Atomic Heart developer Mundfish and publisher Focus Entertainment have released a nine minute gameplay overview trailer that takes a deep dive into the game’s design, environment, mechanics, combat and overall gameplay.

 A first RPG action game, Atomic Heart takes place in an alternate USSR set in the 1950s where machines once designed to aid humanity have now instead turned against them, quickly causing the once.

Players control a man named P-3, an elite soldier robot scientist Dimitry Sechenov (who made the robots their AI neural network) enlists to figure out why the machines were reprogrammed to turn on humans and to restore the neural network to its previous peaceful state.

As such, apart from fighting robots players will learn about secret experiments and the growth of technology which has led to mutant creatures and abnormal machines.

As P-3, players will explore Facility 3826, a scientific testing ground spread throughout and beneath a sprawling mountain range. There, players will battle through a variety of enemies tailored to the specific scientific research being conducted at each of the facility’s five laboratories.

The player will have a companion along with them, an AI named CHAR-les, which lives inside a specialized glove P-3 wears on his left hand and physically manifests as a bundle of snakelike black wires. CHAR-les will provide story context, tidbits about NPC characters, and even allude to P-3’s own backstory.

But CHAR-les isn’t limited to exposition dumps. CHAR-les can hack robots and equipment as he can also blast enemies with ice and telekinetic powers in combat. 

With a variety of enemies to fight, players will have to change up and adapt their playstyles according to enemy specifications whether it be shooting enemies or slashing at them with improvised weapons or using your glove to use telekinesis, freezing or electrocuting them.

A highly dynamic game, Atomic Heart seems heavily influenced by BioShock, but according to Mundfish the game is tonally similar to “Doom, Wolfenstein, but way crazier.” But there seem to be other influences at play such as Dark Souls and Fallout. Atomic Heart releases on February 21, for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.