What are some interesting games made by europeans?
What are some interesting games made by europeans?
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The Daedalic adventure games like Deponia or Edna and Harvey: The Breakout
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Deep Rock Galactic is a great co-op or Bosco player game made in Denmark
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Disco Elysium is Estonian (though, IIRC, owned by corporate predators who forced its creators out of their own universe)
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Baba Is You is Finnish (and hands down the best puzzle game ever).
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STALKER and STALKER 2 are made by a Ukrainian studio.
STALKER 2 had a difficult development finish due to the war breaking out, half the studio had to evacuate to Romania, the other half stayed and took care of the servers before the data could be migrated. A lot of the devs got drafted (one was actually joining stand-ups from his trench on the frontline, whenever he could).
The release was shaky, but a friend tells me that right now the game is excellent. And they're still patching and improving it!
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Adding on to this: Metro 2033 is also made by a Ukrainian Studio and published by Austrian publisher Deep Silver.
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If you like factory building games you might like Satisfactory (swedish).
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Don't forget the Kingdom Come series.
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- Valheim
- Enshrouded
- No Mans Sky
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Paradox Interactive has many strategy games that span from Roman times all the way to the present. The more well-known ones include Hearts of Iron IV (HOI4), Europa Universalis IV (EU4)—with the next installment in development—and Victoria 3 (Vic3), among others.
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A lot of good games are EU based thankfully:
- Factorio (old but goody): Czech Republic
- Police simulator: Patrol Officer. Strange game with mediocre quality and plays in a US setting,but is made in Germany.
- The witcher series is polish
- Arma series is Czech
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Factorio might have come out in 2013 (alpha), but 1.0 came out in 2020, and they recently had a major expansion called Space Age.
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Btw, iirc The Witcher is from CD Projekt, the same ones that made Cyberpunk77, and they also
are partnered withmade GOG.-
CDPR is not partnered with GOG, they made GOG before making any games in 1994 and still own it
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shapez and shapez 2 from Germany
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Since you're asking for interesting I will skip some obvious ones that you likely already know.
Deliver Us the Moon & Deliver us Mars, puzzle games made in The Netherlands. You might also recognize one of the voices if you've played Baldur's Gate 3.
Last Train Home, tactical strategy game made by a Czech (afaik) studio.
Stray, puzzle game where you play as a cat made by a French studio.
If I think of more I will add them later :)
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Cross Code is a pixel action RPG made by a German studio that was pretty well-received!
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I love Cross code. For me it is for classic SNES action adventures what shovel knight was for platformers. It feels like the old games feel in our memory but with very modern technology and game design.
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Helldivers 2 is made by Arrowhead a swedish developer
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Minecraft - Sweden, Cyberpunk 2077 - Poland, THE FINALS - Sweden, Ultrakill - Finland, Forza Horizon 5 - UK, Hunt: Showdown - Germany, Into The Radius 1/2 - Estonia (and I think Ukraine too?).
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The Anno series:
You build on islands. make an economy, provide your peoples needs Go to different regions to set up cities there where these cultures need different needs than the starting one and you manage the trade routes.
They also always tackle different things
In 2070 they tackle climat change and heavy corperatism 1404 religiouse fanatism 1701 colonialism And the new one 207 seems to be tackling Assimilation and coexistance of culture
Settlers is also european and its a little build up strategie game
Hearts of iron, crusader kings, europa universalis, stellaris, imperator rome (RIP), all strategie games set in different times by paradox interactive. They are fun...but the company behind it is a greedy money hungry shit stain. Adhorent pricing, putting vital core mechanics into DLCs. If they run out to make money on expanding, well you lose the DLC you paid for because now its integrated into the base game without compensation or 'thanks'
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Steam World Dig 2
One of my favorite games. It even got funding from the European Union. It's developed by the Swedish studio Image & Form (now Thunderful Development)
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Everspace 2. The first one was kind of a rouge like but the second feels very reminiscent of Freelancer with a bit of a smaller scope. Something that all the other space games of the last years failed to deliver.
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Well, Finnish game dev apparently topped the list of wealthiest companies a few years ago. Which is kind of funny with national gambling government monopoly.
The ones randomly on top of my head are
- Angry birds
- Liero
- Luanti
- Noita
- My summer car
- Ultrakill
There was also Finnish armi simulator recently, on the national news, they said it was quite a popular thing on Steam and such, but I haven't seen it for myself neither remember the name.
Also, need to note that Stalker is totally european!
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Supraland, Supraworld, and Supraland: Six Inches Under are German made and my favorite games of all time and I've played literally thousands since the 80s.
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Try Daedalic studio games if you care about the adventure genre.
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Keep in mind that Deadalic is nowadays only a publisher and doesn't do games anymore...because of golum... Their past games are recommended for sure.
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Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness is a slightly obscure CRPG from Hungary / Austria Coridden is a very unique ARPG from Sweden If you are willing to slightly stretch your definition of european you can also get the IMO best two CRPGs on the market Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous and Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader from Owlcat which have their headquarter in Cyprus, but if I understand correctly most of the actual development happens in Armenia.
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Milestone, creators of screamer and many official MotoGP games was, and probably still is, Italian
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- Chained Echoes which is an indie jprg from germany. Nothing much to say, it's a quite good story based rpg
And The Game Bakers is a studio in france (to be fair the team is international) that has done games like:
- haven, a rpg you play a couple, standed on a planed. It's about their relationship and how to go on
- fury, very exhausting game, you just fight bosses after bosses, so it's just a technical game about battles, but kind of addicting...but you will probably lose a lot
You could also add Clair Obscure: Expedition 33 to the list which got a lot of hype this year
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I really liked Mutazione! Made by an indiedev in, I think, the Netherlands. It has a very unique vibe to it with great world building~
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I'm Romanian and know that this game is definitely made here https://store.steampowered.com/app/1239080/Door_Kickers_2_Task_Force_North/
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Carmageddon was created by the British studio Stainless Games. Not just European, but also part of the EU back in the days.
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The CD Project Red Games from Poland (Witcher, Cyberpunk 2077) should be well known.
Anno and Wreckfest are German. As well as one of my favourite games, Suzerain.
From Austria: Ori and the Blind Forest / Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Moon Studios)
From Sweden: Valheim (Irongate Studios) Satisfactory (Coffee Stain Studios) Helldivers 2 (Arrowhead - published by Sony) And of course Paradox Grand Strategy Games
From Finland: Cities:Skylines 1 & 2
From Italy: Assetto Corsa (Kunos Simulazioni)
From Belgium: Baldurs Gate 3 & Divinity (Larian Studios)
From Denmark: Hitman games (IO)
IO is also making a new Bond game and there's a gameplay video on YouTube
EA DICE(creators of Battlefield) is based in Sweden. EA Gothenburg(aka Ghost Games), creators of the Need for Speed games are also based in Sweden. Funcom, creators of Dune Awakening are swedish.
Avalanche Studios, creators of Just Cause games, are based in Sweden. Mojang, creators of Minecraft are swedish too. Frictional Games, creators of Amnesia and Soma are swedish. Fatshark, creators of Warhammer 40k Darktide are swedish.
It is important to note that nowadays, games are developed by devs all over the world, especially AAA games. But there are a lot of game devs based in Sweden.