Denis Rudy, who worked as a team leader of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 level designers from 2019 to 2023, has released the first trailer for his own game BRUTALIST.
"BRUTALIST is a third-person meditative game where you need to follow paths, find passages, solve riddles, watch out for radiation and monitor oxygen levels. And all this is surrounded by an atmospheric abandoned concrete world.The main feature and idea of the BRUTALIST is to enjoy the environment, especially for fans of post-apocalypse and minimalist concrete architecture. Narration through the environment, that's what awaits you," says the project description on Steam.
From a visual point of view, BRUTALIST reminded us of another Ukrainian project, Cognition Method, which also actively uses minimalist concrete surroundings.
Denys Rudyi is no stranger to self-development, having already released two projects on Steam - Heat Guardian (2018), a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2D game about extreme cold, and Mouse Hero, a meditative game that uses only a mouse.
BRUTALIST uses Unreal Engine 5, will have English, Ukrainian, and for some reason Russian localizations, and is due out on Steam sometime in 2025. There is no information about the release on other platforms yet.