All I can think about while playing this: "Why am I playing this?"

Classic Fallout games have better writing and Wasteland 2 is IMO the best example of isometric post-apocalyptic RGP sub-genre, while still having enough quality-of-life feature to not irritate modern gamers.
Atom RPG does all the moving parts competently individually, but the complete experience doesn't really gel.

The game is really stingy with ammo, for one. Secondly, character building apparently requires pre-existing knowledge on coming events, locations and best ways to grind specific builds. Making a glass cannon gunslinger was a good plan in my mind, but in the 13 hours played so far, I have pretty much locked myself out of many locations due to being exceedingly squishy despite trying to optimise my f****g pistol skills. Even after a couple of level ups, my classic western hero does better with a dull knife than with a POS rusted pistol that jams every other shot and requires ammo that is ridiculously rare for what it is.

The game is not hopelessly bad or anything, but for me, the amount (or rather the lack) of fun here is what breaks the deal. I could be playing a better specimen of the genre instead, where the amount of time invested also manifests as a growing power level of your character. For certain people Atom RPG could be fun just because of the difficulty and jank, but for most there are other options.

Classic Fallout + Slavjank