Atomic Heart

Atomic Heart

Developers
	Mundfish
Publishers
	Focus Entertainment
CIS	VK Play
Asia	4Divinity
Engines
	Unreal Engine 4
Release dates
Windows	February 20, 2023
Reception
Metacritic	77
OpenCritic	74
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase, DLC
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	First-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, Open world, FPS
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Eastern Europe, Sci-fi

Atomic Heart is a singleplayer first-person action, open world and FPS game.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Publisher website		CIS version.
GamersGate
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store
Microsoft Store		Included with Xbox Game Pass for PC.
Steam

All versions require Denuvo Anti-Tamper DRM.

Version differences

Standard Edition includes the base game, Swede skinn and Electro skin.

Gold Edition includes everything from the Standard Edition plus Glove skin and four post-launch story DLC.

Premium Edition includes everything from the Gold Edition plus AK skin, Zvezdochka skin and a digital artbook.

Monetization

Type	Notes
DLC	Skins and post-launch story DLC.
One-time game purchase	The game requires an upfront purchase to access.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Replace file
Create an empty text file and name it Launch_FHD_60FPS_PC_Steam.mp4. Put the created file into <path-to-game>\AtomicHeart\Content\Movies, overwrite when asked to.

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Labor & Science Weapon Skin pack	Contains Swede weapon skin and Electro weapon skin. Free for pre-orders.
Midas Glove skin	Cosmetic. Included with the Gold Edition and Premium Edition
Golden Age Weaspon Skin Pack	Contains golden skins for AK and Zvezdochka Axe Included with the Premium Edition.
04 DLC	4 pieces of upcoming post-launch story DLC. Included with the Gold Edition and Premium Edition.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\AtomicHeart\Saved\Config
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/668580/pfx/

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\AtomicHeart\Saved\SaveGames
Microsoft Store	%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\FocusHomeInteractiveSA.579645D26CFD_4hny5m903y3g0\SystemAppData\wgs\<user-id>\
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/668580/pfx/

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud
Xbox Cloud

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		Flawless Widescreen plugin exists to increase FOV, fix culling and aspect ratio.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		Coming at a later date Flawless Widescreen plugin exists to increase FOV, fix culling and aspect ratio.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Labeled as Texture Anisotropy. Disabled, 2x, 4x and 8x options available in-game. No 16x anisotripic filtering can be set in-game.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		TAA with Disabled, Medium and High presets available..
High-fidelity upscaling		DLSS 3.1, FSR 1.0
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Frame rate cap options of 30, 60, 90, 120, 144, 165, 240 and 300 available. No way in-game to fully unlock the frame-rate. Some distant animations play back at a noticable lower frame-rate.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Ray tracing (RT)		Game will support ray-traced direct illumination in a post-launch update.

The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration		The game does not have mouse acceleration at all despite erroneous reports.
Mouse sensitivity		Separate sliders available for X-axis and Y-axis as well as overall Mouse Sensitivity.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion		Inverted Mouse toggle available.
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity		Separate sliders available for X-axis and Y-axis as well as overall Controller Sensitivity.
Controller Y-axis inversion		Controller Inversion option available.

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers

PlayStation controllers		DualSense adaptive triggers are supported.

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Separate volume sliders available for Master, Music, Dialogue, FX, Environmental Audio FX, Radio and Interface FX.
Surround sound
Subtitles		On/Off toggle separately for Art Subtitles (for text, posters etc.) and general Subtitles (for speech).
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio		Streamer Mode option is available, however audio is still present that triggers copyright claims.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
French
German
Italian
Japanese				Japanese audio is scheduled to be implemented on April 13, 2023.
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Polish
Korean
Ukrainian

Issues unresolved

Downsampling / DSR resolutions not applied

The game allows picking resolutions enabled via DSR, but only actually applies up to the desktop resolution, in both windowed fullscreen & exclusive modes.

This can be worked around by changing the desktop resolution to the DSR resolution before launching, after that DSR options should apply properly in-game, though desktop resolution will need to be changed each time you want to launch it.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	12

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Physics	PhysX, APEX	PhysX v3.4.0.0, APEX v1.4.0.0
Audio	XAudio, Wwise	XAudio v2.9

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10 (20H1)
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i5-2500 AMD Ryzen 3 1200	Intel Core i7-7700K AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
System memory (RAM)	8 GB	16 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	90 GB	90 GB (SSD)
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 AMD Radeon R9 380 4 GB of VRAM DirectX 12 compatible	Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 8 GB of VRAM

A 64-bit operating system is required.

The minimum requirements are for 1080p, 30 FPS at low settings. The recommended system requirements are for 1080p, 60 FPS at ultra settings. Additional system requirements are also available.