Solo Developer Creates Game Based on Zeltser's Story: Lots of Violence and Corpses of Real Security Forces
Psycho Partisans: Officer Nirvana is an amateur first-person horror shooter about Belarus after 2020. It's frightening not only because of the extreme violence against security forces but also by the very fact that someone went so far as to create such a game.
The author, signed under the nickname FritzAndMoses, describes his project as an artistic expression and a political statement, rather than a traditional video game.
According to the game description on the Steam platform, all names and faces of enemies in the game are real. They belong to people who, as the developer claims, committed crimes against humanity. The dramatic story is based on real events and does not have a happy ending.
The action takes place in Belarus in 2021 — after the falsified presidential elections. Terror reigns in the country: security forces hunt down protesters, torture is used in prisons, and violence occurs on the streets.
Lukashenka's speech under Russian flags. Trailer screenshot
The game shows Lukashenka's speech, standing on a stage between Belarusian state and Russian flags — but with symbols of the 2025 elections. He speaks in English with Belarusian subtitles, declares his victory with 95% of the votes, accuses enemies of imposing sanctions, threatens with nuclear weapons, discusses "rats" within the country, and promises to crush anyone who violates "unity."
The main character of the game is Andrei, a 30-year-old IT specialist. He tries to spend a quiet evening programming and makes a simple game about elections, but events get out of control.
Police vans and cars with Z-symbols outside the apartment windows. Gameplay screenshot
Neither the title nor the description hide the fact that the game refers to the events of September 28, 2021, in Minsk, when a shootout occurred during an apartment raid between KGB officers and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser. As a result, Dmitry Fedasyuk, an officer of the "Alfa" special unit with the call sign "Nirvana," which is in the game's title, was killed, and Zeltser himself was shot dead. After this, a large-scale wave of criminal cases and repressions began in Belarus against people who publicly expressed sympathy for Zeltser.
Gameplay is described as survival in the conditions of the "dictatorship of the Belarusian imposter," mixed with mythology and stories about Belarusian heroes fighting for freedom.
The game contains scenes of extreme violence and, as the author notes, is not intended for all ages.
Security forces at the doorstep. Trailer screenshot
In the shown gameplay footage, the main character opens the door of his apartment, which is being knocked on by a policeman, kills him with a firearm, and takes an ID from the corpse.
Killing security forces in the main character's apartment. Gameplay screenshot
It lists the name of Igor Kachuk — a completely real Belarusian policeman, and the virtual ID uses his real photo and a peculiar description of his "merits": "Cop bastard who tortured people in Akrestsina."
Killed security forces. Each of them has an ID with the photo and name of a real Belarusian security officer. Gameplay screenshot
After that, the player kills another security officer on the stairs. In other screenshots, he turns security officers into a bloody mess with a shotgun already in his apartment.
There is a lot of violence in the game. In one of the early videos, the author shows how he blows off Lukashenka's head with a shotgun, who is sitting on a golden toilet under the state flag.
The game's logo is a stylized white-red-white flag with a devil's head in the middle. This is an ambiguous decision for an anti-regime plot, as "BChB-demons" is what security forces and propagandists call Lukashenka's opponents. Posters with the same devil can also be seen on the walls of the main character's apartment.
In the game's main menu, against the background of a police van with Belarusian and Russian flags, a security officer is seen hanged on a tree, his baton and shield lying nearby on the ground.
In the snowy courtyards and roads, there are security forces' vehicles and cars with Z-symbols. On the roadsides, security forces conduct personal searches of civilians.
Search of civilians on the roadside. Gameplay screenshot
There are also surreal scenes: a herd of huge bison walking through a snowy field on a winter evening in an unknown direction, and a "safe place for the player" — a cozy village house with a fireplace.
Herd of bison. Gameplay screenshot
The developer notes that artificial intelligence tools were widely used during game creation — for generating textures, voices, animations, and assisting with code. Among the declared languages is only English, apparently because it is easier to create artificial audio content, including Lukashenka's voice, in it.
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