Atomic Heart MMORPG Embraces FPS’s Most Controversial Feature

Mundfish announced a new multiplayer shooter game called The Cube. It takes place in the world of Atomic Heart. The announcement happened at Summer Game Fest.

The Cube feels a bit scary. Maybe it reminds us of the Tesseract from the Avengers movies or maybe it looks too perfect and serious. In Mundfish’s new shooter game set in the Atomic Heart world called the Atomic Universe cubes are even more frightening. I talked to CEO Robert Bagratuni to learn about the studio’s first multiplayer game.

The story is about The Cube a strange floating object linked to supernatural events. Like a Rubik’s Cube its sides can turn and cause chaos quickly. Inside it is a special equation that can either save or destroy humanity. In this multiplayer game your goal is clear: jump in solve the puzzle and save everyone. No pressure.

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The Cube is Mundfish’s first live-service game. It takes place in the Atomic Heart world but it is very different from their story-based single-player game. I asked Bragatuni how the team changed to make a multiplayer game and what he wants The Cube to be like. Will it be a co-op shooter like Helldivers 2 or a competitive game like Valorant or Counter-Strike?

The Cube is an action MMORPG that focuses a lot on exploration Bragatuni says through a translator. In Atomic Heart 1the dungeons looked great and were well-designed but players went through them too quickly and couldn’t really explore. That made us a bit sad. We saw that the world of Atomic Heart had a lot of potential for a multiplayer game where players could try different playstyles go back to places and find what suits them best.

We learned a lot while making DLC for Atomic Heart and now have a smooth system for creating fun high-quality content. The Cube will include a lot of this new content with regular updates and our team is now well-prepared to handle everything and stay organized.

Multiplayer shooters have been having a tough time lately. XDefiant just shut down a few days ago, and Concord's troubles are well known. So I asked Bragatuni if it's risky to enter a genre that seems to be shrinking.

The team making the game are gamers themselves he says. We play a lot and do many tests both inside the team and with outside players. In two years we did over 70 playtests. Our goal is to make a fun game that people really want to play not just some strange idea no one asked for.

We always test our ideas with real gamers. We're not making a game just to meet certain goals we want it to be fun and enjoyable. That’s what matters most to us. We also try to stay humble and grounded.

Details about The Cube are still limited and Mundfish hasn’t shared a release date yet. But they have announced Atomic Heart 2. There’s also a full interview available that talks about the game and the team’s unusual goal of becoming a top trend on Pornhub.