Trending games in Eastern Europe

No matter what the “burners” say, Easterm Europe does not lag behind in the field of computer entertainment development. What are they, the games of patriots and their creators?

The Easterm European computer game industry has a long and rich history, the community of game developers includes both single freelancers and large companies known around the world. Experts estimate the Ukrainian game development market at tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars. But most gamers evaluate the work of developers on only one criterion – playability, or, in other words, how much the game can capture and not let go until the very end.

Below is a selection of the most interesting games by Easterm European developers, which should be expected in the near future or try to play right now.

GSC GAME WORLD

Veterans of Ukrainian game construction with 20 years of experience in creating games, which most gamers associate with long-term “S. T. A. L. K. E. R .: The Shadow of Chernobyl “, returned to their origins.

The historical real-time strategy “Cossacks 3”, announced in May 2015, is a large-scale remake of the first game of the series, released back in 2001.

Players can expect epic battles of a dozen armies of European countries of the XVII-XVIII centuries, carefully recreated weapons, buildings and artillery of those times. Up to 10,000 units of troops and various equipment can be involved in battles.

The third part will get most of the features inherent in modern strategies, such as a realistic physical model of artillery shells and bullets, the impact of terrain on the movement and combat capability of troops, unique naval battles.

It is noteworthy that versions of “Cossacks 3” will be released not only for Windows computers, but also for Mac OS and Linux platforms.

EAST GAMES

The company, borrowing its name from the famous Soviet spacecraft “East-1”, was founded by people from GSC Game World.

The team is slowly working on the Survarium project, repeatedly postponing the deadlines. The game belongs to the now popular genre of MMOFPS – it is a massive multiplayer shooter, but richly flavored with elements borrowed from role-playing games.

Players must immerse themselves in the gloomy post-apocalyptic atmosphere of the near future, where the remnants of civilization survived fighting for the remnants of resources and artifacts generated by anomalous phenomena unknown to science.

The game has a huge amount of weapons and equipment, as well as a system of skills that directly affects the style of play.

Survarium belongs to the category of free-to-play, which means that anyone can play it, but to achieve a significant advantage over other players can only spend real money on the purchase of game resources.

FLYING CAFE FOR SEMIANIMALS

The game studio, whose creative team consists of only four, was founded in Kyiv in 2011. In the summer of 2015, the development of the first and only project called “Cradle” was completed.

The game, which took almost four years, belongs to a rather rare genre of quests with a science fiction bias. To advance the plot of the player requires not only perseverance and agility, as well as well-developed abstract thinking. Unlike many quests, the game has a minimum of characters and only three locations.

Strong emphasis is placed on the hero’s relationship with a mechanical girl, some philosophical aspects of “Cradle” make you think seriously, this is one of the few projects far from the mainstream.

The game is distributed through the Steam digital distribution service.

PERSHA STUDIA

The studio is one of the veterans of the development of Ukrainian computer games. The company has more than 15 years of experience in outsourcing development and collaboration with such giants as Activision, Electronic Arts or Disney.

Persha Studia players are more familiar with working with the famous Belarusian company Wargaming.

The first global project of the studio – aviation IMO – action “World of Warplanes”. Mass air battles using almost all known models of the era of motor aviation have become a logical addition to ground battles in the “World of Tanks”. The game is constantly replenished with various additions and innovations. Thus, in honor of April 1, players had the opportunity to try out the classic “flying saucer” of aliens.

The online browser card game “World of Tanks Generals” is based on the historical battles of the Second World War. To some extent, the game is an export product, because the culture of card games, with the exception of “stupid” and preference, is almost not developed in the post-Soviet space.