For Hjalte Tagmose and Gustaw Mackay, the frustration started with mislabelled food in The Witcher. “The pierogi is called a dumpling,” says Tagmose. “It’s like calling sushi a rice sandwich,” adds Mackay. Now, these two Polonophiles are determined to counter the Americanisation of games by creating, in their words “the least American game possible”.
The result is Szrot. “It’s a Polish word,” says Mackay. “You have to know how to do the rolling, trilling R. It can mean junkyard, or it can also just refer to an old, beat-up car.”
That’s fitting, since Szrot is a driving game about steering jalopies around post-Soviet cities. One in which even the countdown to a race is written in Croatian and translated in subtitles – as if in the opening credits of a foreign language film. It’s reflective of the Danish developers’ fondness for Eastern European cinema, which began with the cult Russian neo-noir Brat, before extending to more esoteric movies from Poland.
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BITING BACK
The tooth is out there in adventure TEETH OF GLASS
SMOKE ALARM
THE INVISIBLE SMOKE FACTORY is back in a Flash
MECH ME OVER
Move over Mario, here's mech-based platforming in ARMORED SHELL NIGHTJAR
"I like Pillars of Eternity better than Baldur's Gate III"
PILLARS OF ETERNITY deserves a bigger space in the CRPG pantheon
"A harrowing dark fantasy about hapless, bright-eyed children"
Spelunking into hell with MADE IN ABYSS: BINARY STAR FALLING INTO DARKNESS
THE IMMORTAL LOCK
A massive, meaty game in a single horrific Quake map.
NEW MANOEUVRES
Building a dedicated sim racing space in an average family house
OVERWATCH 2
Save me space girl.
REET GOOD TIME
THANK GOODNESS YOU'RE HERE is a riotous recreation of Yorkshire
THE PLUCKY SQUIRE
How many games let you make friends with a MtG card?