Atomic Heart

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

The game received several patches which added field of view option, HUD size settings, subtitle size settings, improved stability, improved performance, improved shadows, achievement unlocking fixes, fixed some crashes and fixed many other issues.^[1]^[2]^[3]

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.^[4]
One-time game purchase	The game requires an upfront purchase to access.
Subscription gaming service	Available via Xbox Game Pass for PC.

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.
Annihilation Instinct	Story DLC, released August 2, 2023.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Remove, rename or move the intro video files^[5]^[6]
Go to `<path-to-game>\AtomicHeart\Content\Movies`. Remove, rename or move `Launch_FHD_60FPS_PC_Steam.mp4`, `LaunchVideo_WIndows_4k_60FPS.mp4` and `LaunchVideo_WIndows_Low_30FPS.mp4`.

Download the No Startup Videos - pak version mod and put it into `<path-to-game>\AtomicHeart\Content\Paks`
Disables the intro videos instead of removing, renaming, moving or replacing them.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\AtomicHeart\Saved\Config
Microsoft Store
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/668580/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

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)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/668580/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud		Saves and all settings.
Xbox Cloud

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		Flawless Widescreen plugin exists to fix culling and aspect ratio.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		Added in 1.3.4.0^[2] or use Flawless Widescreen.
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 2.2 ^[7]DLSS Frame Generation is supported.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		On/Off toggle. On some systems, this option could be greyed out and thus cannot be turned on. Use AMD/Nvidia Control Panel to force Vsync externally instead.^[8]
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Frame rate cap options of 30, 60, 90, 120, 144, 165, 240 and 300 available. An extra 500 FPS cap option was added through update 1.3.0 on February 25, 2023.^[1] 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)		^[9]
Ray tracing (RT)		Game will support ray-traced direct illumination in a post-launch update.^[10]

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
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		Will be added through an upcoming update.^[2]
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
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

DualShock 4 controllers		DualSense haptic feedback and adaptive triggers are not supported on PC.^[9]^[11]

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M		Mouse movements and controller inputs are mixed correctly.^[12]^[13]

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		Menu and CHAR-les are stereo. The rest of sound is 7.0.
Subtitles		On/Off toggle separately for Art Subtitles (for text, posters etc.) and general Subtitles (for speech). Subtitle size option was added post-launch through patch 1.4.0.0 on April 5, 2023.^[3]^[1]^[14]
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio		Streamer Mode option is available, however audio is still present that triggers copyright claims.^[15]

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Ukrainian				Only Steam version.

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.^[16]

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.

Notes

↑ Unreal Engine 4 engine build: 4.27.2.0
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/668580/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (668580) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 PATCHES 1.3.3.0 / 1.3.3.1 – LIST OF CHANGES - last accessed on 2023-02-27
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 PATCHES 1.3.4.0 - 1.3.5.0 – LIST OF CHANGES - Steam - last accessed on 2023-03-10
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 PATCH 1.4.0.0 — LIST OF CHANGES - Steam - last accessed on 2023-04-05
↑ Atomic Heart DLC Will Be Entirely Single-Player, Story-Focused - GameRant - last accessed on 2023-01-27
↑ Verified by User:Mrtnptrs on 2023-02-26
Tested removing the 3 videos from the Steam version and the game booted straight to menu.
↑ Verified by User:Cjmaxik on 2023-02-26
Tested with GamePass version 1.3.3.0.
↑ Verified by User:Mrtnptrs on 2023-02-21
Even though the developers mentioned that the game would include FSR 2, it clearly only includes FSR 1 as it has the typical FSR 1 artifact of spatial upscaling, no temporal artifacts. Other users were also suggesting this. Game also includes DLSS 3.1.1 Super Resolution DLL.
↑ Verified by User:Sxp2high on 2023-02-23
Tested on Windows 11 with the Game Pass version on Nvidia hardware with no special settings applied in the Nvidia Control Panel.
↑ ^9.0 ^9.1 Atomic Heart Review in Progress – Polished Soviet BioShock - last accessed on 2023-02-20
↑ Atomic Heart Final Q&A Part II – Mundfish ‘Impressed’ by DLSS 3; FSR 2 Confirmed; Old Consoles Will Be Fine - last accessed on 2023-01-05
↑ Atomic Heart Bonus Q&A – Exclusive Full PC Specs Reveal & Shader Comp Info; Devs Talk Final Build Improvements - last accessed on 2023-02-09
↑ Steam curator review by Gamepad Controls QA - last accessed on 2023-02-24
"⫸Gyro - Mixed Input, Mouse Smoothing"
↑ r/SteamDeck comment in Atomic Heart Megathread (Steam/PC) - last accessed on 2023-02-24
"Stick + gyro mouse works very well"
↑ @Mundfish #AtomicHeart - 10:09 AM · Feb 22, 2023 - Twitter - last accessed on 2023-02-22
↑ Steam Community - Atomic Heart - Streamer Mode doesn't work - last accessed on 2023-02-22
↑ Verified by User:Infogram1 on 2023-02-21
Using DLSS with dev overlay shows the resolution actually being rendered by the game, selecting any DSR resolution always kept it at desktop res, despite windowed mode setting & any DPI changes applied to EXE.

[1] Unreal Engine 4 engine build: 4.27.2.0

[Proton_path_note-8] 2.0 ^2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/668580/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (668580) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[1.3.3changelog-2] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 PATCHES 1.3.3.0 / 1.3.3.1 – LIST OF CHANGES - last accessed on 2023-02-27

[1.3.4.0_changelog-3] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 PATCHES 1.3.4.0 - 1.3.5.0 – LIST OF CHANGES - Steam - last accessed on 2023-03-10

[1.4.0.0-4] 3.0 ^3.1 PATCH 1.4.0.0 — LIST OF CHANGES - Steam - last accessed on 2023-04-05

[5] Atomic Heart DLC Will Be Entirely Single-Player, Story-Focused - GameRant - last accessed on 2023-01-27

[6] Verified by User:Mrtnptrs on 2023-02-26
Tested removing the 3 videos from the Steam version and the game booted straight to menu.

[7] Verified by User:Cjmaxik on 2023-02-26
Tested with GamePass version 1.3.3.0.

[9] Verified by User:Mrtnptrs on 2023-02-21
Even though the developers mentioned that the game would include FSR 2, it clearly only includes FSR 1 as it has the typical FSR 1 artifact of spatial upscaling, no temporal artifacts. Other users were also suggesting this. Game also includes DLSS 3.1.1 Super Resolution DLL.

[10] Verified by User:Sxp2high on 2023-02-23
Tested on Windows 11 with the Game Pass version on Nvidia hardware with no special settings applied in the Nvidia Control Panel.

[review-11] 9.0 ^9.1 Atomic Heart Review in Progress – Polished Soviet BioShock - last accessed on 2023-02-20

[12] Atomic Heart Final Q&A Part II – Mundfish ‘Impressed’ by DLSS 3; FSR 2 Confirmed; Old Consoles Will Be Fine - last accessed on 2023-01-05

[interview-13] Atomic Heart Bonus Q&A – Exclusive Full PC Specs Reveal & Shader Comp Info; Devs Talk Final Build Improvements - last accessed on 2023-02-09

[14] Steam curator review by Gamepad Controls QA - last accessed on 2023-02-24
"⫸Gyro - Mixed Input, Mouse Smoothing"

[15] r/SteamDeck comment in Atomic Heart Megathread (Steam/PC) - last accessed on 2023-02-24
"Stick + gyro mouse works very well"

[16] @Mundfish #AtomicHeart - 10:09 AM · Feb 22, 2023 - Twitter - last accessed on 2023-02-22

[17] Steam Community - Atomic Heart - Streamer Mode doesn't work - last accessed on 2023-02-22

[18] Verified by User:Infogram1 on 2023-02-21
Using DLSS with dev overlay shows the resolution actually being rendered by the game, selecting any DSR resolution always kept it at desktop res, despite windowed mode setting & any DPI changes applied to EXE.

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Developers

	Mundfish
Publishers
	Focus Entertainment
CIS	VK Play
Asia	4Divinity
Engines
	Unreal Engine 4^{[Note 1]}
Release dates
Windows	February 20, 2023
Reception
Metacritic	75
OpenCritic	74
IGDB	72
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase, DLC, Subscription gaming service
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	First-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, Open world, FPS
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Eastern Europe, Sci-fi