I’d solely have briefly dabbled in farm work whereas travelling, however Atomicrops certain ain’t how I keep in mind it. I keep in mind wellies and dust, yeah, however mutants? Shotguns? Seems suspect. With the turning of the seasons, Bird Bath Games’ farm-person-shooter is able to convey house the harvest, as Atomicrops prepares to go away early entry on May 28th.
Watering can? Check. Hazmat wellies? Check. Shotgun? Check-check. Let’s develop.
Atomicrops is Stardew Valley with a dose of nuclear hellfire. You, a humble farmer, are merely making an attempt to develop a wonderfully regular, certainly-not-irradiated crop of carrots and cabbages. But every night time, mutated critters descend to wreak havoc in your farm. Blasting warped bunnies and the like nets you sources to select up new weapons, develop new vegetation and rustly up some livestock to assist across the pasture. Play your crops proper, and also you may even discover love within the post-apocalypse.
Fending off the wasteland’s denizens requires some deft twin-stick run-and-gunning, with screen-filling storms of chunky bullets coming straight out of Nuclear Throne. It’s so Nuclear Thone, in reality, that it bears one hell of a resemblance to nade_’s Farm mod for Nuclear Throne Together from 2017 (obtainable on YellowAfterlife’s NTT mod list).
I don’t know if there’s any throughline between the 2. Just thought it a neat little reality value sharing this morning.
At least Atomicrops isn’t straight-up “borrowing” belongings from Stardew Valley. The issues modders get away with…
Premature Evaluator Steve discovered it a brutally unforgiving affair in his Atomicrops early access review, however positively felt an intoxicating attraction to watching a farm develop as you brutalise poisonous goo-men. Atomicrops, he reckons, “giddily subverts the farming genre, offering a skill-based, frenetic and challenging roguelike with a punishing permadeath that forces you to restart from scratch each time you cork it.”
Since organising store in early entry, Atomicrops has added extra baddies, extra mutant livestock, tractors and polygamy. Launch brings a harvest of latest content material, together with two new potential spouses, legally-distinct mushroom powerups, and brings the entire variety of problem tiers as much as 10.
Atomicrops will launch on the Epic Games Store on May 28th for £12/$15. Right now, although, it’s going for 10% off ’til April 23rd.
