Vostok Games

Vostok Games
Type	Private
Industry	Video games
Predecessor	GSC Game World
Founded	March 2012
Founder	Oleg Yavorsky
Headquarters	Kyiv, Ukraine
Key people	Oleg Yavorsky (marketing manager)
Products	Survarium
Number of employees	40 (2013)
Website	vostokgames.com

Vostok Games is a Ukrainian video game developer based in Kyiv. The company was founded in March 2012 by former employees of GSC Game World, including Oleg Yavorsky, following GSC's shutdown. The company developed Fear the Wolves, a battle royale game released in 2019, and is developing Survarium, a free-to-play shooter game.

History

Vostok Games' precursor, GSC Game World, was shut down by its founder, Sergei Grigorovich, on 9 December 2011. Following the closure, Oleg Yavorsky, who had been GSC's public relations manager, alongside many former GSC employees, set out to create a game on their own. They worked with several investors in Ukraine and Russia, but none had a large enough budget to fund the development of a game on the same scale as S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, which had been cancelled with GSC's demise. Because of this, the development team lowered their ambition for the game, concluding that they would develop a free-to-play multiplayer shooter game for personal computers. Following this change, several investors stepped forward, and in March 2012, the team came in contact with Vostok Ventures, which was looking for a game development team. An agreement between the two parties was reached within two weeks, and Vostok Games was founded that same month, shortly after which the company settled in offices in an industrial park in Kyiv. In September 2013, Vostok Games employed 40 former GSC employees in these offices.[1] Yavorksy acts as marketing manager for the studio.[2]

Games developed

Year	Title	Platform(s)			Publisher(s)	Ref.
Year	Title	Win	XBO	PS4	Publisher(s)	Ref.
2015 (early access)	Survarium	Yes	No	No	Vostok Games	[3]
2019	Fear the Wolves	Yes	No	No	Focus Home Interactive	[4][5]

References

Hall, Charlie (8 September 2013). "Stalker fallout: Polygon traces the exodus from Kiev's legendary GSC Game World". Polygon.
Seeder, Ben (30 June 2014). "STALKER: Who's the rightful heir?". GamesIndustry.biz.
Good, Owen S. (31 March 2015). "Survarium, the shooter made by STALKER alumni, launches April 2". Polygon.
O'Connor, Alice (6 February 2019). "Fear The Wolves howls out of early access with free trial". Rock, Paper, Shotgun.
Green, Jake (29 August 2018). "Fear the Wolves Battle Royale Guide – Full Release Date, Early Access Release Date, Stalker, Map Size, PS4, Xbox One". USgamer.

External links

Official website

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[fallout-1] Hall, Charlie (8 September 2013). "Stalker fallout: Polygon traces the exodus from Kiev's legendary GSC Game World". Polygon.

[2] Seeder, Ben (30 June 2014). "STALKER: Who's the rightful heir?". GamesIndustry.biz.

[3] Good, Owen S. (31 March 2015). "Survarium, the shooter made by STALKER alumni, launches April 2". Polygon.

[4] O'Connor, Alice (6 February 2019). "Fear The Wolves howls out of early access with free trial". Rock, Paper, Shotgun.

[5] Green, Jake (29 August 2018). "Fear the Wolves Battle Royale Guide – Full Release Date, Early Access Release Date, Stalker, Map Size, PS4, Xbox One". USgamer.