Hello friends. This is a Let’s Play video of “Atomic City”. Mouse-only for super simple gameplay, but the challenge ramps up. Survive waves of enemies bombing your city. Shoot ’em up!
Anthund’s Atomic City is Missile Command reborn for the bullet hell generation – a mouse-only arcade shooter that strips away every ounce of complexity to leave nothing but pure, distilled chaos as thousands of bombs rain down on your city in relentless one-minute waves. Two mouse buttons, two weapons, and a screen full of incoming apocalypse is all it takes for this $2 indie gem to channel the same “easy to learn, impossible to master” magic that made arcade cabinets eat quarters back in the ’80s, now wrapped in gorgeous pixel art and a frenetic modern pace that turns each wave into a white-knuckle tightrope walk between survival and total annihilation. Supplies drop from destroyed enemies, new weapons bring powerful but ammo-limited lifelines, a between-wave shop adds just enough tactical depth, and an online leaderboard ensures you’re never truly done – because in Atomic City there is no winning, only the question of how long you can hold the line before nuclear winter arrives.
Developer: anthund
Publisher: anthund
Genre: Action, Bullet Hell, Shoot 'Em Up, Casual, Pixel Graphics, Indie
Release Date: 27 Oct, 2024
Reviewed on: PC/Windows
Available on: PC/Windows, Linux, Mac
Link: Steam
Review copy was provided.
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