Officially, the studio is based in Cyprus and has a team made up of developers from 10 different countries, but despite insistences that it’s a ‘pro-peace organisation’ they’ve made no attempt to change the release date even slightly. It’s also the release date of Atomic Heart, a new first person shooter that’s heavily influenced by Bioshock and set in an alternative universe where the Soviet Union prospered and became a technological powerhouse.ĭeveloper Mundfish has for months been fielding accusations of secretly being a Russian studio and has been forced to deny it was using its website to harvest data for the Russian government. The idea of exploring a dystopian world run by an obsessed ideologue is not the typical set-up for an action video game and in Atomic Heart the concept is that the Soviet Union unlocked the. It’s been over a decade since the last Bioshock but perhaps this homage set in an alternative version of Soviet Russia can make up for it?įebruary 21 is the day Vladmir Putin signing a decree that recognised the independence of multiple regions in eastern Ukraine, an act which only two days later led to the Russian invasion of the country.

Atomic Heart – Sergei is 2023’s worst protagonist (pic: Focus Entertainment) Atomic Heart fans have already been making comparisons between this experience and masterclass franchises such as BioShock and Far Cry, and it is no surprise as to why.

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