Atomfall

More like STALKER than Fallout. There is a learning curve and enemies are challenging on the recommended Survivor mode. You can't just run in guns blazing like any FPS. Mostly because ammo is scarce and beginner combat damage is weak. I can tell this will be a slow burn fun game once I am acclimated to how things work. The quests (leads) can be overwhelming. Inventory space is limited (even with stash/pneumatic tube). Only quibble is that jumping and mounting obstacles isn't that great. The player character is not a parkour champion like in Dying Light. Good times so far though.

The game has great world design in terms of visuals and the leads system would be a lot more interesting if there were more NPCs you could talk to and if the world wasn't so excessively hostile. Having enemies just be hostile makes the world feel a lot more dead in a not fun way. Moreover, having everyone be a cheeky snarky person isn't fun either. Most of the NPCs feel like they are out of a marvel movie at times. I understand the desire to set up a more dire setting but factions are hostile to the point that they don't feel human or alive and more like muppets. There are no non-lethal ways to deal with the enemies either, i don't have a knock out method, my dude instantly snaps necks of people like a psychopath which for a game that should feel like an immersive sim, the variety of tools at hand to deal with scenarios is excruiatingly limiting in the sense that i can't distract enemies early on either, they won't see me while im right in front of their peripheral vision but in some cases enemies will 360 no scope spot you through 10 miles away. The Red Strain was the worst of it all because of the swarm enemies. I don't know who recommended that but please don't do this again. its super boring and annoying. I have enough bandages to open a hospital and yes im playing on survivalist. Having to stand still to swat away annoying wasp like enemies that fly up to you and instantly zap you is not fun. its a minor annoyance. there is no tatical manuevering or thoughts involved in dealing with them. The feral enemies are equally annoying and just unrewarding to fight. Their design is also uninspired considering the fact you have such interesting mushroom growths all over the place and they just look like basic naked people. The leads system would have been less flawed if there were at least enough npcs riddled throughout the world that would be interesting enough that you could care about what's going on and it could feel like a proper mystery. Most of the leads are just exchanges between military personel which I understand that why that's the case but once again it removes the human element from the disaster. Turning the military into such cartoonishly evil in the prison area also didn't help with the immersion because then I just shut my brain off and gunned every guard down. They aren't a prescence who are trying to survive a disaster and keep something horrid at bay, they are torturing people for the love of the game. "Calling the food gruel is a punishable offence" like i get what you are trying to say but it's not really deep or interesting. military dictatorship bad, fascism bad, no duh. The outlaws don't make any sense either and are just bodies to pile onto my genocide pile. The fact that enemies just respawn when you reenter an area also makes it so that all the effort you put into clearing an area feels pointless. If you wanted to sell the loneliness of the place not having them just respawn would be nice. All in all, the art direction for the environment and world is great but the game is deeply hollow when it comes to the human aspects and the world feels extremely dead in the wrong way. Dying lonely worlds can be fun to explore but this is a hollow and shallow world not a dead and desolate one. Its always more interesting to have factions that are interesting vs cartoonishly evil mustache twirling shallow bs

What a wonderful game. I love the fact that it has the option to let you solve the puzzles by yourself with no handholding. Fun story and amazing atmosphere. I love it so much im going to get the other rebellion games.

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played on steamdeck through a 50inch TV At last a game with a British element i love the Ferret Mk5 with floatation screen, the 37 pattern webbing, the road signs and theres even our home cottage in there ! the Joy

I am sorry. I kinda enjoyed this game, but the truth is, it feels half-baked. Something is there, definitelly, but I can't say I enjoyed it. If there were not other open-world games to compare to, this would be quite a decent game, actually. But I just could not get rid of the feeling that someone saw Fallout and thought putting it to British background would work. I couldn't relate to the main protagoinst. The NPCs were terribly flat. At the end, when faced with the decision who to side with, I had to make my decision based on who actually bothered me the least. You can try this game, like others say, don't buy at full price. The price I would buy it at, now, knowing what I am going for, would be 14.99 or less. Probably less.

Amazing game so far. In a nutshell, -The story line will keep you in your seat for hours and make you lose sleep. -Great visuals and decent graphics. -Fun melee and gunplay, combat is decent and fun but they give you many options to stealth & avoid too. -Only negative I've found is ammo is semi scarce and you can't carry a lot, very limited and non upgradable bag space and ammo carry capacity. Although this does add an appealing difficulty in my opinion, making you pick and choose who and how you approach, who you're going to melee or fire upon, etc. Comparable game: Fallout, FarCry, Last of Us, with a Stranger Things and Dr. Who vibe. 8.5/10 Its pretty sick so far, just buy it.

Atomfall hat mich positiv überrascht. Die Atmosphäre ist fantastisch und die Spielwelt lädt zum Erkunden ein. Überall gibt es kleine Geschichten und Geheimnisse zu entdecken. Die Mischung aus Survival, Kämpfen und Entscheidungen hält das Spiel spannend, ohne überladen zu wirken. Auch der Soundtrack und die Kulisse tragen enorm zur dichten Stimmung bei. Wer ein atmosphärisches Abenteuer mit Erkundung und einer interessanten Geschichte sucht, sollte Atomfall unbedingt ausprobieren. Klare Kaufempfehlung! 👍