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
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
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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?
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.
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 : )