1999 · Alawar Entertainment · Real-time strategy · Strategy

Swarog

Swarog is an unique real-time strategy game set in ancient Russia. There is the story of a violent Pagan God and the people he leads to victory over their enemies. In a series of missions your leadership ability is put to the test and you have to gather food, wood and ore in order to take care of your peasants. Then tax them as you need to raise an army to protect your subjects from attack by the vicious invasion forces that threaten your borders.

Released: 31 December 1999
Platforms: Windows
Genres: Real-time strategy Strategy
Developers: Alawar Entertainment
Publishers: Crystal Interactive Inc
Modes: Single-player
Perspective: Bird view / Isometric
Themes: Action 4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate)
Languages: English, Russian

›Story

It is not enough simply to stay at home and sleep, yokel! It is now time for you to defend the people of Luzhevya as they settle in mystical and uncharted lands discovered by our scouts. Now, listen to the bidding, go to the land and settle down. You must clear the forest, build new huts and barracks and fight off terrifying enemies.

But you are not alone in this quest. For you have been sent the Great One, the young and valiant Poluyan Vyskata, who will guide you.

Poluyan, these lands are new and heavenly, with green grasses, swamp and rolling hills. We shouldn't miss this opportunity, and be mocked forever... What horrors await us in this new place? Who must we battle, what forces exist here?

Tell us brave warrior, how can we triumph & colonize this new world? What shall we make of these horned beast that walk upright & appear to be human-like? Are they simply relics of an ancient time, or the remains of an existing army of terror?! The sword of Vyskata?

We found it, with the boney arm of the last one that brandished it, and met his fate! On the hand the ring of Luzhevyani, the great grandfather of Poluyan Vyskata the warrior. Who was it that took his life so long ago. And are they still here, O Great One?