Best Ukrainian Games to Play on PC in 2025

Ukraine’s game development scene has been quietly thriving for years. But in 2025, it’s anything but quiet.

From moody survival horror and Soviet-blasted open worlds to story-rich detective mysteries and satirical war dramas, these PC games reflect not just technical talent, but a deep cultural fingerprint.

Some were made by solo devs in small apartments, others by studios working through blackouts and war.

All of them are worth playing.

Whether you’re after something cozy, terrifying, political, or just plain weird, this list brings together the best Ukrainian-made games you can play right now, with more than a few you probably haven’t heard of yet.

PARANOIA PLACE (2025)

PARANOIA PLACE is a 1–3 player online co-op survival horror where you and your squad (or you alone) creep through large, oppressive maps solving step-by-step puzzles, juggling single-slot items, and staying quiet enough to avoid a demonic killer whose AI grows faster and meaner as the run goes on. It leans into tense hide-and-seek where broken glass and other noise traps can betray you. All the while, smart quality-of-life touches like a dynamic map that shows dropped items, a camera that can save your skin, proximity voice chat, and four difficulty modes keep runs readable and social.

Recently fully released, it carries “Very Positive” reviews and a very low price point of $6.99 at the time of writing. As for length, a run can be completed in roughly 80–90 minutes in co-op, with randomized item spawns adding some replay value. Add multilingual support, including Ukrainian, and you’ve got a lean, affordable horror experience that deserves more attention in 2025.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl (2024)

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl is an ambitious Ukrainian-made return to the Zone: a 64-km² open world where you pick your path through the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, juggling survival (hunger, sleep, bleeding, radiation) with tense FPS combat and quiet artifact hunts among deadly anomalies and warring factions. It blends open-ended questing and a non-linear story with multiple endings, dynamic weather/day–night cycles, and 30+ moddable weapons, wrapped in photogrammetry-driven visuals and full Ukrainian voice support. Mod tools are supported, and multiplayer has been promised as a free post-launch update.

Beyond having been developed by Ukrainian game development studio GSC Game World, it earns a place here because it captures a distinctly Ukrainian atmosphere of lonely campfires in the wilderness, post-Soviet architecture, and an ominous tension that’s hard to find elsewhere. Despite mixed reports on performance and AI at launch, overall Steam reception now sits Very Positive and the studio continues to ship regular updates. As for length, player reports vary widely, but many note a main run in the dozens of hours (roughly 40–70), with side content pushing playtime well past 80–100 hours.

Death From Above: A Ukrainian Drone Warstory (2024)

Death From Above: A Ukrainian Drone Warstory is a compact, single-player, arcade-style action game where you act as a lone Ukrainian drone operator behind enemy lines, swapping between your soldier on the ground, a versatile quadcopter, and an FPV drone to destroy armored targets, clear minefields, repair disrupted communications, and recover stolen equipment across a sandbox map sprinkled with easter eggs. Missions include intercepting convoys and demining runs, and includes 21 Steam achievements, leaderboards, and full controller support, with broad language options including Ukrainian.

It’s short by design: the game lasts roughly 90 minutes to a few hours depending on exploration and side tasks. Beyond the novelty of modern drone warfare as a playable loop, it earns attention for purpose: a portion of net proceeds goes to Come Back Alive and the Army of Drones, with a higher share pledged after the game breaks even, and the reception to date is “Very Positive.” It delivers topical, satirical tension without claiming to be a simulator, which makes it an easy recommendation for a timely, focused session.

Menace From The Deep (2024)

Menace from the Deep is a Lovecraft-inspired roguelike deckbuilder set in a grim 1920s USA, where you play as members of a clandestine occult society pushing back against an eldritch threat. Runs revolve around turn-based card combat, a dual health/sanity system, and a novel “travel deck” that lets you choose your next encounter, among fuel stations, motels, merchants, and elites, by drawing location cards rather than following a fixed map.

Three distinct heroes (Detective with a canine companion, Professor with summons and status effects, Cultist with bleed mechanics) shape how you build your deck, while cards level up through use, relics slot into powerful sets, and a meta layer lets you gather materials to upgrade your base between attempts. It’s been well-received, with “Very Positive” reviews on Steam, and was a Indie Cup Europe 2024 “Next Big Thing” nominee. Each run will take you between 60–90 minutes and a full story playthrough roughly 20–30 hours, with much more if you chase 100%. The atmosphere, steady updates, and encounter-choice system make it a strong 2025 pick.

PockeDate! – Pocket Dating Simulator (2024)

PockeDate! – Pocket Dating Simulator is a free, Ukrainian-made visual novel from a single dev working under the name TERNOX that casts you as the perpetual date of Akari, a pixel-art sweetheart whose dialogue reshuffles every launch. You read, choose responses, and steer toward different outcomes and achievements across “secret” dates and repeatable scenarios. Despite its cozy setup, the game openly signals psychological-horror beats and occasional fourth-wall mischief, which build over time without requiring prior genre knowledge.

It’s approachable, Steam Deck–playable, and supports multiple languages (including Ukrainian), with an original soundtrack and 14 achievements to chase. A first clear and several endings can take roughly 2–3 hours, with extra time if you’re hunting every achievement or epilogue. Between the clever looped-date premise, meta twists, and strong community reception (“Very Positive” recent reviews), it earns a place among notable Ukrainian PC games to play in 2025.

My Dream Setup (2023)

My Dream Setup is a single-player room-design simulator from Campfire Studio that lets you build the space you’ve always wanted, then tweak it endlessly. The core game loop is cozy and creative: arrange furniture without a grid and with no item limits, recolor virtually anything using the full RGB palette, mix wallpapers and wall paints per wall, and preview your room under different weather and lighting: sunny, sunset, rain, snow, or night, complete with window views and precipitation.

Blueprint mode lets you place walls, windows, and doors and redesign the room at any time, while Steam Workshop support adds community content on top of the base catalog and optional Pets, Bathroom, Kitchen, and Garage DLCs. It’s single-player, Steam Deck Playable, and supported in multiple languages (including Ukrainian). There’s no defined “finish,” so playtime is as long as your imagination lasts. It maintains Overwhelmingly Positive recent reviews.

STONKS-9800: Stock Market Simulator (2023)

STONKS-9800: Stock Market Simulator is a text-based sim from Ukrainian developer TERNOX that puts you in the shoes of an ’80s–’90s Japanese market businessman, asking you to buy stocks, collect dividends, and watch prices while juggling lifestyle and stress so you don’t wind up in the hospital. Still in Early Access, it already offers Free Mode and CEO Mode with random events instead of a linear story, letting you either take over an existing firm or found your own, hire a team, and even earn money through legal or shady means. You can also invest in real estate and cars, and blow off steam with pachinko or horse-racing mini-games.

Decisions affect both the market and your character’s life, and there are 200 Steam achievements plus Steam Deck Verified support. With “Overwhelmingly Positive” overall user reviews and an active plan to add a Story Mode ahead of a full release targeted for 2026, it’s a distinctive, retro-flavored sandbox that merits a place in any 2025 PC roundup of standout games from Ukraine, especially if you want an open-ended experience rather than a set playtime.

Sherlock Holmes The Awakened (2023)

Sherlock Holmes The Awakened is a rebuilt, modern take on Frogwares’ 2008 mystery, mixing Doyle’s logic with Lovecraft’s dread. You play a young Sherlock chasing a string of disappearances tied to a cult, moving from Baker Street to a Swiss asylum and the Louisiana wetlands as you gather clues, pin evidence, reconstruct scenes in the Mind Palace, and push through sanity-bending sequences rather than combat.

It’s a linear, chapter-based adventure with optional side quests, updated visuals in Unreal Engine, and strong voice work that leans into the Holmes–Watson partnership. Reviews on Steam sit at “Very Positive,” with press scores in the 80s, and player reports suggest a roughly 9–17 hour run (shorter if you rush, longer if you explore). Developed by Kyiv-based Frogwares, it earns a place here as a polished, atmospheric detective game from a Ukrainian studio that smartly fuses classic sleuthing with cosmic horror without inventing answers the story can’t explain.

Ukraine War Stories (2022)

Ukraine War Stories is a free, text-driven collection of three visual-novel episodes, from Hostomel, Bucha, and Mariupol, and more, recounting the first months of the 2022 Russian invasion from the perspective of civilians trapped under occupation. Built by Kyiv-based Starni Games and grounded in eyewitness testimonies, it pairs illustrated scenes and a somber soundtrack with branching choices and light resource/mood tracking (for example, keeping a hospital operational in Mariupol or balancing a family’s morale in Hostomel) that lead to different outcomes. The art draws on authentic wartime photographs from the places depicted, and there are no in-app purchases or paywalls.

You can finish the three stories in a few hours, with extra time if you explore alternate routes. With its focus on survival over heroics and its careful, source-based storytelling, and with Very Positive reception on Steam, it’s an important Ukrainian-made work that earns a place in any 2025 PC roundup for how clearly it communicates the lived reality of the first days of the full scale invasion through interactive choices.

Ostriv (2020)

Ostriv is a city-building sim deep into a productive early-access period that puts you in charge of an 18th-century Ukrainian town, focusing on organic settlement design and careful resource management. You place more than 60 buildings across seven maps without grid or angle constraints, run advanced farming with crop rotation and ploughing, watch seasons change, and trade by land and river, all features already working in the current alpha.

There’s no fixed campaign yet, so play is open-ended rather than time-bound, and the developer yevhen8 continues to build it with community feedback. With “Very Positive” reviews on Steam and Steam Deck Playable status, it earns a spot for its authentic Ukrainian setting, thoughtful simulation systems, and the satisfying feeling of a village that grows because you planned it well.

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