The Underground Man - Released

It looks interesting to me, (text parser dialogue and a large Fallout-style list of skills) but I have no idea if it's any good.

On the discussion board there are claims that a Russian youtuber made this game as sort of a joke; i.e., the game has in-jokes that only Russians will get. And that many of the positive reviews aren't serious (as evidenced by lack of details and that short playtimes)… I haven't been able to find any English gameplay footage, beyond the little snippets in the trailers. The only specific criticisms I've seen seem to be that there are typos and grammatical errors.

Daveyd spotted the release of the Russian Indie RPG The Underground Man:

Moscow: Somewhere in the near future. The city and perhaps the Earth's surface has turned into a radioactive ash. Survivors are living a savage lifestyle: They kill each other, they rob each other, they eat and rape each other (sometimes both at the same time). Those who decided that they could not exist in such conditions began to live under the ground. “The underground people” is how they referred to themselves and you are one of them.
The times have changed and it is time for you to make your own journey into the big world. The biggest problem is that the people on the surface do not know about your existence. They have heard about “underground people”, but they consider those rumors to be fiction. Your objective is to prove to them that you do indeed exist and that you also possess the ability to adapt to the extreme conditions of the wild radioactive desert. Moreover, you will be responsible for provisioning your fellow brothers and sisters, who are staying underground.

Features of the game include:

• Enjoyable retro-graphics
• A post-apocalyptic theme
• Extremely detailed characters
• A cozy bar as a location
• A unique system of character development; you write it yourself and it is applied to your adventures.
• Mercenary-girls that will help you during your journey

And a lot more.

More information.

I have heard that it is a trashy post-apoc RPG with lots of text.
So you can only hope that the humor is not lost in translation.

And the name of its developer is MehSoft. They would not make 'meh' games… oh wait…

Originally Posted by HiddenX
I have heard that it is a trashy post-apoc RPG with lots of text.
So you can only hope that the humor is not lost in translation.

Meh, I guess I'll wait for "Death Trash" to come out next year.

Shovelware, using basic assets from cheap game-making kit. Avoid like the plague.

Also, only 4000ish sales according to SteamSpy but 650+ reviews (at 94% approval). That is an exceptionally high proportion of reviews to sales. Seems too good to be true to me… feels like everyone's in on one big joke.