#morteshka

"One-Eyed Likho" ("Лихо Одноглазое") is a grim first-person horror adventure set in a world inspired by a dark, Slavic fairy tale. Explore an unsettling and twisted land set in 19th-century Russia in your endeavor to escape your own evil fate. © Steam Created by a small Russian studio "Morteshka". Highly recommended!

Бе-е... кузнец-шалопут Не уйти тебе от пут Ты лишил Лихо глаз И поплатишься сейчас

Бе-бе-бе... брызнет кровь Душу ты свою готовь Лихо очень хочет есть Это тебе-бе-бе месть

Закипит чан с водой Скоро будет пир горой Лихо станет пировать Твои косточки глотать

Бе-бе-бе бездной глаз Тьму увидишь ты сейчас Бе-бе-бе гаснет свет И тебе спасенья нет

Пока не настала ночь Убирайся путник прочь В прятки с Лихом поиграй У-бе-бе-бе-убегай!

Komi mythology is the traditional mythology of the Komi peoples of northern Russia.

The Mooseman (2017), an indie game based on indigenous Uralic mythology with huge attention to research and authenticity:

Last screenshot: bronze casts

Cette nuit, TheFrenchBat part dans les contrées slaves à la recherche d'un mythe avec son bon ami le tailleur. La forêt est sombre, les corbeaux mangent la lune et un monstre à l'oeil unique nous regarde alors que notre errance nous emmène vers notre destin. Une excellente démo d'horreur, à l'ambiance impeccable et remplie de mystère qui donne envie de découvrir la suite !

The game is about a Russian peasant girl who becomes a witch for the sake of saving her lover. In the game you will meet various Slavic spirits, talk with them, fight them and/or take them into service. The genre is a RPG/visual novel/card game (fights in the form of a card game).

Flaws:

1. The developers did not have a big budget. So that is why graphics don’t exist (models are funny). Still far landscapes are pleasant and atmospheric.

2. Some of the English-speaking gamers in Steam are talking that it’s difficult to understand and follow all the lore in the game. But still they like it so just be ready for tons of text about folklore, believes, terminology, religion stuff and etc.

Merits:

1. There are English subs and dubs (but I recommend Russian voices).

2. The game is based on the Russian folklore and a bit of Finno-Ugric (since Perm Region is also a home for Finno-Ugric people). There is a lot of information. If you interested in Russian folklore you MUST play it :)

3. It’s interesting and atmospheric. And that’s not just my opinion :)

4. You can meet demons who possess samovars, speaking demon-cats, depressed demons who is sad because their masters forgot them, demons who want to bring progress to common people, demons who torture sinners... and  you can play with all of them in the card game (well most of them). You can help common people or curse them. You can befriend a soldier with pyrophobia, a cat-domovoi, a speaking head... Why yall still don’t play it?

There is a free demo version, try it if you are not sure: Black Book: Prologue

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