Trying to remember strange Russian (?) RPG Maker game

nilson's picture

oh man it's 5 am and i've been up all night trying to find this game:

it's an rpg maker game that's pretty strange (either inspired by Space Funeral or inspired by the stuff Space Funeral might be inspired by)

it's probably not really Russian, but a lot of NPCs throw around the term 'gulag'

this is what i remember from the game: you start in a dysfunctional town and you can get a boat and travel west to either a graveyard or like a spooky cave or something. there's rpgm battling, but it's a real short game. it's very gray? I remember a lot of dead trees...

i probably played it around 2012 or 2013. the pc partition on my macbook that i played it on was deleted years ago.

please help a sad sack like me out im so tired :o

Noyb's picture

These don't fully match, but

These don't fully match, but I'm putting them down here just in case something jogs your memory:

Don't Talk To Them - matches palette, dysfunctional town

A Fortune in Gold - matches Russian theming, dead forest, graveyard. might also be another of their games, but I'm not familiar enough with their work to say for sure.

OFF - has a boat scene, but probably too long/involved to be the game you described

nilson's picture

! ! !

Oh my god i've been refreshing this page every five hours for two weeks and YES it IS A Fortune in Gold

I'm so thankful, this has been driving me crazy.

I... I think I love you <3

EDIT: can you tell me anything about this game's history and who made it?

Noyb's picture

Glad I could help! I

Glad I could help!

I believe that Terry Cavanagh was the one who initially stumbled onto their work shortly before I was part of FreeIndieGam.es, and that they originally took the name of John Candy. No idea if the dev has a presence outside of Gamejolt, and I don't feel comfortable digging further.

nilson's picture

Oh yeahh I must've seen it

Oh yeahh I must've seen it on freeindiegam.es way back when it was posted!

Thanks a lot : )