You have to be confident that your game is going to be good to start it with a 10-minute river cruise. And for the most part, Atomic Heart delivers: if only because the river cruise shows off its truly astonishing worldbuilding.
Taking to the water in a self-propelled rowing boat, you’ll hold a conversation with the AI in your left glove — which takes the form of little tentacles that sprout from the centre of your palm. All around you, people bustle around in what quickly becomes apparent is some kind of futuristic Soviet utopia (you can, in fact, play this game entirely in Russian).
