There are a lot of projects coming out on Steam and it’s easy to get lost in their background. The recent Russian indie project Sanya went almost unnoticed
At the beginning of March 2024, the game “Sanyok” (or Sanya in English localization) was released on Steam. This is an indie project from helpnode, which acts as both a developer and a publisher.
Sometimes they wrote about the Sanyok project online before the release, but all this was not enough to attract There are many players in the project. Judging by SteamDB data, the record peak online over the weekend on the Valve service was 33 players.
The “Sanyok” project is positioned as an adventure game about “t a bunch of fleeting childhood memories: about a boy named Sanyok, rescuing a homeless puppy, first real friends and exciting yard adventures in a small post-Soviet town in the 90s~60s~/em>”.
Those who played “Sanyok” leave rave reviews. At the time of publication there are a little more than 10 of them, with a rating of 100%. The project is described as a linear “short quest”, in which sometimes there are choices, as they say in one of the reviews, that can influence the plot:
“…For example , buy the wrong amount of white and brown bread in a store, or promise chewing gum to a local eccentric and then not give it back. Or choose a paper or metal tag for the dog’s name.”
You can get acquainted with the game “Sanyok” on Steam via the link, a free demo version is available.
Trailer “Sanyok”: https://youtu.be/4hN6tpXCAkc
