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Metron (МЕТРОН) is a full motion video adventure game made in 2004 by a Russian ‘garage game developer’ Korban Laser Games.

Set in Korenevo, Kursk Oblast, Russia. Polina, the protagonist, finds herself investigating a series of murders committed by the evil Metron and trying to avoid becoming a victim herself.

The game was made extremely cheaply. The actors all basically teenagers, obvious ketchup as fake blood, and some pretty funny and inventive ‘special effects’. The story itself…well…it sure reads like teenage sci-fi fan fiction. It was never exported overseas or translated to any other language – a relatively common situation for lower-tier Russian game developers before the GFC and Steam. Nevertheless, it has become a popular title for Russian “Let’s players” due to how infamously corny it is, and videos of it can be easily found on YouTube.