The Stalin Subway

Adorable and entirely dysfunctional slavjank title. Neither the original game 'Metro-2' nor its Steam release deserve praise, as you have to install a patch and tinker with the settings to even start a new game. If you actually manage to, you'll find inside: weird bespoke engine made just for this game it feels like that has broken movement and allows for uncapped velocity bunnyhopping; annoying gunplay with some creative liberties taken like similating felt recoil by forcibly jerking the player's camera around (!) and the complete defiance of single-fire on automatic weapons; samey boring enemies and environments as the game takes place almost entirely in the Moscow metro (read: long plain hallways and copypasted trains and station); a poorly-understood and at times hilariously inept translation from the original Russian that probably helped no English-speaking player understand what is even going on. And also the game makes you play a 'good' NKVD officer shooting down hordes of 'bad' NKVD officers and Soviet Red Army soldiers, so your milage may vary. It suffices to say that this released in the same year as F.E.A.R and Battlefield 2.

Doesn't work on modern hardware.

плохо

Fun fact: despite the name 'Stalin Subway', there's no sandwiches in this game."

This game is so bad that it becomes somehow good

The Stalin Subway is a story-driven first-person shooter developed by Orion Games and published on Steam by ESDigital Games. Originally released in the mid-2000s and later reintroduced to modern digital platforms, the game stands out primarily for its unusual historical setting. Rather than focusing on futuristic warfare or contemporary military conflicts, it transports players to Moscow in the early 1950s during the final years of Joseph Stalin’s rule. The narrative blends Cold War paranoia, political conspiracy, and underground espionage into a campaign that explores both the famous landmarks of Soviet Moscow and the shadowy infrastructure rumored to exist beneath the city. By anchoring its gameplay in a tense period of real-world history, the game attempts to offer an experience that feels more like a political thriller than a conventional action shooter. Players take on the role of Gleb Suvorov, a loyal Soviet officer who becomes entangled in a dangerous plot involving high-ranking military officials and a hidden nuclear device. What begins as a routine investigation gradually evolves into a race against time as Suvorov uncovers a conspiracy that threatens the stability of the…