Black Book (2021)

Vasilisa's dealings with spirits unfold around Cherdyn in the late nineteenth-century Perm countryside. The developers worked with a folklore specialist and local museums, drawing on bailichkas: accounts of supposedly real encounters with spirits. Spells become a deck of cards, while conversations ask you to understand the trouble behind a haunting. The invented plot and card battles turn that research into a substantial, reading-heavy RPG, with choices that make local knowledge useful.