The greatest video games set in Hungary
You will find Hungary featured in many sports video games, especially racing games. But Hungary features in several other notable video games, too. Here is a look at the five greatest games set in Hungary (Magyarország).
Dracula 4: The Shadow of the Dragon
This 2013 point-and-click adventure game involves art restorer Ellen Cross tracking down a lost painting. When it looks like the painting is going to be auctioned in Budapest, Cross visits the city to investigate further. It is not long before Cross’s trail brings her into contact with the great grandson of Bram Stoker.
Jalopy Â
The absorbing simulation game Jalopy was launched on Steam in 2016. The story of the game involves two Germans of Turkish descent, Splat and his Uncle Lütfi, attempting to rebuild a Laika car from spare parts while driving it from East Berlin to Turkey. In this charming game, you get to travel through East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Turkey, while stopping at each to find shops with parts to maintain the car.
F1 2020
If you enjoy fast cars, you will love playing the newest game in Codemasters’ Formula 1 series of video games, F1 2020. The game features the twenty drivers, ten teams, and twenty-two circuits that were proposed for the 2020 Formula 1 World Championship. Amongst the circuits is the famous Hungaroring race track near Budapest. You are sure to love speeding down the circuit using Charles Leclerc’s Ferrari. And if you have the need for speed, there are plenty of other racing games available, such as the Drive: Multiplier Mayhem slot, which you can play at an online casino.
Hitman: Codename 47
The first part of the popular Hitman series of video games sees the genetically-enhanced clone Agent 47 taking on four contract assassinations over the space of a year. The agent with a barcode on the back of his head must kill Triad boss Lee Hong in Hong Kong by subtly starting a gang war and then travel to Columbia to murder the notorious cocaine trafficker Pablo Belisario Ochoa via a drug raid setup. Next, the unstoppable Agent 47 has to travel to beautiful Budapest to assassinate the Austrian Frantz Fuchs, who is planning an explosion at an international conference. Lastly, Agent 47 must take out gunrunner Arkadij Jegorov in Rotterdam, to stop him from selling a nuclear warhead. If you have not yet played the stealth video game Hitman: Codename 47, you do not know what you are missing.
Yoomurjak’s Ring
Finally! A video game set entirely in Hungary! To be more precise, the 2005 full-motion-video point-and-click adventure game Yoomurjak’s Ring is completely located in the baroque city of Eger. The game was designed by Pierrot, the Hungarian game designer and musician. Through a first-person perspective, you play the game as Jonathan Hunt, an American journalist. After reading about his mother’s birthplace of Eger in a novel, Hunt decides to visit the city. The novel speaks of the heroic 16th century when Eger was one of the ultimate strongholds against the Ottoman Empire. But it is not only the place’s history and ancestral connection that peaks Hunts interest. For, in the book, Hunt finds two letters from a strange Hungarian scientist dating from 1898, which describe his discovery of time travel.
The absorbing story and gameplay of Yoomurjak’s Ring will keep you entertained for hours.
But what really marks this game out as special is its immense realistic simulation of Eger. More than thirty locations are featured in the game, including several museums, the historic library, the town hall, the observatory, an antique shop, the Eger minaret, the basilica, and the Lyceum. Yoomurjak’s Ring even features dialogue and background sounds recorded in the original locations. Furthermore, the dialogue was provided by the prominent Hungarian actors László Görög and György Bárdy, and the rapper Ganxsta Zolee.
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