The wacky Soviet-era FPS Atomic Heart will have two playable endings, according to the development team at Mundfish.
Spotted by wccftech, Mundfish confirmed that Atomic Heart will contain two different endings in the recently updated FAQ section of the game's official Discord channel. According to the developer, the ending that a player receives is triggered based upon a previous moral decision that they take.
The FAQ reads, "We've put an important moral choice in the hands of the player closer to the finale, because we want to nudge the community to argue and discuss about the themes that we have laid out in the story. We want you to draw your own conclusions and make your own decision, not being influenced by forces from above."
The team has, for obvious reasons, avoided giving away any details to what the decision in question is, but it sounds like it could offer some amount of replayability. Mundfish does insist, however, that Atomic Heart will not play like an RPG, and is instead an FPS game with a "strict linear plot" in which "one should not expect incredible variety".
Additionally, the FAQ also gives fans an update on Atomic Heart's development process. Mundfish has said that the game is almost complete and is now finally "at the stage of polishing and final assembly".
Despite being almost finished, the developer is reluctant to share news about a release date for Atomic Heart. Mundfish says, "In general, we cannot tell you the release date right now due to a million little nuances, starting with factors beyond our control (localization of the game into other languages), and ending with the mood and atmosphere within the team, which will obviously be worse if we eventually have to move this date."
For those who haven't followed the story so far, check out our Atomic Heart explainer video to learn more about what's going on in the game's weird-yet-wonderful nuclearpunk dystopian world. And while we don't have a release date, we do know that Atomic Heart will be free on Xbox Game Pass from day one. When it does release, you'll be able to make use of its fantastic photo mode.
Jared Moore is a freelance writer for IGN who, following the release of the Atomic Heart trailer, has a newfound fear for blood tentacles. You can follow him on Twitter.