7 Super Popular Games You Didn’t Know Were From Poland - The Gist

The Witcher series may be hugely popular, but those are far from the only awesome games that came from Poland!

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Thanks Poland :)

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It would be cool if this wasn't a video. Just sayin'.

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Would just like to point out to everyone that the "missing games" are Witcher 3 (which sponsored this apparently as per the opening of the video), and Bullet Storm which shared a spot with Gears of war... for whatever reason that may be.


So 1 + 5 + 1 = 7 games. They didn't "lie".. but they sure didn't make sensible.


(Also there may be other ways to view a country as "small" as opposed to just physical size or population; for example, the entire point of the video was the amount of games you wouldn't realise came out of said country, ergo small in (known) contribution. Among other possible interpretations).

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Can't believe she described the world of Ethan Carter as being "massive"! The world was basically in the shape of a circle that you could traverse in about 4 minutes with a small underground area. If she thinks that is massive I would love to hear how she describes the size of the world in the Witcher 3 Wild Hunt!

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Very informative. :)

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@Lizzard1199 @beepbep jess live in Australia so compared to that, i guess. also population is a bit less then 1/2 of what England has. 37 mill Poland to 64.5 mill England ok so 10 mill off from the half way mark. funny Australia only has just under 24mill making it one of the least densely populated countries in the world


now i'm sure you don't really care though why did i even type all of this o.O

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Haha! I am a historian as well :) It is great to hear that there are people who care about something more than just another payslip out there.

I invite you to our game "Rounded Strategy" if you have an Android device (iOS comming soon). It is also based on history, but funny, cartoon styled.

Have a nice day!

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@nowahutagames Indeed, I feel the same about that.

I will check that out. A good day to you too!

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Those Australian girls... everything is small to them. Good episode btw.

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actually those are really impressive games! thanks Poland!

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Maybe not AAA league, but Polish indie gamedev has also many interesting and innovative games to offer.
Try out "Rounded Strategy" - new kind of F2P, turn-based strategy game, designed for mobile mid-core players.


http://roundedstrategy.com/

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Jess can't count? 5 games shown!

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Two Polaks walk into a bar..

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Jess M. you look a lot/soooooo much better without all of that dam makeup so keep it up girl!

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Poland a small European country? What

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@beepbep Poland is smaller than one of the smaller states in brazil, by almost 200.000 KM².

Pretty small, depending from where you see it. And Russia is even bigger! But don't take offense :P This is not diminishing or pejorative in any way.

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@beepbep Small country? lol

It's 9th largest country in Europe hitting 312,679 km² where England has mere 130,395 km². Poland is also 6th most populous country in Europe...we're not that small gamespot :)

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@Lizzard1199 @beepbep The world is not just europe :) If gamespot is comparing to the rest of the world, yes, poland is not that big. Read my previous comment, you will see how for other countries it can be really small. As I said, MG state in Brazil is bigger than Poland by almost 200k km².

Not counting Amazonas, which is 1 559 159,148 KM². :D


As I said, if you taken out just the europe, and consider the rest of the world, you can see why they said small country.


The more you know!

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@beepbep ikr, it's one of the bigger ones right behind Spain in population, I believe.

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@beepbep Yup, its about the size of Ampsterdam and is between Germany, Russia, and Africa. *Rainbow* "The More You Know!"

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@Pawfalcon @beepbep Really? Africa? for real?

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@niv0070 @Pawfalcon @beepbep no there are a bunch of countries between Poland and africa not to mention its in the north of the European continent its neighbors from west to east are Germany, Czech republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuanian and lastly the Russian federation which is oddly separated from the rest of the country by other former soviet countries

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About the size of whaa?

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iOS: Real boxing

Many (most?) mobile games. Like from gameloft, gamelion (many ports),vivid games and so on.

Techland: Earth 2014 and other from the series

And many many more.

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This war of mine had a wall of text ending, then nothing, such a let down if you managed to survive the 40 sum nights it took to complete it.

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I agree with others, saying that small is reserved for countries like Benelux or Baltic countries, Poland certainly is far from small in both size and population. Only like a dozen countries would be 'not small' by that mindset.

What I especially like about Poles is that they're hard-working in graphics department and not hiding behind 8-bit laziness even for games where graphics wouldn't be as important, as seen in the video and more upcoming games.

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@Ultramarinus Thanks for kind words about us ;)

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@nowahutagames @Ultramarinus Only have good things to say about you people, I admire how you turned around the country in the last 25 years. As a Turk, I know we used to fight back then but former enemies sometimes make the best friends. :)

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I can't agree more! Did you know that your country was the only one which never accepted The Conquest of Poland by Prussia, Russia and Austro-Hungarian empires in the end of XVIII century? For 123 years!

Polish and Turkish people have a lot in common.

Peace :)

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@nowahutagames Indeed I knew that, what's the most ironic and disconcerting in that is Poland saved Vienna in the previous century from our siege and it was repaid like that by your neighbors. Oh well, I'm kinda a history nerd so don't let me start or I'll never stop!

Peace out. :)

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@Ultramarinus Yeah it's small if you live in NA, but for the rest of the world Poland isn't small, wth.

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@brostepper @fallingstickman Actually the Netherlands have quite a lot - 16+ millions. But yeah, Poland is a relatively big country.

Funny thing is, it has more than 50% more people than Australia :)

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I love UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU CDPR!! I love you more than all the girls I have loved combined ^_^ u guys are soooo sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet :333

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@Pawfalcon @Xatsuna @mckmcr i could happen you just to amass enough GS followers who play battlefield online :P

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7 Super Popular Games mhh this are only 5 you show os


sorry about my bad english

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@Davir this is only 5 that you showed us :) ...... now you arent bad in English :D

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@lordshifu @Davir , these are only 5 that you showed us :) ...... now you aren't bad in English :D

I only did that for the irony, I swear.

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@JAZ117 @lordshifu @Davir You only showed us 5 games. Now, your English is better.


More irony?

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@DragonfireXZ95 The way I adjusted it was technically correct. If we take lordshifu as a proper name than it reads as "Lordshifu, these are only 5 that you showed us..... now you aren't bad in English," which is acceptable, at least for the most part.

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@brostepper @fallingstickman I get the point you are making but the wrong numbers are hurting:
Sweden is 9,1 million, Norway and Denmark are 5+ million and the Netherlands has almost 17 million people.

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@jossu7 @brostepper @fallingstickman Orly? Messed that up a bit. Well, you get my point. Ya, Denmark, Norway, Sweden....

blah blah....

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Small European country?

Shes definitely pushing the stereotype that Americans know nothing about out side the US

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@jnw93 It depends on perspective. Coming from and visiting countries 5x bigger, it's small.
Within the context of Europe, medium to large.

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@jnw93 She's Australian. Irony at its best

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@jnw93 She's Australian....isn't she? Just kidding...I got your point.

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@oldschoolvandal @jnw93 I thought she was Scottish.

Jess McDonald sounds Scottish.

Hey, I like her, leave her alone... sigh. Jess, I have a dog picked out for our future family. *call me*

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@brostepper @oldschoolvandal @jnw93 Sheesh of all the people you
could marry..... i think media has ostracized the feminine beauty to excessive levels and brainwashed us into liking them... it highly overrated... if this brainwashing propaganda didnt exist world would have proudly borne more gays ^_^ the most lovely creatures of planet earth :3 :3

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@brostepper My point exactly.

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