Project Palianytsia is the next game from the creators of The Sinking City and the Sherlock Holmes series


Frogwares has announced they are working on a new title, codenamed Project Palianytsia. According to the studio, Project Palianytsia is a mix of eldritch horror coupled with Victorian-era mystery, aimed at fans of Frogwares’ The Sinking City and Sherlock Holmes series.

Frogwares has shared four early concept pieces to give people their first glimpse of the project. The official reveal will hopefully be ready to show sometime this summer.

Sergey Oganesyan, Communications Manager at Frogwares, said:

“We are revealing the game now in this way to simply show people we are pushing on and also as a clear middle finger to those who thought they could just roll into our country hoping to disrupt and ruin our lives.

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.”

Stay tuned for more!

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