Russian game recommendation: Metro 2033
Apr. 22nd, 2011 09:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solipsistnationMetro 2033 is on sale on Steam this weekend for ten bucks. This is another supremely atmospheric Russian game in the same vein as Stalker-- if you thought Stalker was too wide-open and didn't morally judge you enough, Metro 2033 is the game for you!
At ten bucks, it's a good deal for some lovely tense post-apocalyptic Moscow adventuring, full of lovely post-Soviet bleakness. It's also very very hard, since, you know, it's Russian.
Also, Ice Pick Lodge (makers of the unplayable but fascinating game Pathologic and the unplayable but fascinating game The Void (according to Wikipedia, they were the winners of "the 'Most Non-Standard Game' award at the Russian Game Developers Conference, KRI in 2005 and 2007 respectively." No shit, huh?) have released something called "Cargo!" which looks fairly mad and might actually be a playable game, also on Steam. I guess I'll find out when I finish portal 2-- got to Chapter 8 last night.
At ten bucks, it's a good deal for some lovely tense post-apocalyptic Moscow adventuring, full of lovely post-Soviet bleakness. It's also very very hard, since, you know, it's Russian.
Also, Ice Pick Lodge (makers of the unplayable but fascinating game Pathologic and the unplayable but fascinating game The Void (according to Wikipedia, they were the winners of "the 'Most Non-Standard Game' award at the Russian Game Developers Conference, KRI in 2005 and 2007 respectively." No shit, huh?) have released something called "Cargo!" which looks fairly mad and might actually be a playable game, also on Steam. I guess I'll find out when I finish portal 2-- got to Chapter 8 last night.