Indika, Part One
Mar. 23rd, 2025 08:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingI’m not sure how to describe the game Indika save to say that it’s like Dark Souls, if Dark Souls were a no-combat walking sim set in 1910s Russia. It’s an incredible game, but I’m going to need to take some time to process it.
I was actually thinking two things when Indika randomly crossed my radar on Steam. The first is that I’m starting to get nostalgic for the PS3/PS4 era of graphics (ca.2010-2014) where games were very pretty but not yet completely photorealistic. “The original 2011 release of Dark Souls” is a strange liminal territory to aim for in terms of graphics, but Indika occupies this space quite well.
The second thing I was thinking is that it would be cool to see a spiritual successor to Bloodborne set in mid-nineteenth-century Russia. The religion is incredible, the vibes are immaculate, and it would be a pleasure to be horribly murdered while exploring that style of “Russian Revival” architecture. Indika is more Dark Souls (ie, empty ruins) than Bloodborne, but it scratches the same itch.
By the way, a friend was recently saying that Spain would also make a good setting for Bloodborne, and you know what. That would be amazing too. Fuck yes.
I was actually thinking two things when Indika randomly crossed my radar on Steam. The first is that I’m starting to get nostalgic for the PS3/PS4 era of graphics (ca.2010-2014) where games were very pretty but not yet completely photorealistic. “The original 2011 release of Dark Souls” is a strange liminal territory to aim for in terms of graphics, but Indika occupies this space quite well.
The second thing I was thinking is that it would be cool to see a spiritual successor to Bloodborne set in mid-nineteenth-century Russia. The religion is incredible, the vibes are immaculate, and it would be a pleasure to be horribly murdered while exploring that style of “Russian Revival” architecture. Indika is more Dark Souls (ie, empty ruins) than Bloodborne, but it scratches the same itch.
By the way, a friend was recently saying that Spain would also make a good setting for Bloodborne, and you know what. That would be amazing too. Fuck yes.
