The music is suitably haunting and eerie when it needs to be and the environmental sounds are crisp. The cutscenes look better, but these make extensive use of actual (historical) video footage so it’s unfair to compare these to the in-game graphics.īoasting a great atmospheric soundtrack as well as excellent voice acting in the newscast style cutscenes, Atom RPG offers an impressive soundscape. 3D models are quite basic and textures are somewhat muddy, but we expect that the visuals were toned down for the mobile version in order to improve performance. Of course, given the post-apocalyptic setting, we didn’t expect the game to pop with bright colors, but after a while, things start to look very same-y. What started out as a rescue mission quickly becomes a fight for survival.Ītom RPG’s world is a drab wasteland painted in shades of brown and grey for the most part, so it’s not particularly appealing from a visual point of view.

They rob the protagonist blind, leaving him (or her) to fend for themselves in the wastelands. Things quickly go awry after you start this mission, however, as the protagonist is waylaid by a gang of ruffians.

This squad disappeared while they were investigating the mysterious bunker #317.

The protagonist character starts out as a rookie agent of ATOM, a military organization.Īfter a short tutorial, which serves as a way to familiarize you with the controls, you receive the briefing for the mission you’ve been preparing for: you need to set out in search of a special squad of soldiers. Fast forward to 2005 and the world is an atomic wasteland, with survivors banding together, having gradually rebuilt society. The game offers an alternate timeline to real-world events, with nuclear bombs destroying both the Soviet Union and the Western Bloc in 1986. Upon starting the game, you are greeted with an introductory video that explains the events that shaped the world of Atom RPG. Porting PC games to mobile is always an ambitious undertaking so we were eager to find out how well Atom RPG survived the transition from desktop to pocket.

Roughly a year and a half since indie title Atom RPG arrived on Steam, the game gets a new lease on life as a portable title, both on mobile devices and on the Switch.

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