Usually, when it comes to Ukrainian games, most people think of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Metro series. However, Ukrainians have created many other projects that also have their own audience and generate income for their authors.
Forbes compiled the TOP 10 most popular games developed in Ukraine and analyzed how much money they brought in. The rating includes projects that are created by Ukrainians (the entire development team or the vast majority of them are Ukrainians), are released on PC, have sold more than 100 thousand copies, and continue to be sold as of the moment of the rating creation. Importantly, the rights to the game must not be owned by citizens of the Russian Federation, and the development company must not be from Russia or Belarus.
The games in the list are arranged by the number of copies sold – from the most to the least sold.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is a series of first-person shooter games with elements of survival horror and role-playing games. The game takes place in our time, in an alternate world in Ukraine, in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
Metro is a series of games that combines the genres of survival horror and first-person shooter, based on the novel by Russian writer Dmitry Glukhovsky «Metro 2033». The story takes place in a post-apocalyptic Moscow subway inhabited by mutants.
Sherlock Holmes is a series of adventure detective games based on the works of English writer Arthur Conan Doyle, but they are independent stories.
Cossacks is a real-time historical strategy game set in the wars of the 16th and 18th centuries in Europe.
Party Hard and Party Hard 2 are stealth games with strategy elements in which the player has to stop a noisy party by killing the guests.
Bigfoot is a first-person cooperative horror game in which the player will have to search for and hunt Bigfoot, a mystical mammal that looks like a great ape.
The Sinking City is an open-world adventure puzzle game based on the works of American horror author Howard Lovecraft. Private detective Charles Reed arrives in the city to investigate mysterious events.
Tukoni: Prologue is a point-and-click adventure game based on the books by Lviv-based writer and illustrator Oksana Bula. The story centers on a book character named Tukoni the Traveler. As he travels through the forest, he helps various local animals, solving puzzles and exploring locations to find the necessary items.
Ostriv is an urban strategy game created in 2014 by an anonymous indie developer from Kharkiv. The player takes charge of an 18th-century Ukrainian city and develops it.
Cliff Empire is an urban planning strategy in which it is necessary to develop cities located on the tops of cliffs on the Earth affected by radiation.
Source: Forbes