High-budget RPG in the series “The Publican” books is made in Poland – review

The Polish gaming industry and Polish fantasy literature are once again going to come together as one. After CD Projekt RED made a series of “The witcher»World famous studio The dust announced a game I, the Inquisitor based on the cycle of Jacek Pekara. And now it’s the turn of science fiction writer Michal Golkovsky.
Independent Polish Studio Silen signed an agreement with Golkovsky to create a high-budget role-playing game based on his most successful book cycle Komornik (“Publican”). The game is due out in 2023.

Michal Golkovsky began his literary work with the novel “Lead Dawn” in the Universe S.T.A.L.K.E.R., and he launched the publishing cycle Fabryczna zona. In 2015, the first two books of the series “PublishedSteel rats“, An alternative history of soldiers of the First World War. And in 2016, a series of biblical apocalyptic fiction Komornik started.

The world of the “Publican” cycle is full of absurdity and black humor. The end of the world began, but could not end: it turned out that there are much more people on Earth than those listed in ancient registers, you can escape from the rider of the Apocalypse on a motorcycle, no one believes in the advertising promises of paradise life, and soul collectors strive to deceive and hold.

As a result, an army of angels is being assembled in heaven, which should take an inventory of the Earth, decide what to do with assets, eliminate losses, clean up and close an unsuccessful project. But the angels are not ready to take up the dirty work and delegate it to people. So there are tax collectors, bailiffs.

Sylen Studio, in addition to the not yet announced game based on the “Publican”, is working on another project, Dream of gods. The game also relies on mythology, and the gameplay combines a variety of genres from MOBA to RTS, tower defense and battle royale.

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