‘Like taking a shovel to your brain’: dark fairytale game Indika takes aim at the Russian Orthodox church

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Creative director and writer Dmitry Svetlov explains how his religious upbringing shaped this game about a nun with a rebellious streak

young woman stands amid the labyrinthine architecture of a Russian nunnery. At first glance, you’d be forgiven for mistaking the scene for one from Tomb Raider. Then the woman moves – slowly, and without the athletic gait of action hero Lara Croft.

“When you’re a 15-year-old, and you’ve believed in something for your whole life, it requires so much effort to change it,” he says. “It’s like grabbing a shovel and putting it into your brain.” Thanks to the quick-witted, acerbic script, the game never becomes tedious. Less interactive sections are punctuated by spatial puzzles, and the overall experience is elevated by exquisite yet unnerving environment design that verges on unearthly.

For Svetlov, it was important to design puzzles that appear to rip Indika’s world apart, “because that’s precisely what is happening to her mind at that moment”.

 

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