head for, you simply run inside the maelstrom going nowhere, and its pretty much game over. Once you have encountered the 2 groups in the mist, you should be returned to the cave no more than a minute later. Until this is fixed the game is dead as far as i am concerned, and i am actively advising my friends that have played encased to not return to the game.
– Real player with 341.5 hrs in game
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extremely good game concept, first 20ish hours were some of the best RPG ive played so far this decade then after act 1 it just falls flat. pure lack of content from there on. never in my life have i played an RPG with so few quests. Of the 5 major factions they each get 1 settlement and a single chain of 3 main quests. sometimes side quests have you go to a different faction settlement to complete it, but thats about it.
the worst aspect is the loot. from the lazy items themselves to the loot chances to horrible merchant mechanics it had me tearing my hair the whole time. here is the defining story of my one single run of this game.
– Real player with 258.4 hrs in game
Lost Scavenger
How long could you survive in a parallel universe where the Mist dictates its rules? Would you be able to find the way to your homeworld, or will you adapt to live under the Mist domain? Fight for resources, get together with other survivors and discover the secrets of this world. This is your story.
Lost scavenger is a hardcore game about surviving in an open world that is overrun by the Mist. You play as an ordinary guy from our world that has fallen into an anomaly and found himself in a world that has been haunted by the Mist for the last 30 years. How far could you make it in a dying world in which every step may be your last? Would you be able to find the way to your homeworld, or will you adapt to live under the Mist domain? Fight for resources, get together with other survivors and discover the secrets of this world. This is your story.
Features:
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Unique world. The postapocalyptic world shrouded in impenetrable Mist. Small anclaves of survivours are scattered around what has left of the world. Do you have what it takes to find your path through all this?
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Active pause. It triggers after your every action so you can thoroughly read your surroundings, make assessions and plan your further actions.
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One life only. Your characters live only once. If they die, they die. Game over. And yet, it is a cruel world you’re going into, and nobody says that you can’t expose your companions and sacrifice them in battle to save your own life!
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No grind. No character leveling, no skill trees, no EXP whatsoever. Instead, you have to learn to play better, use your strengths and compensate your weaknesses. Git gud!
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Randomly generated world. Different biomes, weather conditions, anclaves and quests make every playthrough unique.
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Immersive simulation. The narration is dynamic and depends on your world generation settings and actions that you perform in that world. Every playthrough is a new story. And it is not necessary to follow the storyline: you can just wander around the world to try yourself!
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Virtues and flaws. Choose what you’re good at and what you’re not every time you start the new game. Unlock new traits during your adventure. New traits will give you the access to new abilities and dialogue options!
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The vast crafting system that lets you experiment or craft unique items from recipes that may be found throughout the world.
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Battles with a wide range of tactical techniques.
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Realistic damage. Creatures have a complex damage system, including locational damage, bleeding, painkillers, infections and aggravation.
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Realistic metabolism: fatigue, hunger, dehydration, hypothermia, diseases, intoxication.
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Mutations: characters affected by the Mist might get their limbs or organs mutated, which will grand them unpredictable effects.
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Realistic inventory. A complex item management system with both weight and volume limits forces players to carry only what is most necessary to character’s survival.
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Hexagonal map. Travel through ruins, hills, forests and plains on a hexagonal map. Direct visibility, altitude and daylight affect the viewing distance.
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Settlements: meet other survivors in their enclaves. They may provide food, rest and medical care. If you have something to give in return.
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Scouting: use your gear to explore your surroundings.
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Stealth tactics: search hiding places, use camouflage and ambush your enemy.
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Hunting: hunt wildfowl for food and fur, or hunt down big ones for rare ingredients.
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Use your lockpicking skills to open stashes with precious loot.
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Foraging. Search for edible plants and water sources, and use special skills to determine what is safe to consume.
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World inhabitants AI. Everything on the map lives its own life. Creatures wander around, gather resources, hunt each other or gather into packs to higher their chances to survive, which means a great danger to the player.
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Dynamic weather: daytime cycle, temperature, precipitation - and all of that depends on a season. For now, you always start in the middle of the autumn, and if you’re strong enough, you will be able to live until winter.
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ATOM RPG Trudograd
Edit #2
After completing what i believe to be most of the new content and testing the balance changes that came with the latest update, I can gladly say this game is in a pretty good place now. I’ll address the problems I had in the previous patch below and how they were fixed below.
Fist off as always is combat. Enemies now more consistently take damage, so long as you are fully invested in what ever type you choose. There’s really not a lot of room for using multiple forms of combat, if you’re gonna go for automatics or rifles, you have to go in. You’re not gonna have enough points left over for other weapon skills to still have enough points for other skills unless you’re importing a character from the first game that’s some ungodly high level. One final thing to note about combat is that melee enemies still seem to do crazy amounts of damage. This wouldn’t be too much of an issue if they didn’t stun and crit you as often as they do. I swear i must have been crit more times in one hour of this game that the entire campaign of the previous one. Not that it’s too much of an issue, I found that as long as you have enough AP you can run away and shoot every other turn. Just make sure you avoid anyone with armor and a knuckleduster.
– Real player with 135.0 hrs in game
Quick and dirty review
Pros:
-Updated interface
-Perk system
-Weapon mods
-No need to buy the first game if you want to experience the atom world
-The world is still a fucked up hellscape with random and various strokes of gray as most choices just like the first don’t have a good ending just people surviving
cons:
-its not fully released yet AND I NEED MY GOOD RPG GAME FIX NOW!
Full review of what i so far think of the game:
So far i’m once again enjoying the atom world this definitely an expansion and for the full experience you should play the first game so you can import your character over and gain a better understanding of both the world and whats going on in this story, but you don’t have to as this can be played alone and with out context from the previous story if you just want a taste before possibly deciding to buy the previous game. While this isn’t as harsh as the previous game you can up the difficulty if needed as people that import there character may find this to be a bit too easy or too hard depending on your builds as you wont be able to fill in gaps using companions right away so for more for those importing characters you may want to even start a new one from scratch, but that’s just my own view you should always give a chance to your current build and see how it turns out. As for the overall story and not revealing spoilers you are thrown into searching for a solution to a very large and imminent threat the world still retains its bleak outset with many citizens within Trudograd suffering within the great city and some having grown soft inside its walls making certain decisions and quests just like the previous game not having the desired effect you want or a happy ending if there even is one. I would simply say this is the Atom team giving us a wonderful expansion and if you cant wait and need a taste give it a try or wait for the full release and get the full product as if you don’t want to wait for updates.
– Real player with 71.0 hrs in game
Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
“Mutant”, the pen-and-paper RPG which was born in 1984, the same year as Teenage Mutant Ninja cooters. Those two ideas weren’t that close visually in the ’80s. Swedish RPG “Mutant” was about harsh survival in the post-apocalyptic world which faced several catastrophes, one after another: global warming, viral pandemic, nuclear explosions. Most of the survivors turned into semi-intelligent ghoul cannibals, but the centers of civilization, such as the Ark, around which the action of the “Mutant” parties revolves, remain. Here among the surviving people, there was a place for mutants. They are better adapted to existence outside the Ark (in the Zone), so they work for the Ark society as scouts/hunters (stalkers). The main tasks are the extraction of useful resources to maintain the life of the Ark and its development, as well as protection from ghoul enemies. The board game turned out to be pretty tough, fraught with a quick loss in case of unsuccessful dice rolls and wrong choices. In addition, stalkers in the search always had a chance to catch a random, completely unpredictable mutation in advance - and then face all its unpleasant side effects.
– Real player with 76.3 hrs in game
Mutant Year Zero is a tactical RPG in the style of Wasteland 2 – similar environments, similar developments, similar tactics. Yet the game has a unique flavor of its own. You control three out of five characters which are all a little weird. Each character has their own abilities, and has their uses in the game. The game is full of tactical fights, many of which take a lot of thinking and planning to live through. Some of these fights are incredibly challenging, and definitely worthwhile to beat. The graphics are pretty good, with fantastic atmospheric lighting.
– Real player with 41.4 hrs in game
OUTTA GAS
Meat!!!
What happens when you take the full metal humor of Full Throttle mix it with a turned based combat system reminiscent to the VATS system in fallout and mix it all into a graphical aesthetic that looks like the lovechild of an adult swim cartoon and newgrounds animations. The combat mechanic alone is fun enough to sink some time into this one. You aim at your enemy wherever you want with whatever weapon it it destroys them layer by layer in a boxed grid style if it hits. Different weapons and skills have a chance to hit them in that particular spot based a variety of factors. There’s a diverse set of “uglies” to fight, weapons to use, and powerups to find. There’s also secrets to discover throughout the fairly long game. Set out into the wasteland collecting meat as a currency for upgrades in the quest to find gas to keep yourself driving through the wasteland.
– Real player with 57.1 hrs in game
Outta Gas has a retro, throwback, feel to it. Lots of little easter eggs and nods to classic games, film, etc. The soundtrack is fantastic, and also calls back to nostalgic times.
Turn-based combat with increasingly more complex levels as the game progresses. The dialogue has equal bits of wit, snark, and innuendo.
Coded, animated, and voiced by one dude, this game has a lot of heart, sweat, and tears in it. There’s also a lot of blood, but I don’t think any of that is the game designer’s. :)
– Real player with 47.7 hrs in game
Wasteland 3
This is a fun, mildly complicated party-based, turn-based game full of various strategies & tactics, with a large focus on combat tactics. You can play on hard-core mode & min-max everything, or just play casual & have fun with various builds.
The setting is post-apocalyptic, & you gradually fill out your squad of “Rangers” on your team. You mainly choose their weapons & skills, ranging from beefy (or speedy) melee specialists to glass cannon snipers who deal death from afar. Or go in between with pistols, automatic weapons, & machine guns. Skills, aside from the weapons mentioned, include dialogue specializations, explosives, science stuff, stealth (not very fleshed out, but useful for sneaking up on enemies), dealing with robots, taming various animals, etc. Pretty much every skill is useful.
– Real player with 417.7 hrs in game
I’d highly recommend it. It most definitely feels like a combination of X-Com style combat and Fallout post apocalypse atmosphere. I very much enjoyed the story, voice acting, music and plethora of choices. I liked both DLCs because they both added time to the game, blended well with the main story AND added a new mechanic in each case. I did three full sessions with a good-ish and bad-ish run on Ranger and a November Reigns min-max playthru on SuperJerk. Once you get a feel for the game, it becomes much easier. I learned new things in each playthru too about both game mechanics and story choices. I was pretty impressed with one in particular where I found out about a special type of armor you can get. In my last playthru, I tried to get it but because I pissed off the wrong group of people earlier (which I never thought would matter), they STOLE it from me later. I was both bummed I didn’t get it and happy it was a “thing”.
– Real player with 247.1 hrs in game
UnderRail
So… Underrail. Like many others Sseth convinced me to buy the game, but I don’t think he mentioned enough all the save scumming and reloading.
I both like and greatly dislike the game, but I do not think it is essentially a fun game. I’m going to list pros and cons.
Pros:
-Lots of available builds and a lot of build freedom… except it’s less free than it appears. Also like the addition of psychic powers.
-Like the cyberpunk post-apocalyptic ambience but underground. Music is on point. Graphics are only alright, but that’s not the point of th game.
– Real player with 164.3 hrs in game
I wanted to rip my cock off: 9/10
– Real player with 137.2 hrs in game
Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game
فول اوت 1 مهما اثنيت عليها لن اعطيها حقها . لعبة نزلت عام 1997 قدمت قصة جدا جميلة وذكاء اصطناعي جدا مذهل. عمل جبار صراحتا استمتعت بكل دقيقة قضيتها في اللعبة
– Real player with 70.5 hrs in game
This can be a bit overwhelming to get started with so I recommend looking up a guide at first, and then when you get a feel for the game, you’ll probably end up liking it a lot more than you expect to. Extra points for a stellar atmosphere and a pretty solid storyline.
– Real player with 50.2 hrs in game
Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game
Literal boomer trash balanced like dogshit, incomprehensibly RNG, AND THIS FUCKING GAME KEEPS CRASHING AT THE FINAL BOSS. Cozy to cheese through tho.
– Real player with 101.0 hrs in game
great game. feels like getting punched in the family jewels until you’re used to it then its not so bad, but then later it punches harder. also don’t do what i did and fight everyone in navarro that’s part of the punching harder i spent 8 hours for that alone
– Real player with 73.1 hrs in game