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Atomicrops review

Atomicrops review

A vibrant bullet-hell roguelite that’s initially off-puttingly tricky, but keeps you hooked with its inviting presentation and a bumper crop of upgrades and approaches.

  • Developer: Bird Bath Games
  • Publisher: Raw Fury
  • (Full) Release: May 28th
  • On: Windows
  • From: Epic
  • Price: £12/€12/$15

Atomicrops

is not your granpappy’s pixel art farming sim. It’s not a farming sim at all, really, but more a twin stick bullet-hell-and-tarnation with some very light nods to life-sim elements through upgrades. It’s also moreish, dizzyingly vibrant, and full of more squirming veggies than when you threw up that carrot cake your mum tried to make look like a regular birthday cake by dumping a bucket of sprinkles and icing on top.

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