Atomic Heart

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7.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 2387 Ratings

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  1. ddrr
    Feb 25, 2023
    9
    The game is good. Not a masterpiece but sound 9 overall. Hilarious that almost all zeros on the metacritic rating are from new accounts specially created for this game lol.
  2. Eloyjf
    Feb 28, 2023
    9
    Atomic Heart
    It was exactly the game I wanted to play so much after so many failures and open world experiences.
  3. Gallbond
    Feb 23, 2023
    9
    Игра про гигачада, ебашущего роботов. Что может быть лучше?
    Но -1 за то, что мультики в сейвзоне не работают
  4. Smc88
    Feb 24, 2023
    9
    Graphics are too notch. Game play and combat are very very fun and slightly addicting. Story is funny and edgy. And best of all it’s not like all most all new games are right now. Which is super politically correct and watered down with **** I could of done without The overwhelming communist tone. But that’s my capitalist opinion lol.
  5. JustnotherGuy
    Feb 23, 2023
    9
    Everything I wanted comes I this game. A weird world that is interesting to explore and honestly haunting. The gameplay is straight from the bioshock infinite but with a lot more impact. The dialog can be cringe worthy, but i appreciated the world building it provided. The music rocks my socks I do say
  6. Stirh
    Feb 26, 2023
    9
    An unexpectedly fun game. Game idea similar to bioshock, Portal and some classic shooters.
    This game is not for everyone, but it's great
  7. SirDubrovskiy
    Feb 23, 2023
    9
    It's a good game.
    Kids who rate the game looking at the political situation in the world I want to point out that the game is rated 18+, so you have to wait another 10 years before you play and rate the game, but to rate not on the national characteristic of the developers.
  8. svonton
    Feb 28, 2023
    9
    This game represents another (non-common) loock on retro-futurism i mean commonly when you think about this art style you can remember such games as Bioshock or Fallout and so on but all these games represent American retro-futurism here we got Soviet Union aesthetics. it permeates every aspect of the game. Recognizable soundtracks that can vary as remixes or be original as it were.This game represents another (non-common) loock on retro-futurism i mean commonly when you think about this art style you can remember such games as Bioshock or Fallout and so on but all these games represent American retro-futurism here we got Soviet Union aesthetics. it permeates every aspect of the game. Recognizable soundtracks that can vary as remixes or be original as it were. Recognizable elements of furniture from the Soviet Union that are probably still in your basement/garage or even in your room (I’m talking about CIS). And from this point of view, it is kinda impressive how this old technology represented and developed in something new in case of retro-futurism. But if we look at the graphical part of the game as it is you can notice that the open world has much less detail and looks kinda empty compared to closed spaces such as different factories, hospitals or theatres. So in conclusion audio/visual part of the game is very strong, especially from point of view of CIS players. The gameplay part is an interesting mix of first-person shooter and puzzle game, and to my taste game is kinda overloaded with puzzles it no so complicated but it is met too often. Arsenal in this game is no so big but offset by a large number of upgrades. The last thing is a plot of the game which permeates by a lot of jokes (some of them are kinda vulgar some of them can be understood only by CIS players) with some interest twists. Another great fact is that game can offer not only a happy end (i hate how often nowadays a game has only this option) but also a bad ending. As result we got game that like layered cake some of the layer you will enjoy so much some of them you will glad to miss but overal its original strong game which brings a breath of fresh air into the established niche of retrofuturism.

    P.S. I forgot to say that this game doesn't have any technical issues compared to the latest game releases, is it that hard to optimize games?    … Expand
  9. Ragnar1987
    Mar 2, 2023
    9
    All bad comments are like"soviet propaganda", "Russia - terrorist state", "VK play exclusive, **** you developers". But **** this comments. Who will go to the endgame will see that this game is not soviet пропаганда. Who don't want to buy game in VK can buy gamepass. People who thinks that society should ignore game just because of russian developers are insane nazis!
    Talking about game    All bad comments are like"soviet propaganda", "Russia - terrorist state", "VK play exclusive, **** you developers". But **** this comments. Who will go to the endgame will see that this game is not soviet пропаганда. Who don't want to buy game in VK can buy gamepass. People who thinks that society should ignore game just because of russian developers are insane nazis!
    Talking about game it's amazing. Very original and beautiful setting. Addictive game play. Good story. 2 things I don't like are sense of humor of main character, and eternal resurrection of robots in open world is more annoying thing than challenge.
    I can recommend this game to all fans of retrofuturism and all FPS games fans.    … Expand
  10. N2x
    Feb 22, 2023
    9
    One of the best games of 2023 at the moment. Graphics, puzzles, gameplay, bso etc... GREAT GAME. Thanks mundfish.
  11. benatan
    Feb 26, 2023
    9
    Sin duda una grata sorpresa, gran lección de un estudio pequeño de como deben hacerse las cosas
  12. changmisero
    Mar 11, 2023
    9
    Amazing setting and visuals. great music. good combat, melee could be improved. interesting story and great world-building. Amazing game overall.
  13. mcruser
    Feb 22, 2023
    9
    May be not perfect graphic for 2023? but great soundtrack and atmosphere. Minus point for too hard mobs. Plus point for animation of Twins, great rig work.
  14. Lugocain
    Mar 12, 2023
    9
    I was expecting nothing with this game, but what a surprise I found.
    Why a surprise? Because It does nothing wrong. It could be better animated? Yes. It could have better gameplay? Of course. Better world building? Of course.
    Then why this game is so good? Because there are not flake points. The story is interesting, the gameplay and skills are fun enough, and the characters are pretty    I was expecting nothing with this game, but what a surprise I found.
    Why a surprise? Because It does nothing wrong. It could be better animated? Yes. It could have better gameplay? Of course. Better world building? Of course.

    Then why this game is so good? Because there are not flake points. The story is interesting, the gameplay and skills are fun enough, and the characters are pretty good.

    If this was an AAA game, this would be a 6, maybe 6.5. But for an "almost" indie game? And the first studio's game??? This is a solid 9.

    Can't wait to see what more comes from these guys.    … Expand
  15. gabrieuum
    Mar 16, 2023
    9
    It is a great game, the only thing I disliked it was some bugs. Two times I lost my save while I was playing and my character became stuck in the map lol. So when I loaded the game, my save was from 2 hours ago (and I saved a lot of times after that!). Some other minor visual bugs, but in general the game is beautiful and the story is very interesting.
  16. Dulcino
    Jul 4, 2023
    9
    Este juego no le envidia nada a un Bioshock o a un DIshonored.

    La historia es buena y la ambientación, tanto los lugares como la música, son lo que la hacen espectacular. La jugabilidad tampoco se queda atrás. La calidad gráfica también es espectacular y no le envidia nada a otros juegos TOP del mismo género. Quizás deberían de haber más tutoriales o textos explicativos al principio    Este juego no le envidia nada a un Bioshock o a un DIshonored.

    La historia es buena y la ambientación, tanto los lugares como la música, son lo que la hacen espectacular. La jugabilidad tampoco se queda atrás. La calidad gráfica también es espectacular y no le envidia nada a otros juegos TOP del mismo género.

    Quizás deberían de haber más tutoriales o textos explicativos al principio que podrían ayudar a atajar ciertas confusiones. Aun así el juego no se me ha hecho complicado. Lo he jugado en dificultad media y los jefes finales no se me han hecho pesados (me he conseguido familiarizar con la mecánica y he jugado a bastantes juegos de este género). Podría haberlo jugado a dificultad máxima sin problema.

    PD: Este juego ha recibido un trato injusto al ser criticado por el hecho de ser, simplemente, ruso. Y es por eso que a nivel de Europa y Norteamérica (los países controlados por los EEUU y la OTAN) tanto desde los medios del videojuego como por parte de muchos jugadores ha recibido review bombing por el hecho de ser, simplemente, ruso.

    PD(2): Las revistas del videojuego ponen mejor nota a juegos que en calidad están mucho peor que este. Aka: Cyberpunk 2077 desde el primer día que salió; Fallout 4, Skyrim ANNIVERSARY EDITION,... ¿Porqué será? $$$    … Expand
  17. r03vg
    Aug 20, 2023
    9
    Сюжет будто обрывается на полуслове. Не люблю такой подход. А в остальном все понравилось - и торжество дизайна и технологии, музыка, подача. Разработчики очень постарались.
  18. VCa
    Feb 27, 2023
    9
    a quite good plot and gameplay overall, however, some things are not polished such as stealth and open world is quite empty
  19. anykey_
    Feb 25, 2023
    9
    In general, initially the game seemed to be like BioShock, according to the trailers, I was preparing for this. But, in the end, the game is a very good replacement for Half-Life. I was not disappointed that instead of BioShock I play Russian Half-Life. Probably, this is the first part, and in the second ability they will do much better, but so far I do not use them. More precisely, not asIn general, initially the game seemed to be like BioShock, according to the trailers, I was preparing for this. But, in the end, the game is a very good replacement for Half-Life. I was not disappointed that instead of BioShock I play Russian Half-Life. Probably, this is the first part, and in the second ability they will do much better, but so far I do not use them. More precisely, not as often as I did in Prey, BioShock and Dishonored. But, nevertheless, the game is very interesting and very cool. The game world is also very interesting. I like the micromanagement of guns, a backpack, this has not happened in my memory for a long time. I like all sorts of gadgets for guns, with additional damage to opponents. This moment, in contrast to the abilities, was done well. I love the cutscenes, they are beautiful. The plot is also very interesting, but for the most part it is the gameplay and audio diaries that give you. I missed that **** with Bioshock and Doom 3, I guess, where you could listen to the diary, get involved in the story and still play the game. But graphics are 50/50. This is Unreal Engine 4, and the shoals of graphics, because of which I want to say that these are Unreal Engine graphics are visible here to the naked eye. All the same, while different Home Engines, in terms of graphics, outperform Unreal. I hope the situation will change with the arrival of Unreal Engine 5 in games. I'm serious, you'll burn out badly if you stick to the local graphics in the game. If you want a grafonic game, on Unreal Engine, then you are in The Callisto Protocol. Music, not bad licensed, as well as mixed and Mick Gordon's music. Especially in computers and battles. In general, thanks to Mundfish for letting me return to 1998 and Half-Life, I hope that the second Atomic Heart will be in two or three years, and there will be less jambs, and more BioShock gameplay. Well, or Half-Life gameplay. 9 out of 10… Expand
  20. vgolev
    Feb 24, 2023
    9
    Good game. I love the world they’d created, and hope it will be more games and genres in this alternative universe. Good to see a real game with interesting and unique setting, working mechanics and good quality (which is not achievable for most of giants in this industry nowadays for some reason!). And sad to see dishonest reviews from press and users. Especially press, who pretend to beGood game. I love the world they’d created, and hope it will be more games and genres in this alternative universe. Good to see a real game with interesting and unique setting, working mechanics and good quality (which is not achievable for most of giants in this industry nowadays for some reason!). And sad to see dishonest reviews from press and users. Especially press, who pretend to be a good people and against terrible things like racism. But, it’s ok to rate the game much lower than it deserves just because it was made by Russians, and the world is alternative USSR. Such non-racist! But, it seems to be the same with hogwards legacy, when the game sells itself. Press and activists are nothing. Good luck to devs. You’ve made a great job.… Expand
  21. Telaelle
    May 7, 2023
    9
    Really great game, perfect sucessor for the bioshock. Plot is nice, gameplay very fun and this kind of graphic looks quite good. I did not found any important bugs and it is working on max quality on a 3060ti in 1440p which is rare for the productions released this year :).
  22. shershen
    Feb 22, 2023
    9
    Nice game, has its flaws, but looks and sounds great, runs smooth and fun to play. What else do we need?
  23. FMeloLeGiOn
    May 15, 2023
    9
    Jogo muito bom, muito engraçado, no pc esta excelente em otimização e gráficos.
  24. Lordback3
    Sep 5, 2023
    9
    Pensa em um jogo que me surpreendeu do inicio ao fim.Recomendo,vale a pena jogar e agradeço muito por ter dublagem em PT-BR,que faz total diferença nos jogos.
  25. Hermes97
    Feb 23, 2023
    9
    Finally a good Bioshock inspired FPS (it's more inspired by Biosock Infinite! Not the earlier more immersive sim games).
    A few things that I see as different from what the marketing said is that is not really open world, it just have some very open levels.
    The story and tone are really unique, the main plot doesn't re invent the wheel but is good and it's full of good character    Finally a good Bioshock inspired FPS (it's more inspired by Biosock Infinite! Not the earlier more immersive sim games).
    A few things that I see as different from what the marketing said is that is not really open world, it just have some very open levels.
    The story and tone are really unique, the main plot doesn't re invent the wheel but is good and it's full of good character everywhere.
    The fighting was good for me, still remembers me Dying Light but I get why some people don't get used to the mele.
    Last note something incredible this dev team did was invent a good looting system! AAA games should copy this! PLS more easy looting
    Props to the team that did this game it was a new studio but they really did a professional job    … Expand
  26. kezzyhko
    Jul 16, 2023
    9
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  27. FormulaIII
    Jul 3, 2023
    9
    Excelente jogo, consegue oferecer mais de qualquer projecto maior... recomendo, adorei a historia... graficamente entao, está uma maravilha
  28. SheikerSPb
    Feb 22, 2023
    9
    Замечательное игровое приключение с классной стилистикой и отличными механиками.
  29. DarkzTom
    Feb 26, 2023
    9
    Отличная игра.На воне других сингл игр,которые выходит последние 5 лет вообще пушка
  30. TenionFCSM
    Apr 1, 2023
    9
    Great game! It's very similar to Bioshock and that's great! We really missed such games over the past 10 years!
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Metascore
76

Generally favorable reviews - based on 39 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 26 out of 39
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 39
  3. Negative: 1 out of 39
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Jan 23, 2024
    80
    The first hours are spent in laboratory corridors, but eventually the game opens up wide and actually mirrors another game with the numbers 451 in its DNA, which is the closest to it - the modern Prey. It's also the one that best shows what the game does masterfully, and where it stumbles on its ambitions. [Issue#326]
  2. Game World Navigator Magazine
    May 4, 2023
    87
    Great level design, dangerous enemies, good gunplay and intriguing story come together to deliver an unforgettable game. [page 38]
  3. GameOver.gr
    Mar 19, 2023
    70
    For a first try from a studio without any previous games, Atomic Heart is certainly an achievement albeit rough around (some) edges. Its aesthetic and mixture of well crafted action, puzzles and exploration is dragged down a bit by an abysmal open-world design (which thankfully doesn’t last long) and a rather predictable story. Nevertheless, the overall experience created the feeling that Mundfish is a studio that we should keep our eyes on in the future.
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