External Discovery
7 indie games in this list, released 2009–2022, from developers such as Liquid Pug, Lapovich Team, Aterdux Entertainment. Pick one to read our editorial note and jump to its store page.
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By Liquid Pug · Belarus
Godlike Burger is a darkly comic restaurant management game set in space. You run an eatery for alien customers and secretly dispatch some of them in creative ways, turning them into ingredients for the menu while keeping the rest coming back. Steam lists it as simulation and strategy. It was developed by Liquid Pug, a studio from Belarus, and published by Daedalic Entertainment in April 2022 for Windows, Mac and Linux.
By Lapovich Team · Belarus
Kapital: Sparks of Revolution is an economic simulation about class conflict. You serve as mayor of a capital city in a European country gripped by crisis, balancing policy against growing social unrest and deciding what compromises are worth making to avoid collapse. Steam lists it under simulation and strategy. It was developed by Lapovich Team from Belarus and released by Fulqrum Publishing in April 2022.
By Aterdux Entertainment · Belarus
Legends of Eisenwald is a tactical role-playing game for one player that also draws on adventure and strategy genres. It was developed and published by Aterdux Entertainment, a studio from Belarus, after a successful Kickstarter campaign helped fund it. The game entered early access in October 2013 and received its official Steam release on July 2, 2015.
By Apus Software, Three Donkeys LLC · Belarus
Spectromancer is a turn-based fantasy card game about magical duels. Rather than building a deck in advance, each player receives twenty random cards across five elements, gains mana in every element each turn and plays one card per turn until one side's life falls to zero. It was developed by Apus Software, a studio from Belarus, with Three Donkeys LLC, designed with input from Magic: The Gathering creator Richard Garfield, and released in 2008.
By Lapovich Team · Belarus
State of Anarchy: Master of Mayhem is a casual action game that combines bullet hell shooting with reckless driving through a town in chaos, with aliens attacking from above. Steam categorizes it as action, casual and indie. The Belarusian developer Lapovich Team made and self-published it, releasing it in March 2017 for Windows, Mac and Linux. Beyond that premise, few further gameplay details are verified.
By Weappy Studio · Belarus
This Is the Police 2 mixes story-driven adventure with strategy, putting you in charge of a small-town sheriff's department. You assign officers to incidents, make difficult calls and fight turn-based tactical encounters while the returning protagonist, now living as Warren Nash, hides from federal agents in the fictional town of Sharpwood in 1987. It is a sequel from Belarusian developer Weappy Studio, published by THQ Nordic in 2018.
By Weappy Studio · Belarus
This Is the Police is a strategy adventure from the Belarusian studio Weappy Studio. You play Jack Boyd, a police chief in the fictional city of Freeburg who has 180 days left before a corrupt mayor forces him into retirement. Each day you assign officers to emergencies and investigations, while the story pulls you into crime and corruption along the way.