Bylina

The trailer was amazing. The gameplay is poor and doesn't quite work: I'm playing on my tv and can't read the text displayed. The combat is tap attack to win while having absolutely no weight to it. The creatures launch across the screen also as if they're using a blink spell. It's totally disappointing.

Fun little game that doesn't take itself too seriously. I love the atmosphere and the graphics. For the price I think it is definitely worth it. There are rough edges but I think it makes up for it in style. It could use some fleshing out but it never crashed on me and from a technical perspective it ran just fine for me (5080, 64 gb ram). I liken it to a B movie that has a lot of heart. I hope we get to see more of this world in the future.

I finished the game in 10 hours after doing all the optional side quests along with the main story. Speaking of story, this one - as an American - is just so strange. The plot and humor are from Russian devs or folklore or something and does not translate well, but I didnt play the game for the plot. The puzzles in the game are my favorite part. They are all different each time and some are really tricky. The combat is okay, nothing super stand out. It gets the job done. Boss designs are all pretty cool. Gore creatures from hell. The bow and arrow, which is needed for combat and puzzles, has limited shots and you cannot create more arrows. You have to find special trees around the world to refill, but there arent that many, so i think the bow needs some reworking. It isnt an overpowered weapon, so why limit it so much? Anyways, this game reminded me of Diablo 1 or Titan Quest, and i really liked it for the most part. If you want a short game with a strange fever dream plot, then you will like this.

Berry nice slavic-cut up-acid-trip down another cultures lane. Also I have a boat.

to keep it short: this crap is not worth the price, not even close repetitive and boring

I wanted to give this game a fair chance and I usually don't quit a game midway. But there are to many downpoints. Game starts in russian, no choice, no settings on the steam page. It's not that hard to figure where the ooption menu and language choice are, but that is already a problem people complained about and that was not corrected since launch. Lore seems interesting, but mostly thrown at you without explanation. I get it's a russian game with classic folklore references, but it could be good to add a bit of context for the rest of the world (good example is Svarog's Dream). Graphics are confusing at best. The adition of small "doodles" might have seem a good idea, but it's often cluttering the fight scenes. Fights are a mess. Timings are a pain because hits don't match with animation. The double controls (movement direction and attack direction) are confusing af, especially because the mouse pointer is hidden in the aforementionned cluttering. Some chests open, other don't. Some equipement sets activate a special effect, other don't. Some loot appears as picked up, but are not in the inventory. You sometimes get stuck and are force to relaod a previous save. …