Developer Mundfish has shared ten minutes of its upcoming, wonderfully atmospheric Soviet-era shooter Atomic Heart, which is due to release on Xbox One, PS4, and PC at some currently unspecified future point.

Atomic Heart first unfurled early last year, making its debut in one hell of an arresting trailer. It offered just under two-minutes of concentrated weirdness, awash in Soviet-era ambience.

Since then, a few additional glimpses of Atomic Heart have been seen here and there, with Mundfish most recently showing off a small slice of its alternate-history action RPG during an nVidia RTX showcase. Now, however, the developer has offered the most significant look at the game yet, with ten-minutes of gameplay footage.

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Atomic Heart's most recent trailer has created quite the buzz in Video Game Land. Visually the game looks phenomenal, but the psychedelic scenes that unfold have left viewers with a lot of questions. Suitably intrigued myself, I decided to scour the internet to find out as much about the story and gameplay of Atomic Heart as possible.

Atomic Heart is an adventure first-person shooter (think along the lines of BioShock) set in an alternate universe version of the Soviet Union. It's built in Unreal Engine 4 by a little-known development studio named Mundfish, which is based in a loft office in central Moscow. Only one photo of the development team exists on social media and it shows a couple of young designers planning out the game's story using a paper map and Post-it notes.

Mundfish's first social media post for Atomic Heart was pushed out on 23rd March 2017, showing us the studio has been working on the game for at least 14 months.

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