Key facts
- Cheapest right now
- € Standard · Global · G2A
- Live offers
- 64 offers · 17 stores
- Our pick
- Standard · Steam Key · Global · Itemku — €
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Atomic Heart has turned up in this week's GamesPlanet sale, and the deal round-ups have picked it up from there: €12.44 for the Standard, €20.60 for the Premium. Our PC page carries 66 live offers from 20 stores. Drop that figure in among them and it comes out thirteenth.
Steam is charging €11.99 for the same download today. The cheapest code on the page is €7.94.
Twelve offers come in under the sale price
Itemku opens with a global Standard key at €7.94. Behind it, G2A at €9.61, except that what changes hands there is a shared Steam account; more on that below. Instant Gaming asks €9.79. Gamivo then takes two places at €10.42, a Steam Gift and a Standard for exactly the same money, before G2A comes back at €10.76 with a second shared account. From there: Gamivo again at €11.10, Kinguin at €11.60, a third Gamivo Standard at €11.73, Kinguin at €11.98, Steam's own €11.99 and Driffle at €12.00. Thirteenth in that order, GamesPlanet at €12.44.
Read in that order, the weekly deal costs 45 cents more than buying straight from Valve, and €4.50 more than the cheapest key on the page. Measured against the undiscounted rate it is a real cut, mind you: Green Man Gaming and Allyouplay are both still showing €59.99 on the same page, three years after the game went on sale.
A code you redeem, a gift you wait for, an account you borrow
Three different things are being sold here and the sorting order does not care which is which. A key you paste into Steam yourself: the game lands in your library, under your name, and the transaction is over. A Steam Gift comes out of the seller's account instead, so there is a friend request, a transfer to wait for and a region that has to match. Several of those are scattered around the page, at €10.42 on Gamivo, €12.92 on Kinguin and K4G, €12.94 on G2A.
Then there are the accounts. G2A has two, at €9.61 and €10.76, and both of them sit inside the twelve offers above. You are handed somebody's login, the game stays in their library and you play inside it. That €9.61 is the second cheapest thing on the whole page, which is exactly why it is worth knowing what it is before you click.
| What you are paying for | Cheapest | Store |
|---|---|---|
| Standard key, global region | €7.94 | Itemku |
| Shared Steam account | €9.61 | G2A |
| Steam Gift | €10.42 | Gamivo |
| Official store | €11.99 | Steam |
| This week's sale | €12.44 | GamesPlanet |
The Gold sits below every Premium on the page
Three editions are on sale at once and they refuse to queue up in the order you would expect. The Premium starts at €20.60 on GamesPlanet, then K4G €23.81, Kinguin €25.04, Gamivo €25.54, G2A €29.25, and away at the far end Humble Bundle at €99.99. The Gold Edition is on Driffle at €19.53, under all of them. The same Gold costs €70.00 at Gamivo, three and a half times what Driffle wants for it.
Nobody designed that scale. On a resale page the amount follows the stock each seller happens to be holding, and there is no official rate card left for anyone to line up behind. What each edition contains is a question for the store you buy from; what our page shows is that the same edition can cost fifty euros more depending on who is selling it.
Players rate it well above the reviewers
Steam's verdict is Very Positive, off 32,198 positive reviews out of 39,751. The press was cooler. Metacritic gives it 76, and OpenCritic has 140 reviews on file, 86 of them from top critics, with a median of 75, a top-critic average of 74.11 and 54.07% recommending it. The label there reads Fair.
Mundfish built it, Focus Entertainment published it, and it went on sale on 21 February three years ago. It is a first-person shooter set in an alternative Soviet utopia where the robots have turned on the people who made them. A glove that throws powers around, a shotgun, and an art department whose work most players remember better than the fighting.
Five monthly floors, and this month's is the highest
We hold 2,668 readings of this page, the first of them dated 16 July five years ago, long before the game reached the shops. The cheapest we recorded each month goes: €6.78 in April, off three days of readings only, then €6.28 in May, €6.49 in June, €7.61 in July, €7.52 in August and €7.94 so far this month.
So today's entry point is the highest floor of the last five months, and the sale being written up elsewhere gets nowhere near what May was doing. There is room for the page to come back down, and anyone who can leave it a few weeks has a reasonable case for doing so.
Keep the size of it in perspective, though. Between the best month in our records and this morning there are €1.66. That is the entire argument. If you want to play it this weekend, buy Atomic Heart key from the top of the page and forget the sale; the euro and a half is not worth a month of not playing.
One footnote on the readings above. A handful of old entries survive from stores that stopped refreshing their data years ago, MMOGA at €25.99, Enjify at €31.98, Dream Game at €66.49 and Royal Key Software at €67.11. We keep them out of every figure quoted here, because the last thing we read from a shop is not what that shop is asking now.
What the console pages hold
Xbox One is the busy one: 33 offers starting at €7.99, with an account at the front rather than a code. The PS5 page has seven offers from €16.57, and the cheapest is an account as well. PS4 has two, from €14.99, same arrangement.
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