Atomine
Atomine is a twin stick procedural shooter rogue-lite set in a virtual world with minimalist design, where the player recounts on the screen the real events of Stuxnet, the first weapon ever created in the…
Atomine is an arcade developed by Broken Arms Games, released 4 May 2017 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Atomine is
Atomine is an arcade game developed by Broken Arms Games and released in 2017. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In 2011, Sergey Ulasen, discovered STUXNET, a malicious computer worm, initially spreaded via Microsoft Windows, and targeted Siemens industrial control systems, defined as a sleeping threat, waiting for a trigger to start its activation. STUXNET is the first discovered malware that spies on and subverts industrial systems, and the first to include a programmable logic controller (PLC) rootkit. The worm has been founded infecting especially nuclear power plants and oil drilling systems. ATOMINE, like STUXNET, is a virus who needs to get stronger in order to reach and eventually infect and compile itself into the target source code. The electronic voice in the background and many element on…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Atomine holds a critic score of 66 out of 100. That places it above 29% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 5 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Atomine launched on 4 May 2017, within three weeks of Prey, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and What Remains of Edith Finch. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Prey, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, What Remains of Edith Finch.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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