Atomic Heart has frequently been compared to the Fallout series. There’s a good reason for that: just as the Fallout series satirizes the cavalier attitude mid-century Americans had towards radiation and atomic power, Atomic Heart’s visuals, settings, and unsettling enemies draw heavily from the bombastic and sometimes horrifying scientific endeavors that took place in research labs and “science cities” on the other side of the Iron Curtain.

Atomic Heart is an adventure first-person shooter, events of which unfold in an alternative universe, during the high noon of the Soviet Union. The main character of the game is a special agent, who was sent to a highly secret object by the Soviet government after it went radio silent.