Atomfall

A fantastic game that can appeal to anyone BUT IT IS NOT FALLOUT - if you want Fallout this isn't it. Virtually every aspect of the game can be personalised to how you want to play through the extensive settings list - you can tone down the investigative/puzzle elements to be very simple so you concentrate on combat or make combat simple so you can turn it into a more puzzle focussed game. This is great for when I'm felling intellectual or when I just want to blast things. However, you are never really an overpowered character who can do everything due to the built in limits on ammo so even a combat focussed playthrough is challenging. Very much refreshing to have a British themed game that reflects the fact that we all dress as morris dancers and carry cricket bats around all the time.

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Interesting spin on the "radioactive dystopia" genre. Glad you can customize almost every aspect of difficulty, which is nice. Started tough but fair and really felt like you progressed as you got better weapons, recipes etc and enemies didn't outpace you. Progression was not really meaningful and side quests didn't really have meaningful rewards, but the obvious ability to approach the main quest basically 4 different ways added to the mystery. Not a long game (in game counter for me was under 6.5 hrs) but a little too long to want to replay the entire thing just to see a different ending. You can do the various "main" quest paths almost until they finish, which I did, so replaying means repeating A TON unless you totally ignored one or the other faction entirely. Still worth it for sale and a cool game with good combat and exploration.

The game is very pretty and stylish, exploration is interesting, the universe is intriguing, combat could be a bit more sophisticated but it does the job. Can drink tea. On the downside, endings are very dissappointing, zero payoff, there are several of them, yet they are almost identical. Doesn't push the game into the "do not recommend" for me, but it did make the final impression considerably worse. Knowing that DLCs don't fix this ensured that I won't buy them.

I got the base game at 60% off. I don't think the game is worth its full price, but I appreciate it for being an earnest attempt at being a S.T.A.L.K.E.R.-lite that's reminiscent of the vibes+aesthetics that your Bethesda Fallouts / Bioshocks do (minus the goofiness of those two titles). Framing the game in this way allows me to underline that this game is not at all meant to replace the giants of this genre- it's a fun little one-shot "what-if". While the story isn't worth writing home about, it keeps you intrigued enough to keep you going. I consider the gameplay as just a means to get through the "mystery", which is to say that its gameplay is serviceable at best. The stealth isn't great, enemy AI gets stuck with their pathing, harder difficulties are barely challenging and simply require you to use your head (as opposed to sitting back and turning your brain off like in Fallout…