In Steam, “Gostomel Warriors” sold 3.6 times better than on VK Play, even though it was released a month later

Earlier this year, the Russian team Cats Who Play launched their new game — a real-time military strategy “Gostomelskie Bogatyri”. Initially, the game debuted on VK Play (February 24), and later landed on Steam (March 31). Now, details about its performance on both platforms have emerged.

The budget for “Off-road Travelers” could exceed 1 billion rubles

At the SPIEF 2026, the head of the Republic of Mordovia, Artem Zdunov, not only announced the region’s ambitions in game development. He also disclosed the estimated cost of “Off-Road Commanders”—the spiritual successor to “Truckers,” being developed with the support of the Mordovian authorities.

Grishakov: Meltopia has reached the second spot in the VK Play sales chart, with revenue of less than 20,000 rubles

There isn’t much public information about how much games earn on VK Play. Some insight can be gleaned from the developers who publish games on the platform. Recently, Yevgeny Grishakov, the founder of Garden of Dreams studio, shared some of this information.

“Rubric” acquired the authors of mobile games based on “The Three Cats” and “The Fixies”

The studio “Devgame” is now part of the Russian company “Rubric,” which manufactures construction kits similar to LEGO. The deal was announced by the head of “Rubric,” Ainar Abdrakhmanov, in an interview with the newspaper “Vedomosti” during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2026.

The adventure game Meltopia by Evgeny Grishakov earned over $60,000 in five days

On May 1st, the winter adventure game Meltopia, developed by the studio Garden of Dreams, was released on Steam. The game, set in a snow-covered world where players search for mammoth remains, has been showing success right from its launch, according to the team’s founder, Eugene Grishakov.

Former StopGame authors have launched their own publishing house — Multifora Digital

A year and a half ago, former editor-in-chief of StopGame Dmitry Kungurov, together with a group of colleagues and creators of several popular YouTube channels, founded the creative studio RULER Productions. The studio assists developers with game trailers. Now, the team has decided to go even further and delve into the publishing business.

tinyBuild on the success of Hozy: the game immediately caught attention

On March 30, Hozy — a meditative home decoration simulator developed by the Russian-speaking team Come On Studio — was released on Steam. Vladimir Tolmachev and Vera Ljubbers from the publisher tinyBuild shared with GameDiscoverCo how the game paved its way to a successful launch.

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