Atomic Heart
Skip · Shooter · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Under the fair line today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$59.99Skip
Typical seasonal cut
$14.9975% offFair
- Cost per hour▼
- $3.70/hr
- Reviews▼
- 81% of 59,682
- Critics
- 76 players 5 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 52% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $14.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 16.2h
- To 100%
- 37.7h 2.3x the story
- Finish
- 6% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 82
Price and sales
- Sales
- 40 on record
- Typical cut
- 67% off
- Steam low
- $11.99 September 2026
- Sale every
- 32d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 2,268 now
- Recent reviews
- 85% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 57% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
92% start to 6% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 40 times in the 4 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 67 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, BONEWORKS ($29.99, scores 65) beats it on value, while it beats Scorn ($39.99, scores 28).
More about Atomic Heart
Steam's global achievement data puts about 6 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 16.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 8 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 3,012 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic); the score docks it lightly for that.
16.2 hours to finish it, 38 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.3 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 14 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Good game. I would say English voice over is better than Russian even though it is a game made by Russians about USSR. It feels like it was written for English and then translated to Russian. Additionally, Russian VO feels too over the top. Epic in a bad way. It feels like a dub, a movie that was English and using the usual DUB voice acting been voiced to be Russian while stripping everyone of their likable...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
An absolute masterpiece that every self-respecting (a dying breed, I know) Russian-speaking fella must play. Terribly paced at the beginning and the comic-relief, tutorial spoon-feeding sidekick glove won't shut the h3ll up, and the game offers next to none variety of character build options (I'd say it's about on par with the first Bioshock minus the variety of useful plasmids that game offered - here you have...
I played the Demo and it played as an RPG, Now that I have bought the game it is playing as a Platformer, I hate platformers and honestly I am starting to hate this game. There are enough elements that are not platformer that I might try to finish the game but if you are like me and get no enjoyment from a platformer then I say avoid this game and find other games to spend your money on.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
In a mad and sublime utopian world, take part in explosive encounters. Adapt your fighting style to each opponent, use your environment and upgrade your equipment to fulfill your mission. If you want to reach the truth, you'll have to pay in blood.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 4 GB VRAM, AMD Radeon R9 380 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960, 90 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Atomic Heart scores 41/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/668580/atomic-heartReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 7, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.