Summer Game Fest 2025: Atomic Heart Studio Mundfish Debuts 3 Titles
Mundfish announced Atomic Heart 2, along with a spin-off and new IP at Summer Game Fest 2025. The news comes a week after the announcement that Atomic Heart has surpassed 10 million players worldwide. The reveal of the two Atomic titles mostly highlighted Atomic Heart 2, but still provided a solid outlook of what The Cube will be about. ILL is a survival horror game Mundfish and Team Clout are bringing to life, inspired and made from visionary horror experts too!
Atomic Heart 2 is described as a 'spiritual successor' to the first game, while The Cube is an MMORPG shooter. 'Atomic Heart 2 is an action-adventure role-playing game that brings you back to a retrofuturistic universe, full of new dangers. The sequel features a living world rich with possibilities and places a heavy emphasis on story, role-playing elements, and player freedom.'
Much like its predecessor, Atomic Heart 2 is set in an alternate-history retrofuturistic universe. In this utopian world of science and technology, humans lived in harmony with their loyal and fervent robots. Unfortunately, what was meant to bring about an era of peace and prosperity at the hands of advanced robotics and AI, has now spiraled into chaos. Atomic Heart 2 picks up with a world on the brink of collapse. It's up to the player to prevent it—however, beware, as the truth runs deeper than anyone may realize.
Here are some of the highlighted features of Mundfish's sequel title:
Realistic graphics that depict a dystopian, retrofuturistic setting.
An expanded RPG system that immerses players in a living game world filled with various activities.
The story continues: a gripping plot with mysteries and high stakes, where beloved characters return and new ones help the world unfold from completely different sides.
An enhanced, explosive combat system that lets the player use both hands simultaneously—combining glove abilities with a wide array of melee and ranged weapons.
The spin-off title is described as such: 'The Cube, a new multiplayer RPG shooter with unique world-building, an intriguing story, exciting quests, and constant progression, is shaking the Atomic Universe. A giant, levitating Cube with rotating edges appeared, hiding a deadly equation inside. Can you survive another turn?'
Atomic Heart 2 is currently in development for PC and consoles. No release window/date is listed yet.
Set in a mysterious research fort, ILL is a realistic first-person action/horror game that plunges players headlong into an immersive, atmospheric body horror narrative. From a development team that has worked with renowned film directors and designed monsters for horror films, and featuring innovative gameplay mechanics like a cutting-edge dismemberment system, binaural audio implementation, and realistic physics.
ILL is both a love letter and an evolution of the survival horror genre. The title is built on the belief that games can go where films cannot get under the skin. To make the player not just witness fear, but experience it. Pain, dread, and disorientation are delivered straight into your hands with no escape, unlike in movies, where characters move you through the terror.
The horror survival title is developed by horror experts who worked on films and series such as V/H/S/Beyond, Longlegs, IT: Welcome to Derry, Azrael, and various Sony Pictures horror projects. You can wishlsit the game now, but no release date/window was announced.
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