![]() This system has its advantages, but it doesn't really work that well because it forces you into rigid builds. This creates a situation where you're able to front-load your character with useful abilities, but later on you don't get a lot of them. The more abilities you get, the more points (you get 2 per level) the next one will cost you. The tree branches in eight different directions and each of its paths represents some particular theme, like automatic weapons, martial arts, or exploration and survival. In ATOM RPG that whole system was drastically overhauled and instead of getting level and attribute-gated perks every few levels, you have an ability tree. The similarities end when we get to perks. Some things got changed, others rearranged and all the traits are new, but it's all fairly close. ![]() Seven attributes, a bunch of skills that go up to around 200, and up to two unique traits that provide both a bonus and a penalty. ![]() Immediately during character creation you'll know you're playing Fallout. Soviet Fallout While most spiritual successors wear their inspirations on their sleeves, ATOM RPG completely drapes itself in them without a slightest bit of shame. With ATOM RPG getting its final content update back in May of 2019, I decided to see for myself whether it was a worthy spiritual successor or a low-grade clone. It looks and plays a great deal like the early entries in the Fallout series, and seeing how that series is now a first-person shooter and on some occasions an online survival game, getting a proper new isometric “Fallout” is not something to be overlooked. ATOM RPG is subtitled as “A Post-apocalyptic Indie Game,” and that's exactly what you'll be getting if you decide to purchase it. Introduction Have you ever wondered, while playing Fallout, how a nuclear conflict of such scale could have affected the other side? Well the developers at the very aptly named AtomTeam clearly did, and after a successful Kickstarter campaign followed by an Early Access phase, they have produced ATOM RPG - an isometric role-playing game that takes place in the Soviet Wasteland.
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