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The Invincible is now available on Steam (store.steampowered.com)
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[–] GARG@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 year ago

Atompunk is the dark version of 50's era astro-futurism, like in the Fallout games.

The "punk" moniker suffixed onto genres generally implies tones and/or themes one would associate with the punk movement, e.g. anger at a corrupt system, anti-authoritarianism, anarchist ideals, etc.

I'll agree the usage is oversaturated, though, and is sometimes only used to convey "dystopian"