Some Russian games continue to delight gamers to this day.
Recently, the Western publication PC Gamer wrote about the Russian role-playing game "Zlatogorye", which is not known to all gamers. In the English-speaking environment, the project is known as Heath: The Unchosen Path or GoldenLand.
This is a non-standard fantasy game: instead of typical orcs and elves, players are expected to find Russian mythology, characters like Gromoboy (a bogatyr), and as an antagonist — a centuries-old evil, black deity Drah-Shu.
The author of PC Gamer notes elements in the spirit of Baldur's Gate and Fallout in the game "Zlatogorye":
What is particularly striking about GoldenLand is how organically these motifs are combined with the influence of Western CRPGs, the imprint of which is felt in the work of developers of such games. Creating a character in GoldenLand is like "Baldur’s Gate" on a budget. You choose a class or create your own, set the gender — and go ahead, into a game that feels like a mixture of BG, Fallout and Arcanum (however, the latter did not influence it, since it was released in the same year). Battles are a kind of dance of managing action points: your own and those of your opponents, calculating the ideal sequence of moves, allowing you to strike and move far enough away so that enemies spend all their points hobbling towards you. Well, you get the idea — just like in Fallout.
Although "Zlatogorye" is a very "budget" project — "The animations look choppy, the battles can be unfair, even the fonts seem a bit out of place — simple black with serifs" — players are offered an interesting combination of Orthodox motifs, Russian epics, and RPG mechanics.
Recently, a fan remake of "Cursed Lands: Zamevju" was released.
