Atomic Picnic, BitCake Studio’s anime-inspired co-op roguelike shooter, will launch on Steam Early Access on November 7 at a price of $19.99 (USD).
Team up with up to three fellow “Loners” and embark on scavenger hunts known as “Picnics.” Each adventure pits you against relentless waves of monsters, objectives, and hulking bosses to ensure that no two Picnics are ever alike. Run, gun, explore, collect, upgrade, and decimate – every Picnic offers a unique experience, filled with diverse upgrade paths and special events that challenge both solo adventurers and groups.
Players can hop in to their own Picnics now, in fact - BitCake is running a final public playtest of Atomic Picnic, starting today and ending in one week on October 17th. This test will allow the dev team to get final player feedback as they fine-tune and polish the game in time for Early Access. To take part in the playtest visit the Steam page and click “Request Access” - for more info on what is included in this playtest check out the Steam blog post.
The full game available at Early Access launch will feature:
- Four Hungry Loners: Ash, Hani, Bonnie, and JD are ready to Picnic! Each Loner boasts unique stats and abilities, allowing for varying playstyles. Try each out and find which suits you! Permanently upgrade character stats via Mementos, which are acquired through Discoveries as Loners complete Picnics.
- Mementos and Discoveries: Loners will scour maps for valuable resources that unlock 18 different Mementos: character and gear upgrades for future runs. Completing specific challenges within Picnics will reveal Discoveries, which in turn grant new Mementos, characters, and weapons.
- Three Maps to Picnic On: some text
- Train Plateau: Set up your Picnic in an abandoned trainyard, ripe for resource scavenging. If you’re lucky, you might find something worth cold cash! You can also come back to the Plateau in night mode, facing off against a different set of even tougher enemies.
- Twilight Dam: What cataclysmic event ravaged this dam? Picnic here to explore this mysteriously wrecked rift, in day or night mode!
- City of Sand: Two dimensions, one city. Explore and Picnic in a glorious city caught within the sands of time…or what’s left of it.
- Curious About Curios: In-run upgrades known as Curios represent the dramatic changes a Loner’s build will go through as they progress a Picnic. some text
- Standard Curios unleash your Loner’s full potential as its stats and abilities dynamically adapt to every acquired Curios.
- Cursed Curios offer additional boosts but come with a trade-off, potentially lowering other stats!
- Evolved Curios, created by combining standard Curios, represent the pinnacle for a character’s build and provide unparalleled power.
- Floating on Air: Loners need to be mobile in the wasteland to survive - and they have Impulse Gear to fling, dash, and swing at breakneck speed around each map. Use Air Gear to move in the air, and Gear Dash to speed along the ground.
- Picnic Objectives: Within a Picnic run, Loners will tackle a variety of objectives—from defeating a set number of enemies to toppling specific bosses and destroying pillars in different parts of the map. Each Picnic hosts its own set of challenges for players to accomplish in order to progress the run and make it home alive.
- Wasteland Weaponry: Pick your poison: five traditional weapons – an assault rifle, shotgun, grenade launcher, sniper rifle, and pistol – are at your disposal. Tear down the crowd with these firearms, or blast ‘em to bits with four unique grenades!
- Enemies Galore: In the wasteland, terrors lie in wait for unsuspecting Loners. Face off against 11 distinct enemy types, and when you’ve conquered them, take on three minibosses to gear up for the final showdown with two massive and fearsome end-run bosses.
To stay in touch on all things Atomic Picnic, be sure to join the Discord and wishlist the game on Steam.
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