Games You'll Love

Curated recommendations based on Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love

Ministry of Broadcast
73% match

Ministry of Broadcast

Indie

Ministry of Broadcast is a narrative-driven single player cinematic platformer mixing Orwell’s 1984 with modern reality TV. A country divided by The Wall; to cross it and reach your family, you must compete on - and win - a reality TV show broadcast by the Regime.

Orwell: Ignorance is Strength
73% match

Orwell: Ignorance is Strength

Indie

Step into the shoes of a government official in a top-secret department of the Orwell surveillance program. Given the power to both uncover and fabricate 'the truth', how far will you go in the service of your country? Season 2 of Orwell, the award-winning surveillance thriller.

Papers, Please
71% match

Papers, Please

Indie

Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.

SHUT IN
70% match

SHUT IN

Pixel Graphics

SHUT IN is a dark comedy/psychological horror adventure game which explores depression and isolation by trapping you inside your own house. Explore a hostile home, solve puzzles, and withstand sarcasm from a rude and unreliable narrator. Idiot.

Headliner: NoviNews
69% match

Headliner: NoviNews

Indie

Award-winning adventure where you control the news and its impact on society, your friends and career. Different choices lead to unique combinations of endings. Share your story with the community, and see what the players before you did.

Impossible Quest
69% match

Impossible Quest

Indie

Very dumb adventure game about a very dumb person from a very dumb developer.

DOM RUSALOK
68% match

DOM RUSALOK

Indie

Russia in the ‘90s. A provincial town at the edge of the crumbling Soviet Empire. A group of kids faces the disturbing horror they are unable to comprehend – the DØM RUSALOK. This is a place where the worst nightmares come true.

Escape from Irene
67% match

Escape from Irene

Indie

Escape from Irene is a psychological thriller where you wake up in a mysterious place, with no memory, under the watchful eye of Irene. Explore the house, uncover its secrets, and try to escape without alerting Irene—because if she catches on, something terrible will happen.

Red Frozen
67% match

Red Frozen

Indie

Red Frozen is a game that embodies all the stereotypes about Russia and even a little more. Here you can ask your neighbor for a Kalashnikov assault rifle, tame a bear and play the balalaika!

Insanity Ice
66% match

Insanity Ice

Indie

You are an ordinary employee of a research laboratory. One of your workdays becomes a horror. Suddenly a nightmare happens and now you have to survive and figure out what's going on here...

Section Six
66% match

Section Six

Indie

You're an employee of the Section Six that handles postal censorship. Outside the window is an alternative Russia of the late 19th — early 20th century. Write reports accusing both the guilty and the innocent, steal things, break lives... or not...

Heroes Of Maidan 3: Crimean Battle
66% match

Heroes Of Maidan 3: Crimean Battle

Indie

Take part in the liberation of the occupied territories of the Crimean peninsula

Sovietpunk: Chapter one
66% match

Sovietpunk: Chapter one

Indie

Sovietpunk is a cyberpunk story set in the setting of the Soviet Union after a global nuclear war. You have to guide the main character through the gloomy tunnels, in which the struggle for life is in full swing.

One Eyed Kutkh
66% match

One Eyed Kutkh

Casual

One-Eye Kutkh - an exciting space adventure based on the fairy tales of the Far North.

Charon's Staircase
65% match

Charon's Staircase

Indie

In this first-person horror mystery game, you set out to bury the horrible past of a tyrannical government. Retrieve and destroy the documents that unravel the secrets that lie beneath Oack Grove. Will you discover the terrifying truth and find your way out?

PROXIMATE
65% match

PROXIMATE

Singleplayer

Congratulations, contractor! You've been approved to trial our cutting-edge AI visor. Use it to explore the Neuras lab and recover the staff's research. Your visor is safe, reliable, and up to 99% accurate. Just don't ask why the 'ketchup' in the corner makes such a horrible crunching sound.

Someday You'll Return: Director's Cut
65% match

Someday You'll Return: Director's Cut

Indie

How far would you go if your daughter didn’t come home? Someday You’ll Return: Director’s Cut is a first-person psychological horror. This story-driven game offers enhanced features, an improved story, and additional content. Enter the woods if you dare and begin a search you’ll never forget.

Magnetic: Cage Closed
64% match

Magnetic: Cage Closed

Indie

Magnetic: Cage Closed is a first person puzzle game where the player manipulates magnetic forces to accomplish their goals. The mechanics are focused around a single tool: The Magnet Gun which allows you to create electromagnetic fields with either positive or negative charges.

Escape to Moscow
63% match

Escape to Moscow

Indie

A story about a guy, a girl he met, and their adventure. Freelance IT specialist Semyon meet a girl from Dagestan on the Internet. However, their relationship quickly grow over the regular chatting - he decides to help her run away from home. That is how their amazing adventure begins.

Satellite Odyssey: Prologue
63% match

Satellite Odyssey: Prologue

Retro

Satellite odyssey: Рrologue - is a short first-person story-driven adventure with horror elements.Immerse yourself in the atmosphere of classic science fiction and retro futurism, inspired by Soviet sci-fi films. Your partner is the artificial intelligence 'Zarya,'

Machinika Museum
62% match

Machinika Museum

Indie

Welcome to the Museum! Machinika Museum is a mystery game where you discover beautiful and mysterious machines of extra-terrestrial origins in an atmospheric galaxy-spanning 3D puzzle game. Will you be able to understand their stories and discover what happened to their previous owner?

Karaski: What Goes Up...
62% match

Karaski: What Goes Up...

Indie

An immersive sim-lite in a fictional historical setting. You are on the world's first airship about to crash down and have to find the culprit. Sneak around, break into cabins, interrogate passengers, find evidence - but be careful not to incriminate yourself!

D3AD HAND
62% match

D3AD HAND

Indie

Point and click comedy adventure game set during the cold war in a soviet bunker. Crack the code, feed the cat, save the world.

Super Intern Story
62% match

Super Intern Story

2D

Super Intern Story is a fun little adventure about working as a monster in a video game. Wear different costumes, get slain by heroes all while getting yelled at by your boss! Discover the joys of working behind the scene — as an unpaid intern in the game industry!

Spud Customs
62% match

Spud Customs

Pixel Graphics

Forced to serve as a border officer, you inspect documents and decide the fate of potatoes. When the ones you reject try to storm your checkpoint, you'll need to defend it with missiles! Each choice tests you. Will you follow the cruel rules, or risk everything to help innocent potatoes escape?

Svoboda 1945: Liberation
61% match

Svoboda 1945: Liberation

Singleplayer

Svoboda 1945: Liberation is a unique adventure game featuring dialogues with real actors. Talk to witnesses of the chaotic aftermath of World War 2 and discover the secret history of your own family in a captivating story about reconciliation with the dark past.

Time Guard - The Red Menace
61% match

Time Guard - The Red Menace

2D

A time-traveling detective, a brain-hacking device called the Speakbreaker, and a mad plan to make the whole world speak only Russian. Solve absurd puzzles, meet bizarre characters, and rewrite history itself in this comedy point-and-click adventure.

Soviet Village
61% match

Soviet Village

Indie

A deadly search for a grandmother in the village. Can you escape the loop? Unpredictable horror.

Imaginaria
61% match

Imaginaria

Indie

Imaginaria is both a night watch and the night watcher. It's a military term, supposedly coming from Latin, Imaginarius: relative to a mental figure. Perhaps because under Imaginaria duty the mind likes to wander too. Here in Antarctica we do them since the incident. And tonight I am Imaginaria.

Mythargia
61% match

Mythargia

Indie

You are a journalist in search of your breakthrough story. A promising lead takes you to the abandoned island of Mythargia where you have to discover its buried history connecting two different dimensions.

My Beautiful Paper Smile
61% match

My Beautiful Paper Smile

Indie

Welcome, child, to your new home. Here you shall learn the art of perfection. Here you shall learn to smile. Be sure that smile doesn’t fade into sadness, or you will need to run and hide…

Code Brown
61% match

Code Brown

2D

While the plebeians are waiting for Untitled Goose Game in Steam, the real patricians are already playing Code Brown! What?! Somebody wants to crap but the only one toilet room is closed! Wait, what is it?.. Fine, that pan with a fresh soup will be acceptable.

PrisonShow
61% match

PrisonShow

Indie

A short story of tyranism and little bit optimisim. A contest for her mostly freedom.

FREE DUROV
60% match

FREE DUROV

Comedy

FREE DUROV – Dive into the most meme-worthy horror game. Experience the hardships of prison life and try to escape by securing the encryption keys. Save anonymity!

Insights - Maniac Vortex
60% match

Insights - Maniac Vortex

Indie

An old school point and click adventure game in a nostalgic pixelart look. Young journalist Thomas wants to write a newspaper article about the psychatric asylum in the small town Fuchsberg. Not knowing yet that he will be going on a great adventure leading to the greatest article of his life.

IFU
60% match

IFU

Singleplayer

IFU is a psychological horror about a young guy who is forcibly locked in an abandoned mansion of a dead surgeon along with his restless soul.

Obviously Inappropriate Content
60% match

Obviously Inappropriate Content

Indie

Start your career as a game censor and make inappropriate things right.

They're Alive!
60% match

They're Alive!

Action

You are a simple provincial engineer eager to change his worthless life. What could be a better place to start everything anew than Moscow where everyone can find some way to earn for a living? But things there are not as easy as you thought…

Cold Iron - Quick Draw Western Duels
60% match

Cold Iron - Quick Draw Western Duels

Indie

Wild West fast draw with a twist. Dance with the deadliest duelists in the world's first virtual reality puzzle shooter. Cold Iron is created exclusively for VR.

IDIOT
60% match

IDIOT

Singleplayer

Utopian island. Calm and happy life. Food is synthesized from cartridges. The night comes at your will. And you don't care about life outside the island. You know exactly what is bad there - this is what the state said, and it is always right.

Putin Life
60% match

Putin Life

Indie

Putin Life - a game that allows you to feel not only the leader of the Russian Federation, but perhaps the Lord of the world.Rob, steal, enslave.

Iron Sky: A Lunar Adventure
59% match

Iron Sky: A Lunar Adventure

Casual

You find yourself on the Moon in a downed flying saucer wearing a cracked space-suit helmet, under the watchful eye of Obergruppenführer Gruber of the Fourth Reich. One thing is certain: you don't belong here.

Peace Data
59% match

Peace Data

Indie

Peace Data — hard 'Roguelike' game, in which you have to play for Bitard, saving Rusland from the tyranny of the authorities that destroyed the opposition and led the country to ruin, making slaves of citizens.

Ossuary
59% match

Ossuary

Indie

Fall into the place of bones. Urge on the stagnant residents who are lost to corrupt virtue. Use sins as your tools to improve their existence. Expose the cabbages pretending to be people. Learn about the razor blades hidden in your walls.

Major\Minor
58% match

Major\Minor

Indie

A highly engaging visual novel, with memorable characters and multiple endings. Traverse worlds, solve a murder mystery -- and partake in political revolution. Inspired by greats such as Steins;Gate, Tales of Symphonia, Persona 4 and Future Diary. An unforgettable science-fiction/fantasy adventure!

My Cute Commissar
58% match

My Cute Commissar

Indie

☭My Cute Commissar☭ – satyrical historical visual novel with “match-3” type of gameplay. Take part in the political struggle in the 1920’s communist Russia and prevent Stalin’s tyranical rule!

Isolania
58% match

Isolania

Indie

A plague called 'The Sadness' has devastated civilization. A mysterious society rose from the ashes, deciding the only way to protect its citizens is to confine them in cells. There are 3 Edicts governing this new civilization: Stay in your cell. Watch television. Never talk about the outside.

Matryoshka Strike
57% match

Matryoshka Strike

Indie

Matryoshka Strike is a stylish and colorful shoot-em-up game with the classic characters of Russian fairy tales. Koshchey the Immortal, Baba-Yaga, Dragon Gorynych and others. And of course, Matryoshka.

Mosaic Chronicles
57% match

Mosaic Chronicles

Indie

Listen carefully, my friend – and I shall tell you the story of courage, love, luck ... and the importance of reading skills! Move and rotate pieces of stained glass to complete mosaics and uncover the story in Mosaic Chronicles, a story-driven puzzle game.

The Island of Thugs
56% match

The Island of Thugs

Action

Welcome to the isalnd of thugs. This tropical island is a secret military base of Russian PMC. You are a Special Agent who must find the leader of PMC and eliminate him. Take the gun and let's go!