Is there any evidence about it being an asset flip or pointing towards it being one? In my career as a game developer, I haven't seen any particularly large AAA-scoped Soviet 50s Atompunk style asset packs out there on the markets. So it would be good to have any reasoning to support such a big assumption.

Boringness, of course, is in the eye of the beholder. However, there is a lot of hype for Atomic Heart, it is rare in practice that new studios build up so much hype.

> purchasing the game LITERALLY killing Ukrainians

I think a lot has already been said about this "scandal". I am skeptical of it. Luke Stephens explores the situation more here - https://youtu.be/d8gKPjBk3Ks?t=705.

You may be confusing this game with the other recent controversial game, The Day Before, which is a tonal clone of The Last of Us down to the title font. It has obviously bought assets everywhere.