Current state of Russian RPGs (with screenshots)

[Baron Dupek]

Deep Shadows was ukraininan.
Same to the STALKER developers.
NPCs in the latter are not rusians.
Common mistake.

 

[Stompa]

The common mistake is to assume that Ukraine is not Russia.

 

[Excidium II]

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[Falksi]

Anyone any idea how the war in Ukraine has effected Russian RPGs? (If at all?)

 

[Feyd Rautha]

It will bring a new renaissance!

 

[Wunderbar]

Anyone any idea how the war in Ukraine has effected Russian RPGs? (If at all?)

were there any russian rpgs out there except for WotR?

 

[Falksi]

Anyone any idea how the war in Ukraine has effected Russian RPGs? (If at all?)

were there any russian rpgs out there except for WotR?

No idea, I thought Russia was the world's leading beacon of light according to some of the posters on here?

I'd expect that said beacon would at least have a few.

 

[Baron Dupek]

I though the consensus was they're mostly garbage beside 2 Pathfinders made recently, which was decent?

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Anyone any idea how the war in Ukraine has effected Russian RPGs? (If at all?)

bunch of games with devs in ukraine are getting fucked

 

[Wunderbar]

ATOM team is international: some of the devs are russians, some - ukrainians, some are from baltic states. They are alive and even released an update for ATOM rpg recently.

Encased came out and fizzled, seems like the devs are still working on it though. Fun fact - you can't even see game's steam page if you try to access it from a russian IP address, Deep Silver delisted it from Russian's steam store.

Owlcat are still alive, but their recent announcement of the second season pass for WotR raises some concerns regarding their financial situation.

I'm sure other russian devs are just sitting quietly as they don't want to attract unwanted attention.

 

[Wunderbar]

Russian mmorpg Allods Online is currently experiencing a resurgence in popularity due to Blizzard closing World of Warcraft in Russia, and starving WoW addicts wanting to play something similar.

 

[Lord_Potato]

The common mistake is to assume that Ukraine is not Russia.

This comment aged poorly :D

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Before this was I was looking for a music cd from Redemption (goth). I could only get them from a Russian seller. After they arrived they wouldn't convert to mp3/wav/or anything. Waste of money.... then the war started. I should have used bandcamo from the get go. Looks like its my fault Putin went nutz. He blamed Ukranian postage for scrambling my cd. I shrugged amd just pirated it else where. The bandcamp one was cut horribly. Tracks leading into tracks. I copied manually via a different method. The result was ok but meh.


Then i found out the band was from Salt Lake City.... WTF?!?!

 

[Lord_Potato]

No idea, I thought Russia was the world's leading beacon of light according to some of the posters on here?

I'd expect that said beacon would at least have a few.

Central Eastern Europe is the beacon as a whole. Russia only has Pathfinfer games to offer, and Encased if you consider it good.

Also, a working English translation of Goldenland 2 resurfaced recently so most of us can finally try this Russian fantasy Fallout (Russian speakers say it's shit though).

 

[jebsmoker]

frozen state is a pretty good but rough survival CRPG that's clearly inspired by stuff like CDDA. it was basically made by some guy in russia with a shoestring budget and it shows, but i still like it. i think the only other talent that was onboard was some guy from GSC who worked on stalker

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

were there any Russian rpgs out there except for WotR?

Black Book is an RPG by current Codex standards of identifying as one and was a pretty good card-based combat game with a solid foundation in Russian folklore and a strong aesthetic sense:

 

[wishbonetail]

Kings Bounty, Corsairs and Space Rangers are among my most favorite games. It is too bad that nowadays most intelligent people had already left russia or died.

 

[Modron]

were there any russian rpgs out there except for WotR?

Yeo the guy behind The Friends of Ringo Ishikawa and the upcoming Fading Afternoon is a vatnik.

http://team.by-yeo.ru/

 

[Serus]

I though the consensus was they're mostly garbage beside 2 Pathfinders made recently, which was decent?

One Pathfinder game. One that was (semi-)decent and a second one that was less than that. I don't want to think what will happen if they ever try to make a new game on a new engine and/or ruleset. I don't even mean their ideology, only programming, system making, design, etc... It won't be pretty.