Just saw your comment on my page, much appreciated friend. Cheers!

You're right, Pathologic is dope. I don't have a hate boner for Russia or something especially Russian people/artists/creatives/developers.

However my point was more that Russia hasn't really entered the AAA space until recently with Atomic Heart, unless you count Tetris, or maybe Tarkov. Eastern Europe in general has some really interesting and impressive history with games between STALKER, Disco Elysium, CDPR in general, and Pathologic too. There just hasn't really been a large amount of output from Russia compared to even other eastern european nations. I'd like that to change one day though, I think the more diverse the AAA space is the better.

Also I do intend to try out Atomic Heart one day even if the reception has been inconsistent because it at worst seems very different and interesting

thanks for the rec, I'll definitely have to check it out. I have a soft spot for the blobber SMT games