![]() ![]() The crops you do manage to harvest are turned into currency to be spent on weapons, seeds and tools that will help you fare a little better the next day, and any infrastructure you’ve built – or animals such as pigs and cows you’ve employed to automatically till and water your tiles – will still be waiting there for you when the helicopter returns you to your farm at dawn. Fend them off, harvest your fully grown crops and by morning you’ll be evacuated by helicopter to the village hub to spend your earnings, like Anneka Rice after she finds some treasure, except the world has ended so the treasure is a potato. Mutated rabbits armed with grenades, furious moles whose faces split open like hairy flowers to spit fireballs at you, and slimy slugs and bug swarms that eat your plants if they can get close enough. Here you’ll find camps of enemies guarding new seeds and pick-ups that help automate growth, expand your plot, improve your yield and defend your precious veggies.Īs soon as the sun sets, your vulnerable little farm is besieged by three waves of enemies. During the day you have just enough time to explore some of the surrounding wastelands, which sit to the west and east of your little plot of farmable land. ![]() You’ve got a gun to protect your crops, a bucket to water them with and a till for churning up the soil in preparation for planting. ![]() Atomicrops is one such vision of a cartoonish radioactive future, a post apocalyptic twin-stick farming game in which vegetables grow to full size in a matter of minutes so long as they’re not munched to bits by mutated slugs.Īt the crack of dawn each day you’re airdropped into your field, where you’ve got just a precious few minutes to perform your duties as a farmer of irradiated produce for the local village. It speaks to the uneasy balance between humankind’s pessimism and optimism that we’re all fairly certain we’re going to nuke one another into oblivion at some point, but that it will also be loads of fun for those who survive the blast, with mutated trees and cool trucks and glowing green goop flying everywhere. This week, he's farming mutant veg at the end the world in Atomicrops. Premature Evaluation is the weekly column in which Steve Hogarty explores the wilds of early access. ![]()
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