Loving these videos about Slavic shovelware games of the early 2000’s and I can’t wait for the book they’re building up to. I stumbled into this when I was researching early Czech games and then wandered into reading about bizarre Russian and Crimean treasure hunters and associated weird slav worldbuilding/conspiracy theory/alternate reality fictions. This stuff wasn’t part of my original thesis writing but its been slowly creeping in to the stuff I’ve been writing since, because this sort of werid magic-circle alternate past stuff exemplifies the politicized, luddic, grey-zone-horizon between history and fantasy that I’m interested in lately.
