Atomic Heart
Atomic Heart is an adventure first-person shooter, events of which unfolds in an alternate universe during the high noon of the Soviet Union. The principal character of the game is a special agent P-3, who…
Atomic Heart is an adventure developed by Mundfish, released 21 February 2023 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It currently starts at $11.99 at Steam. The main story takes about 21.7 hrs to finish.
What Atomic Heart is
Atomic Heart is an adventure game developed by Mundfish and released in 2023. It was published by Focus Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Set in an alternate version of the 1950s, Atomic Heart takes place in the Soviet Union in which robotics and other technologies have gone rogue. These bioengineering experiments have taken over a manufacturing facility and are running rampant. You play as KGB special age P-3 who is sent to this facility to investigate it after it had fallen silent.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, mystery, open world and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 82 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Atomic Universe series
Atomic Heart is the first of 3 entries we hold in the Atomic Universe series. The next entry was Atomic Heart: Midas Glove Skin in 2023.
How it was received
Atomic Heart holds a critic score of 72 out of 100. That places it above 42% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2023 averaged 76, so it scored 4 points below the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 70, across 233 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 21.7 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 36 hrs, roughly 1.7 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $11.99, that works out to about $0.55 per hour of the main story, or $0.33 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for AMD Ryzen 3 1200 or Intel Core i5-2500, 8 GB RAM and 4 GB VRAM, AMD Radeon R9 380 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 90GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $11.99 at Steam, 80% below its usual price. Storefront pricing varies enormously by country: India is the cheapest region we track at ₹2,699.00 (about $28.34), while United Kingdom pays £54.99 — 2.6 times more. In Pakistan it is priced at Rs 45 on Steam, which is about $44.99.
What it launched against
Atomic Heart launched on 21 February 2023, within three weeks of Hogwarts Legacy, Metroid Prime Remastered, Octopath Traveler II and Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Hogwarts Legacy, Metroid Prime Remastered, Octopath Traveler II, Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Atomic Heart yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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