ATOMINE

RPG· Action Roguelike· Bullet Hell· Top-Down Shooter

Released May 2017

75% positive · 362 reviews

Done

All announced content has been released

High confidence

Done

All announced content has been released

High confidence

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Evaluation

ATOMINE launched on May 4, 2017 and received a burst of updates throughout its first year — multiple feature patches improving AI, performance, balancing, and adding new content like New Game+ mode. The most substantial overhaul was version 2.0.0 on September 8, 2017, which rebuilt the enemy system from the ground up. A final audio improvement patch (2.1.0) followed on October 27, 2017. After that, nearly two and a half years passed before the developer returned with version 2.1.1 on February 7, 2020 — a small controller and bug-fix patch. Notably, that post included the phrase "after a long time we are back to work a little on ATOMINE," and prominently redirected attention to the studio's new game, Hundred Days – Winemaking Simulator. There have been no developer communications about ATOMINE since February 7, 2020. There is no unreleased DLC, no announced future content, and no roadmap. The store description describes the game as a complete product with no mention of planned additions. The February 2020 patch appears to have been a final maintenance update before the studio fully moved on to other projects.

Evidence

Version 2.1.1 released with controller fixes and minor bug fixes. Developer notes 'after a long time we are back to work a little on ATOMINE' and redirects to their new game, Hundred Days – Winemaking Simulator. This is the last known communication from the developer about ATOMINE.

news post · Feb 7, 2020 source development ending

high

Version 2.0.0 released — a major overhaul rebuilding the enemy AI system from the ground up. Described as 'the most stable and fun version of the game.'

news post · Sep 8, 2017 source content shipped

high

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Details

Developer

Broken Arms Games

Publisher

Broken Arms Games

Achievements

Platform

Windows

Controller

full support

Steam Deck

Not rated

Players

Single-player

Action Roguelike Bullet Hell Top-Down Shooter Twin Stick Shooter Dungeon Crawler Roguelite Perma Death Difficult Survival Hacking Shooter Roguelike Action-Adventure Top-Down Procedural Generation

About this game

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 form of computer virus.

In every run the player has to clear the level area from all the enemies in order to unlock the portal to the next level. During the run every killed enemy will leave on the ground XPs, energy and/or weapon modules.

Fast and Fun
Atomine is fast. There are a lot of enemies and you have to kill all of them to complete the levels. But don't worry, you have infinite ammo and a (great) modular weapon system.

Weapon System
In Atomine the player can modify his weapon using special modules that can be find in the game. The modules have effect to specific parts of the weapons: type of bullet, number of bullets, rate of fire and other mutators.

Procedural Generated / Roguelite
The world of Atomine is composed by levels procedurally-generated. Every level has different type of enemy and environment.
The player has to complete all levels with only one life. If Atomine is destroyed, the game is over.

Counter Hacking
During a run, the system can detect the intrusion and modify the game, so player must act quickly!
If the player fails to hijack the counter hacking maneuver, the challenge will become really tough.

Boss Battle
There are not only "small" enemies. Atomine must also defeat big and powerful bosses.

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 screen, tell to the player what's the target of the run.