Raw Fury has announced that it, alongside developer Birth Bath Games, will release Atomicrops on consoles and PC this year. A new trailer has been released to celebrate and it's well worth a watch.
Just like any other farming simulator, Atomicrops sees you owning your very own farm, ready to live out a peaceful life in the countryside, just like you would in other farming favourites like Stardew Valley. This is a little different, though, because your farm immediately gets turned into a post-apocalyptic wasteland with the surrounding countryside being vapourised in a nuclear blast. Oh.
The game has adopted a "Farm. Marry. Kill." slogan, which probably gives you a decent sense of what to expect, but here's a quick description and feature list from the game's website:
"Atomicrops is an action roguelite farming simulator. Armed with your hoe, a watering pail, and a fully automatic weapon, you must grow ultra-GMO crops to feed the local town… and make a hefty profit. Defend your land from the mutant pests and bandits that invade nightly to ravage your fields. Court and wed townsfolk to fight and farm by your side. Gather upgrades to increase yields, profit and power. Befriend the local wildlife to help with the chores."
Key Features
Farm. Grow mutant crops and reap a bountiful harvest to sustain humanity… and make a huge profit.
Marry. Woo and marry a kindred spirit from the local town to fight and farm alongside you.
Kill. Fight bizarre post-nuclear pests starving for a piece of your crops at night. Hunt and forage in dangerous surrounding biomes for seeds and loot during the day. Turn your enemies into fertilizer to increase your crops quality.
Upgrade. Explore the far reaches of the biomes to find useful relics of farms long past. Discover rusty farm equipment, antique gardening tools, and tomes of how-to garden guides to increase your farming power. Spend your money in town to upgrade your gun and abilities. Permanently upgrade your farm house for bonuses that persist across playthroughs.
Befriend. Recruit an entourage of pig pals, chicken chums and cow colleagues to automate farming tasks. Cultivating atomicrops is a tough job, you’ll need all the help you can get.
The trailer doesn't show a whole lot of gameplay (we're treated to a great little animated scene for the most part), but we're intrigued by its premise nonetheless. Assuming "consoles" includes Switch - Raw Fury has regularly published titles on Switch ever since it launched so it's a pretty safe bet - this one could well be one to watch out for.
What do you think? Will you be keeping tabs on Atomicrops? Let us know your first impressions in the comments.
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@JTTSantos Not a shame if you love old school games.
Pretty fun. Very nice trailer.
@JTTSantos I thought the same thing. I was all-in until I saw the graphics. So sick of seeing pixel art games!
The trailer... Frederator Studios' animation style puts me in tears every time
As silly a concept as this game is, I can see me playing it. It actually sounds like fun.
@Mykillvee It is a way to keep development costs down a lot of times, if you want a 3D game you are looking at a much heftier price tag and way more development time.
@EasyDaRon Agreed. Plus this game looks like it has a ton of personality that may not be as easily achieved (particularly in terms of funding) with 3D.
I dont mind pixel-art but this is too pixelated .
oh look, more pixel-art... welcome to 2019.
This trend needs to die.
@Jokerwolf it doesn't have to be 3D to look gorgeous. Hand drawn cel-shaded art with painted backgrounds would have been the way to go. They already made the trailer that way! Why not the game? This is why I hate trailers like this, where the actual game play doesn't even imitate the visual style of the trailer.
Noooooooo throw it away throw it away.
"...you must grow ultra-GMO crops to feed the local town..." Lost me right here. I cannot endorse GMO crops to be fed to anyone living or digital. This game should be banned!
Looks fun but stressful
This looks so much more fun that Stardew
umm no! Give us better graphics! Snes 2D games still holds up above this 2D ugly graphics. They really went easy mode when it comes to 2D gaming today....
I've seen the trailer 5 times, love it
@Jokerwolf
Well pixelated games are good and all
But I'm kinda done with them... For now.(similar to the hyper-realistic looking games )
I'm on the hand drawn, 2d animated games (cup head, hollow Knight, monster kid, etc)
I also like smooth, basic 3d and colorful (fortnite, most Nintendo games, little nightmare)
This looks amazing. Much more personality than Stardew Valley.
Trailer is off putting and lost me until I saw the game play. Looks fun and I much prefer nice pixel art to cheap cell phone game 3d graphics.
Raw Fury is publishing this? And paid Guillaume Singlin to draw promotion art?
A'ight, hope the best for all of them!
SOLD, TO THE BEARDED MAN IN THE BIKINI.
@Mykillvee 99.9% of trailers or cinematics are not in-game or representative of the gameplay anyhow.
wow! Didnt see this game coming. Bought stardew valley but couldnt play for more than two in-game seasons. This game looks much more interesting
This looks right up my alley lol.
@Ttimer5 That is the one comment on animation style I can understand. (Plus I love Cuphead and Hollow Knight!)
Is anyone else getting a Zombies ate my neighbors feel to this game? It looks like great fun.
@JTTSantos >Stardew Valley is also pixel art but gets all the love.
I don't get the hate for all this.
Looks amazing! That animated intro was brilliant, never seen anything by that animator before but I’m off to check them out right now.
I never got into Stardew but this looks more my kind of thing.
The trailer aesthetic reminds me a lot of Adventure Time and Bravest Heroes, but, yes, with a touch of the Vault Boy SPECIAL videos from Fallout 4
As far as the apparent gameplay: I’m a huge fan of Harvest Moon and twin stick shooters, so this looks freakin amazing to me.
I just hope it’s not taking too much from tower defense games (which got old a long time ago)
@Agramonte Maybe (bad) opinions passing themselves off as fact should kick the bucket. Lots of people appreciate pixel art.
The more I think about it, I really like the idea of throwing a survival aspect into a farming sim. But I would prefer it to be more of a fantasy/middle ages thing like a Fire Emblem style setting.
Big cartoony mutants and bullet hell roguelites... mixed with a farming sim? meh. Sounds like having Pancakes and Meatloaf. I might like both, but they don't mix well.
Not at all what I thought it was going to be. The trailer was pleasantly surprising
WHERE ARE THEIR NOSES?...PEOPLE EVEN ANIMATED ONES ARE SUPPOSED TO HAVE NOSES!!!!!
The animation started off pretty generic, but when the gameplay started I was pretty darn impressed! And was it just me, or did the sound effects almost sound like Pikmin in the gameplay portion ok f the trailer??
@Antraxx777 I actually really like your description of this game!!
@EasyDaRon How about a neat 2-D hand drawn style, like Don't Starve or Hollow Knight? A lot of these pixelart games end up looking very muddy and unclear.
Mixing a farming sim with post-apocalypse is a neat idea, but I don't know if this game has the right way of executing it.
@Antraxx777 And more people do not... another "Fact"
@EasyDaRon I would take generic 3D art over any other if it was clearer. One of my beefs with Vlambeer is that their insistence on very blocky pixel art makes the sprites look like muddy splotches of colour rather than whatever they are supposed to represent, making it more difficult to tell what is what. It may be an issue in this game too.
Looks pretty cool.
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