ATOM RPG: Trudograd – Last Year’s Summary and Plans for 2021

With a new year upon us, AtomTeam keeps working on the standalone Trudograd expansion for their post-apocalyptic ATOM RPG, and we get this Steam announcement that summarizes the game’s journey so far and shares the team’s plans for 2021. They include launching Trudograd, bringing the base game to the consoles, revealing some new secret project, and more.

Here’s more on that:

Greetings, dear friends!

Soon this year will end. And what a year it was. We had our share of grief, like most. Yet it was also quite productive for our games. Here, we would like to share with you a small summary of everything we managed to do, as well as give you a brief look into our team’s future goals.

The main achievement of 2020 for us is undoubtedly the launch of ATOM RPG: Trudograd into Early Access. The game, which was planned as a small add-on to the original quickly grew due to your fair criticism, ideas and recommendations.

Due to your feedback, a lot of new mechanics were added to the game, such as area of effect attacks in melee, new throwing weapon features, special armor abilities. We made new animations, widened the initially planned locations, made new side quests, improved on the game’s graphics and soundscape.

Of course these new features also extended Trudograd’s estimated time of arrival, since it is now a much more serious project than planned. But we are entirely sure the wait will be worth it.

Apart from that, in 2020 we continued improving our first game ATOM RPG. Listening to your wishes, we ported it to a wide variety of platforms like iOS, Android and Nintendo Switch.

We also continued our work on the original Steam version of the game, eradicating new bugs you helped us find, improving on compatibility with weaker computers, and most importantly adding new translations. It is thanks to volunteers from our community that the game has received French, Spanish, Chinese and Italian translations, with several more in the beta stage and even more to come!

Now we would like to share our plans for 2021.

First of all, we would like to mention Trudograd. The development of this game is our number one priority and it won’t even stop for Winter holidays. In the upcoming months we will show off new interesting locations and will add new characters and quests to those areas that already exist.

In the major updates that will precede Trudograd’s launch, you will get to see new regions outside the city walls, with their own unique visuals, random encounters and enemies. You will visit Trudograd’s Hydro-Electric Plant which produces power for the city, as well as a desolate village not yet swallowed by the metropolis.

You will also be able to venture up onto the second tier of Trudograd to see how the richer people live. You will even get to reach Seventh Heaven and see the authorities of the metropolis!

Our other plans include:

Porting ATOM RPG for XBOX and PlayStation consoles, just like some of you always wanted us to do. Making Bombagun, a mini-game some of you enjoyed in Trudograd into a standalone free app for iOS and Android.

Launching the full version of Trudograd and actively supporting it.

There is another big project planned for 2021, but it’s too early to share any details about it. As soon as design documents and first batches of concept art are ready, however, we will show and tell of everything we have conceived in this regard, and we really hope that you are going to like it! 🙂

In the end of this summary, we would like to wish you all a happy New Year. We really hope that you will all stay safe and healthy, as well get to have amazing holidays!

We are truly thankful for everything you did this year. Without your helpful reviews, ideas, suggestions and the way you spread information about our games, we would have achieved nothing!

Thank you for staying with us… And let there be ATOM!