It’s time to run some Picnics! Atomic Picnic, the cooperative roguelike shooter from BitCake Studio, is now available in Steam Early Access for $19.99. Grab your copy, some friends, and venture out into the wasteland for fame, loot, and glory today!
Set in a colorful post-apocalyptic world with an anime-inspired art style, Atomic Picnic combines elements of roguelike, bullet heaven, and survivorlike games. Players will load out their “Loner” and embark on runs, known as “Picnics,” into the wasteland in a search for fame, loot, and glory. Waves of monsters, varied objectives, and map-spanning bosses await the brave Loners on each Picnic they run. With different goals to meet, events to overcome, and builds to try out, every Picnic is a unique experience.
The Early Access version of Atomic Picnic features:
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.
“We’ve been working on Atomic Picnic for over two years, and now that launch day has come, we can’t wait to see what players around the world think about our game,” said Edu Lamhut, Creative Director at BitCake Studio. “This game has been created with the community through several public playtests, and that won’t stop now. We have much more we want to build and add to Atomic Picnic during Early Access, and community feedback will continue to be key. We’re listening, so please keep the feedback coming!”
The team at BitCake Studio has also shared a roadmap of future content to be added during Early Access, which includes:
More Curios: Expanding the amount of base Curios, Cursed Curios, and Evolutions available during runs.
New Mementos: More opportunities to build your character between runs.
New Characters: More unique characters to play as, and design builds around.
New Enemies, Mini-Bosses, and Bosses: Growing the ranks of enemies and bosses you’ll face in Atomic Picnic.
New Weapons & Mod System: New weapons will be added, as will a Weapon Mod System, giving players more ways to customize their characters and builds.
And Much More: Twitch integration, new maps, new Combat Director AI, and much more are also in the works!
Head over to the Steam page to grab your copy of Atomic Picnic now, and join the Discord server to connect with the studio and other players.
