Publisher Focus Entertainment and developer Mundfish have announced that their upcoming Action RPG/FPS game Atomic Heart has gone gold, and they restated that the release date is set for February 21. Atomic Heart will be available for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC.
“From the beginning, we wanted to tell the story of where progress and technology can spiral out of control and tell a fantastic story of a confrontation between man and machine,” the developer said to Wccftech earlier this month. The multinational team at Mundfish reiterated its desire to create an extraordinary and unique single-player game. Sadly, its ambitious for multiplayer had to be abandoned mid-development, but that was only for the sake of expanding on the player experience in every possible aspect with post release DLC.
Exploring the world of Atomic Heart is certainly an appealing prospect, as the story takes place in an alternate version of the Soviet Union back in 1955. The USSR was still able to defeat Nazi Germany, but this happened at a greater human loss, which led to the automation of labor and development of a collective robot hive mind. The protagonist is also someone who is able to access this man-made collective thought network and gain access to various psychic powers like telekinesis and freezing, though at the cost of his own mental health.
Game director Robert Bagratuni recently spoke to Gamingtrend about the studio’s inspirations, saying the team emphasized Soviet Modernism and utopian spirit in the architecture, and etched some Half-Life DNA into the environments to make each location unique. He also added that each weapon and power were crafted with balance in mind, and there are some leeways to act if you run out of ammo through psychic powers and melee attacks.
The main campaign will take 25 hours to finish, according to the developer. If the players want to go deeper, they will find many interesting objects and hidden laboratories to explore, and these locations will be available even after finishing the main story. A number of additional stories are also waiting there to be discovered and add more to the nuanced setting of the game.