Frogwares is returning to the Eldritch horror well again after giving us the Lovecraftian The Sinking City a few years back. While the official name hasn’t been revealed, the new game, codenamed “Project Palianytsia”, will reportedly be a mix of Frogwares’ previous games in The Sinking City and Sherlock Holmes.
The team has had a rough go as of late, due to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. The announcement of the new game is “a clear middle finger to those who thought they could just roll into our country hoping to disrupt and ruin our lives,” says Sergey Oganesyan, Communications Manager at Frogwares.
“While still challenging, prior to this, everything we released during the war was existing projects that needed to be finalized. We are now making something almost entirely from scratch which is a lot harder under these circumstances so we needed to think smart about what is realistic for us. The idea was greenlit for this very reason as it is something our current team and setup can deliver compared to doing pre-production on another open-world title, which is what we were doing prior to the war.”
“The name Palianytsia is symbolic to Ukraine as it’s considered part of our national cuisine. But it’s also the equivalent of phonetical Dark Souls for Russians who often can’t pronounce it correctly when trying to pass off as Ukrainian. And so now it’s often used in the field as a test to quickly identify possible affiliation of unknown individuals.”
Along with the announcement, Frogwares has also revealed four concept art pieces for Project Palianytsia, which is expected to be revealed later this summer.
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