The highest-grossing games of Russian-speaking developers on Steam 2019

Last week, a list of the highest-grossing novelties of 2019 on Steam was released. It’s time to highlight titles developed or published by companies from the Russian Federation from it.

Recall that the list of box office leaders among the new titles Steam distributed by month. Among them, there were only five from Russian-speaking igrodelov. Two of them are from the publisher tinyBuild.

Desolate

Last year, Desolate was also included in the list of the highest-grossing novelties. At that time, she was going through a soft launch. The full-fledged release of the survival took place in January 2019.

The audience of the game from Neagra and HypeTrain Digital remained at the same level as during the soft launch. According to SteamSpy, 100-200 thousand users purchased the game in the store.

Desolatewhile True: learn()

In January, another Russian—language project distinguished itself – while True: learn() from Luden.io and Nival. This is an educational puzzle. Its passage helps the user to learn the basics of machine learning and neural networks.

The result of while True: learn() is 200-500 thousand players.

Note that both she and Desolate were on the list of the best for January, along with such a hit as the remake of Resident Evil 2.

while True: learn()Swag and Sorcery

Swag and Sorcery, a fantasy RPG with strategy elements, became the leaders in May. It was created by Lazy Bear Games and Uroboros Games, and published by tinyBuild.

The game was included in the same collection with titles such as Rage 2, A Plague Tale: Innocence and Total War: Three Kingdoms. Although compared to them, its audience is quite modest: 100-200 thousand users. Note that Swag and Sorcery received only 51 points on Metacritic.

Swag and SorceryIratus: Lord of the Dead

Iratus: Lord of the Dead from Unfrozen is the leader of July. We talked about the history of its development here.

The game, published by the foreign Daedalic Entertainment, is an ideological follower of Darkest Dungeon. According to SteamSpy, its audience is no more than 100 thousand players. Nevertheless, she entered the list along with the new Wolfenstein.

Iratus: Lord of the DeadSecret Neighbor

The latest game is also a tinyBuild project. Secret Neighbor refers to the Hello Neighbor horror franchise. Its developers are Hologryph and Dynamic Pixels.

The title with an audience of 100-200 thousand people was included in the list of the highest-grossing novelties for October. Among its neighbors is Disco Elysium, which recently became a four—time winner of The Game Awards.

Secret Neighbor