Atomic Heart: Release Date, Gameplay and Story!

Atomic Heart is an upcoming action role-playing video game developed and published by Russian studio Mundfish.

Here’s everything we know about Atomic Heart:

Release Date

The game is planned for release on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, and Xbox One with a release date set for some point in 2021.

Gameplay

Atomic Heart is a First-Person Shooter video game with action role-playing elements. The combat in the game consists of shooting and melee combat with modified weapons. There is a crafting system where the weapons can be pieced together from scrap that can be detached from robots or taken from household appliances. Ammo in the game is scarce and stealth is a valid option. Quick-time events are also a feature in the game.

The game might consist of a series of connected levels spread out across a large map, Metro Exodus-style. It has a railway system to whisk you between different locations.

Story

A fresh Steam update also describes Atomic Heart’s story, which explores the ‘what-ifs’ of an alternative reality where the Soviet Union has access to the fruits of the “technical revolution” including robots, the internet, and holograms. You play as a KGB agent known as P-3 looking into a malfunction in the robot control system, which, per an earlier synopsis, is causing the robots to attack humans.

The Steam description also promises “huge open-world regions full of lush Soviet nature and less spacious territories of the Facility complexes with its secret underground and above-ground labs, bunkers and robotic logistics systems.”