Made in Ukraine: Ukrainian games 2023
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- 11 Apr 2023
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Once upon a time, back in the days of the printed magazines Home PC and Gameplay, we made materials from the “Made in Ukraine” series almost every year, dedicated to games from domestic studios that were under development. At one time, this is how we were one of the first in the world to write about Cossacks, Oblivion Lost, which later became S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Xenus, Collapse, Cryostasis, Vivisector and other cool Ukrainian games.
Usually, it took about two months to prepare such material, during which half of the editorial team, or even two of them, went to visit the developers, watched yet unannounced games, chatted, and asked tricky questions. But now, when almost all contacts of developers with journalists are controlled by PR departments, or even individual PR agencies, this is impossible, at least if it concerns large studios.
And now everything is difficult with offices. A lot of developers work remotely and never even meet in real life, some have moved to other cities or even abroad due to hostilities. And everything is still not well with electricity. So let’s postpone face-to-face visits to the developers for “after the victory”, and now let’s just see what Ukrainian games should be released in 2023.
If you think that all Ukrainian gamedev is limited to S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl, Sherlock Holmes The Awakened and World of Warplane, you are very wrong. We have a lot of interesting games in development – both small indie projects with experimental game mechanics, and huge A- and even AAA-hits, which are developed by hundreds of people in several countries.
Using our own database and information collected by the Steam curator “Ukrainian games” (380+ domestic games, impressive work, thanks to colleagues from PlayUA!), we counted more than 90 Ukrainian games under development. And we’re talking only about PC and console projects! Despite the full-scale war, the Ukrainian game industry is experiencing a new boom and after the victory, we will definitely see even more cool Ukrainian games, including about the events of 2022-2023.
For this material, we have chosen only those games that have already managed to be released within the first two months of 2023, or those that have a clearly indicated release date of 2023 in the description. First, the list is sorted by release date, then alphabetically. Read More…
