History YMMV / AtomicHeart

* Anvilicious: The game, just like Franchise/Bioshock or Franchise/Fallout, doesn’t shy out of why the Soviet Union was evil and how bad they could have been if they obtained so much power. It also talks of how we should cherish our free will and do our best choices. But due to how many SpaceWhaleAesops this morals are, the game can also be seen about how utopias are simply something unobtainable due to the [[HumansAreBastards human nature]] no matter how advanced we get.

* HilariousInHindsight: NORA is oftenly compared with Smidge from HiFiRush, both are from games that came early in 2023 and both are fridge-like appliances with an A.I. installed, with problematic behaviour (NORA with her Yandere tendencies and Smidge with his StalkerWithoutACrush)

* FriendlyFandoms: It seems there is a friendship between Atomic Heart players and WebAnimation/{{Murder Drones}}, drawing crossovers between the robots. This is especially prominent due to the usage of Doll, a worker drone girl who only speaks in Russian in crossovers with Atomic Heart which it takes in a setting in Soviet Russia, with both fandoms joking that Doll is a soviet member.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: ''Oh yeah''. Geoffrey Day has produced banging remixes and covers of classic 70s and 80s Soviet-era songs that fit well with the combat, as well as original tracks. Special mentions are: [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lrD81TzOrcg&pp=ygUHcHQtMXgxMg%3D%3D PT-1X12]], [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sILl2rdA0Hk&pp=ygUMTWEgOSBiZWx5YXNo MA-9 Belyash]] and

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: ''Oh yeah''. Geoffrey Day has produced banging remixes and covers of classic 70s and 80s Soviet-era songs that fit well with the combat, as well as original tracks. Special mentions are: [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lrD81TzOrcg&pp=ygUHcHQtMXgxMg%3D%3D PT-1X12]]

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: ''Oh yeah''. Geoffrey Day has produced banging remixes and covers of classic 70s and 80s Soviet-era songs that fit well with the combat, as well as original tracks.

** The ''aggressively'' [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext sexual female vending machine]] is also quite memorable.

* HoYay: Fans of the game have been shipping Sergey and [[spoiler:Chariton]], depicting them in a “enemies to lovers” type of shipping.

* HilariousInHindsight: NORA is oftenly compared with Smidge from Hi-FiRush, both are from games that came early in 2023 and both are fridge-like appliances with an A.I. installed, with problematic behaviour (NORA with her Yandere tendencies and Smidge with his StalkerWithoutACrush)

* HilariousInHindsight: NORA is oftenly compared with Smidge from HiFiRush, both are from games that came early in 2023 and both are appliances with an A.I., with problematic behaviour (NORA with her Yandere tendencies and Smidge with his StalkerWithoutACrush)

* HilariousInHandsight: NORA is oftenly compared with Smidge from HiFiRush, both are from games that came early in 2023 and both are appliances with an A.I., with problematic behaviour (NORA with her Yandere tendencies and Smidge with his StalkerWithoutACrush)

* HoYay: Fans of the game have been shipping Sergey and [[spoiler:Chariton]]

** The sensual ballerina robot twins in tight leotards with [[{{Fembot}} very curvy chassis]] are the part most people remember about the game, despite their limited screentime.
** The ''aggressively'' [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext sexual female vending machine.]]

** Film/LordOfWar[[labelnote:Explanation]]A very dark and morbid meme. But the aforementioned FandomRivalry with ''VideoGame/{{STALKER}}'' did spawn jokes that players are going to buy both to further finance both sides of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in order to prolong the conflict, akin to that of Lord of War. In fact, there is an achievement called "Lord of War" for collecting all weapons.[[/labelnote]]

* BestKnownForTheFanservice: By far the sensual ballerina robot twins in tight leotards. As well as the ''aggressively'' [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext sexual female vending machine.]]

* DirtyCommunists: Subverted because it is a notable anti-communist story coming from a former communist country. While Westerners are used to seeing CapitalismIsBad stories like Bioshock, having a detailed critique of communism in the entertainment industry is rare. However, it doesn't fall into the DirtyCommunists trope fully, since the authors actually were raised under communism.

** On the other side of the coin, the game can be seen as a subtle TakeThat towards Russia along with USSR nostalgia, as the setting features strict policing of Soviet citizens, inequality between communist party members and commoners, harsh treatment of political dissidents, and [[spoiler:secret projects intended to cripple the Western world and rob people of their free will]] beneath its utopian veneer. Suffice to say, the game can be considered anti-communist in many respects.

%% Do not add Base Breaking Character, Broken Base, The Scrappy, Never Live It Down or Overshadowed By Controversy examples until six months after the work's release (August 18th, 2023).

* AngstWhatAngst: Our protagonist never seems to react to the discovery the robot ballerinas he's been forced to fight throughout are actually programmed with the memories of his dead wife.

* GoddamnedBats: The Pchela drones, a series of weak flying machines, equipped with either a very telegraphed laser or a slow melee weapon, both of which barely tickle, both of which go down in 2-3 shots from even the most basic of pistols. They, however, have two extremely annoying characteristics - first, they respawn infinitely, and very quickly in the open world. Second, [[{{MookMedic}} they constantly resurrect already killed enemies, which happens rather quickly, with no limit on how many times they can do it.]] As a result, being in any overworld area with them present, will quickly become an exercise in futility, as swarms of them repeatedly resurrect every enemy (including other Pchela drones) the player just killed. To add insult to injury, one of its rarer variants carries a CCTV Camera, constantly alerting all nearby robots to the players' presence.

** A piece of incidental dialogue when discussing the incident that starts the robot uprising with Char-LES reveals that this is NORA's version of the robot insanity that made the VOVs and other robots start killing everybody. Given that she murders some surviving scientists for raw materials but leaves P-3 alone, we should be grateful for her affection.
* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: Due to the controversy surrounding developer Mudfish's funding and calls for boycott of the game in context the ongoing Russian Invasion of Ukraine, the game [[https://gameranx.com/updates/id/442979/article/atomic-hearts-steam-debut-beats-hogwarts-legacy-in-steam-sales-charts/ shot up the Steam charts]].

** In other side of the coin, the game can be seen as a subtle TakeThat on Russia along with USSR Nostalgia, as the setting had strict policing of its citizens, inequality between communist party members and citizens, harsh treatment of political dissidents, and [[spoiler: secret attempt to mind control civilians]] beneath its utopian veneer. Moreover, it has been considered as anti-communist.

*** Really, Sergey's use of "crispy critters" as a CatchPhrase whenever things go wrong tends to just undermine the event that's caught him off guard.
*** The Russian version comes off as similarly oddly vulgar and confusing given the veneer of Soviet Superiority that Sechenov who P-3 looks up to, wears. However, a late game audio log reveals that it all stems from the combination of [[spoiler: memory editing Nechayev received when he became P-3 and the trauma said editing necessitated.]] The fact that Char-LES is repeatedly confused by the things P-3 says and regularly tells him off for his language should clue you in that it was done on purpose.

*** A piece of incidental dialogue when discussing the incident that starts the robot uprising with Char-LES reveals that this is NORA's version of the robot insanity that made the VOVs and other robots start killing everybody. Given that she murders some of the surviving scientists for raw materials but leaves P-3 alone, we should be grateful for her affections.

** Film/LordOfWar [[labelnote:Explanation]]A very dark and morbid meme. But the aforementioned FandomRivalry with ''VideoGame/{{STALKER}}'' did spawn jokes that players are going to buy both to further finance both sides of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in order to prolong the conflict, akin to that of Lord of War. In fact, there is an achievement called "Lord of War" for collecting all weapons.[[/labelnote]]

** Six hours of sex scene [[labelnote:Explanation]]A developer jokingly stated before release that the game will feature six hours of sex scenes, leading to no small amount of playful disappointment when the scenes are nowhere to be found in the final release.[[/labelnote]].