History VideoGame / AtomicHeart

** An [[AvertedTrope aversion]] to this is why P-3 actually believes [[spoiler:Petrov's claims that the robots have been deliberatly made combat-capable]]. While Sergei notes that [[spoiler:Petrov]] could absolutely be responsible for the robots turning hostiles, he notes that the individual is only a programmer, and would neither have the fighting knowledge to make robots good combatants nor the engineering know-how to install actual weaponry on them.

* DeadPersonConversation: The Thought communication devices you try to use become reliable when searching for clues to your next objective, as they remain active even when the wearer dies. That said, according to Charles, because the wearer is dead, the information the Thought gathers will eventually become corrupted.

* CapitalismIsBad: ZigZagged. In the game, the Soviet characters constantly insult the United States and the West for being heartless capitalist states that exploit their workers and crow on about how the US is suffering from record high unemployment and wealth inequality and is on the verge of a Communist revolution any day now. However, what they don't openly talk about is that much of the United States' problems stem from the Soviet Union exporting their robots exclusively to American corporations as a deliberate means of destabilizing the country. The game also shows that despite how rosy things appear in the Soviet Union, the Soviet leaders are just as corrupt and greedy as what their Western counterparts are claimed to be. For example, [[spoiler:the rampant and widespread human experimentation taking place in Facility 3826, the plot to hijack Kollektiv 2.0 as a means of mass mind control, and the plot to flood the work with {{Killer Robot}}s disguised as civilian workers to foment a global Soviet military takeover.]]

* CapitalismIsBad[=/=]DirtyCommunists: In the game, the Soviet characters constantly insult the United States and the West for being heartless capitalist states that exploit their workers and crow on about how the US is suffering from record high unemployment and wealth inequality and is on the verge of a Communist revolution any day now. However, what they don't openly talk about is that much of the United States' problems stem from the Soviet Union exporting their robots exclusively to American corporations as a deliberate means of destabilizing the country. The game also shows that despite how rosy things appear in the Soviet Union, the Soviet leaders are just as corrupt and greedy as what their Western counterparts are claimed to be. For example, [[spoiler:the rampant and widespread human experimentation taking place in Facility 3826, the plot to hijack Kollektiv 2.0 as a means of mass mind control, and the plot to flood the work with {{Killer Robot}}s disguised as civilian workers to foment a global Soviet military takeover.]]

** Played straight fir Sechenov, who is singlehandedly responsible for the invention of Neuropolymer and has had a hand in all of its applications, and is a OneManIndustrialRevolution.
** An [[AvertedTrope aversion]] to this is why P-3 actually believes [[spoiler:Petrov's]] claims about [[spoiler:the robots having been deliberatly made combat-capable]]. While Sergei notes that [[spoiler:Petrov]] could absolutely be responsible for the robots turning hostiles, he notes that the individual is only a programmer, and would neither have the fighting knowledge to make robots good combatants nor the engineering know-how to install actual weaponry on them.

* CrapsaccharineWorld: Well, it ''is'' Soviet punk. Even before things go downhill in a hurry, the cheerful facade is slightly punctured in a few places by this universe's introduction of the Chinese-style social credit system, for one, prisoners are routinely abused even if they're supposed to be rehabilitated, and of course, Cold War propaganda is absolutely everywhere.

* HaveANiceDeath: As revealed by the 10-minute Bossfight gameplay, dying in-game will result in a short cartoon of a character getting killed like what just happened to you.

%%* ShortRangeShotgun: One of the weapons seen in the gameplay trailer. Its short effective range may be justified in that its shrapnel shot would be less effective against the solid metal of the robots you are fighting.%%zce

** The first look at Baba Zina the player gets is in the boat ride at the very start of the game as she helps a robot wrangler get his charges under control. She asks him for the access code to the control unit, and it is 0451. continuing the fine tradition of immersive sims like ''Videogame/SystemShock'' and its successors in using it as the first numerical key code the player encounters in the game.

* UncannyValley: The more human-looking robots definitely come off as this.

** The first look at Baba Zina the player gets is in the boat ride at the very start of the game as she helps a robot wrangler get his charges under control. She asks him for the access code to the control unit, and it is 0451. continuing the fine tradition of ''Videogame/SystemShock'' and its successors in using it as the first numerical key code the player encounters in the game.

** The first look at Baba Zina the player gets is in the boat ride at the very start of the game as she helps a robot wrangler get his charges under control. She asks him for the access code to the control unit, and it is [[Literature/Fahrenheit451 0451]]. continuing the fine tradition of ''Videogame/SystemShock'' and its successors in using it as the first numerical key code the player encounters in the game.

** Most of the songs used are from the seventies.

** Yuri Gagarin still holds the title of first man in the space, but his flight was in 1951. In the 1951 he should be 17-years old!

** In the prologue, walking down a side lane before the memorial leads you to a discussion between two young men courting the same young lady regarding a giant head of Lenin. The lady in question is named after and speaks in the same manner as Ellochka from Literature/TheTwelveChairs.
** The first look at Baba Zina the player gets is in the boat ride at the very start of the game as she helps a robot wrangler get his charges under control. She asks him for the access code to the control unit, and it is [[Literature/Fahrenheit451 0451]]. continuing the fine tradition of Videogame/SystemShock and its successors in using it as the first numerical key code the player encounters in the game.
** The timed locks you open by snapping your fingers have the face of the robo-hare from Animation/NuPogodi above the timer. Given that most televisions in the game show random episodes of the cartoon, you probably will have seen the one featuring him in the Prologue already (the episode is from 1984 by the way).

** Various television sets across the game world show you random episodes of Animation/NuPogodi even though the game takes place in 1955 and the first episode came out in 1969.

** Chaika limousines was launched in the late 1950s and used styling cues borrowed from 1955 Packards. Here, in 1955 (before any Packards) they already treated as old clunkers.

** ZiL-130 trucks are commonplace, about 10 years too early. What's worse, however, is the fact that Zil-130 styling was heavily influenced by 1955 Ford F-series trucks, and it rather implausible, that without that influence designers would came up with exactly the same style of truck.

* AlternateHistory: The game is set in 1955, but the technology level of the Soviet Union [[SovietSuperscience surpasses the modern levels of tech]], with advanced robots and genetic engineering, videocalls, and an Internet equivalent known as Kollectiv. The game intro mentioned other divergences stemming from said advanced Soviet technology such as the Soviet Union outright winning the war against Nazi Germany in WWII and absorbing the entirety of eastern Europe into itself with mention of a German SSR, as well as things like Soviet robots causing increasing unemployment in the US. Most notable is the "Brown Plague", a pandemic that swept Europe in 1943, allegedly [[StupidJetpackHitler bioengineered by the Nazis]], killing their own troops as well as civilians and allowing the Soviets to roll up.

* AlternateHistory: The game is set in 1955, but the technology level of the Soviet Union [[SovietSuperscience surpasses the modern levels of tech]], with advanced robots and genetic engineering, videocalls, and an Internet equivalent known as Kollectiv. The game intro mentioned other divergences stemming from said advanced Soviet technology such as the Soviet Union outright winning the war against Nazi Germany in WWII and absorbing the entirety of eastern Europe into itself with mention of a German SSR, as well as things like Soviet robots causing increasing unemployment in the US.