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Have you played Gorky 17 (1999, AKA Odium)?
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I watched someone play it
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Have you played Gorky 17 (1999, AKA Odium)?
Yes
No
I watched someone play it
I've never heard of it
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Gorky 17
Metropolis Software was perhaps the first Polish video game studio, founded in 1992 by Adrian Chmielarz and Grzegorz Miechowski, two very important figures of the Polish video game industry; Chmielarz eventually designed and directed games such as Painkiller or The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, while Miechowski co-founded 11 bit studios, who released This War of Mine and Frostpunk. Metropolis’ fourth game, Gorky 17 (1999), is perhaps their last game with a good reception; the studio produced half a dozen more games that never got great reviews, then was eventually bought then closed by compatriots CD Projekt. This horror tactical RPG was warmly received in Europe, though sales never were chart-topping; it was also released in North America as Odium, but did not make much of a splash there. The game ambled on after its initial release, getting a Macintosh port in 2002, a Linux port in 2006, and an AmigaOS port in 2015; however the Linux version distributed on Steam is incompatible with more recent flavors of Linux due to a Wine incompatibility. It is overall a very good game, one worth revisiting and a great European obscurity.
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Horror RPGs, a video by 90sgamer92
A neat video covering various horror-themed RPGs. It’s a shame that the uploader apparently has retired from doing videos, as while they’re a little rough, his videos are quite informative and touch on some under-appreciated little gems.
‘Odium’ [aka, ‘Gorky 17′]
[PC] [USA] [MAGAZINE] [1999]
Computer Gaming World, December 1999 (#185)
via CGW Museum
I've bought them the other day for 5,50€.