ATOM RPG: Trudograd - Review @ Mortismal Gaming

Prepare for a lot of reading if you wanna play it lol, i liked this more than the main game; i thought i found most of the content but after finishing it(32.5 hrs on record) and checking the achievements, i was surprised on how much i missed despite going everywhere and talking with eeryone.
 
Prepare for a lot of reading if you wanna play it lol, i liked this more than the main game; i thought i found most of the content but after finishing it(32.5 hrs on record) and checking the achievements, i was surprised on how much i missed despite going everywhere and talking with eeryone.

Well, 32.5 hours isn't a whole lot for this kind of game, so I'm glad there's a bit more content than that.

How was the writing compared to the first game? Are there still a lot of jokes and references that only Russians are likely to understand?
 
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The references are Russian-centric, sure, but I don't think they're that obscure if you know some 20th century history.
 
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The references are Russian-centric, sure, but I don't think they're that obscure if you know some 20th century history.
Agreed, I thought I understood the vast majority of it, but maybe some of it went over my head and I didn't even know. But I guess if you weren't alive and paying attention in the 1980s (or earlier), and also don't know anything about Cold War era history, you'd be kind of lost.
 
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There were very few references in the base game that I didn't get, the humour was pretty evident and added a lot of value to the game. Those classic nods will have much to do with why I replay this game in the future, as well as pick up this additional content at some point. These designers get it.
 
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I'll sadly admit I never finished both games. Nothing great in my defense I just moved on to other games ever time I replay them. I'm still waiting on that rumored game that the developer claimed they would talk about months back but never did as well.
 
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I'll sadly admit I never finished both games. Nothing great in my defense I just moved on to other games ever time I replay them. I'm still waiting on that rumored game that the developer claimed they would talk about months back but never did as well.

I'm surprised, I thought it was among your favourite games.

Same. I'm not embarrassed if I don't finish games, not anymore. Some of them are very long, or sometimes there's a new one which is really exciting and I jump ship. After all, the purpose is to have fun, it's not a duty.

But yeah, the spent money tends to make us feel like we need to play them through. There'll always be a drought period or a change of mood to come back to them. :)
 
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It is my favorite game but I'll play it halfway through and just stop. Seems to be a habit in the last two years that I rarely finish a single game. I play CK2, HOI 4, and NWN a lot.

Mostly because of all the mods.
 
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Maybe you like it so much that you don't want to see the end? ;)

And then there's the PoE games... But I've not given up on ATOM or PoE2 just yet. The thing is, the plots and quests have faded from memory when resuming a game after so long, so there's a kind of "motivation barrier" to overcome first.

I'm not even how far I am in ATOM, Galaxy says 33 hours of gameplay so that must be about half way.

A guy took me on his ship from Krasnoznamenny and I ended up in a badly irradiated area, but too early apparently, I have little protection against that, so I backtracked to other areas like the circus. So it feels like there's still enough exploring to do.
 
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