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Gorky 17 cover art

Gorky 17

Metropolis Software · TopWare Interactive · 2013-09-27

SteamGOG

RPGStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: 2002 (Mac), 1999 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 15, 2006 (Linux)

November 2008. NATO intelligence services report that, for reasons unknown, the Russian military has destroyed GORKY 17, one of the old Soviet "Secret Cities". A year later NATO takes over a former Russian secret base built on Polish soil. Diggers discover a laboratory complex in the completely demolished town.

2
playing now
81%
positive of 2.2k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
79/100
IGDB user rating (27 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

Gorky 17 is a turn-based tactics tactical role-playing video game developed by Polish studio Metropolis Software and published by Monolith Productions for Microsoft Windows in 1999. The game was later ported to Linux by Hyperion Entertainment and published by Linux Game Publishing in 2006. The AmigaOS 4 version was released in 2015.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 24% of 6,157 RPG games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 87k–174k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,177 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$3.99-60%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$3.99-60%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.43 at GameBillet (2022-12-21) · bundled 12×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 102 of 119 observed days · $3.56 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

3102026-08-06 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 4 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 4 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 3 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 4 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 5 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-12 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 4 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-18 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 2 players2026-08-20 21:00 — 2 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 12:00 — 5 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 6 players2026-08-26 04:00 — 2 players2026-08-27 12:00 — 31 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 27 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$0.432015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $1.242015-05-23 — best price $5.502015-12-14 — best price $5.512016-12-08 — best price $2.392017-08-07 — best price $0.992018-01-10 — best price $4.992018-06-19 — best price $5.992018-12-03 — best price $4.992019-05-10 — best price $0.992019-10-23 — best price $4.992020-01-22 — best price $1.992020-06-15 — best price $5.992020-08-06 — best price $4.992020-09-25 — best price $4.392020-11-23 — best price $5.992021-01-21 — best price $4.992021-03-07 — best price $4.992021-04-22 — best price $0.492021-06-24 — best price $1.992021-11-11 — best price $0.502022-01-31 — best price $0.502022-06-06 — best price $1.792022-09-06 — best price $4.992022-12-10 — best price $3.662023-02-13 — best price $2.392023-06-04 — best price $3.892023-08-30 — best price $1.502023-12-05 — best price $4.392024-03-09 — best price $4.392024-06-08 — best price $4.112024-09-10 — best price $9.992025-02-05 — best price $9.992025-08-13 — best price $3.992025-12-08 — best price $4.122026-04-06 — best price $9.992026-06-14 — best price $4.132026-08-25 — best price $3.992026-08-30 — best price $3.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

199192026-05-29 — 23 pageviews2026-06-01 — 46 pageviews2026-06-04 — 19 pageviews2026-06-07 — 45 pageviews2026-06-10 — 22 pageviews2026-06-13 — 23 pageviews2026-06-16 — 35 pageviews2026-06-19 — 36 pageviews2026-06-22 — 199 pageviews2026-06-25 — 24 pageviews2026-06-28 — 32 pageviews2026-07-01 — 35 pageviews2026-07-04 — 85 pageviews2026-07-07 — 33 pageviews2026-07-10 — 28 pageviews2026-07-13 — 58 pageviews2026-07-16 — 45 pageviews2026-07-19 — 40 pageviews2026-07-22 — 35 pageviews2026-07-25 — 31 pageviews2026-07-28 — 42 pageviews2026-07-31 — 30 pageviews2026-08-03 — 51 pageviews2026-08-06 — 35 pageviews2026-08-09 — 35 pageviews2026-08-12 — 41 pageviews2026-08-15 — 29 pageviews2026-08-18 — 41 pageviews2026-08-21 — 64 pageviews2026-08-24 — 38 pageviews2026-08-26 — 55 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

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5 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish

Player tags

RPGActionHorrorSci-fiClassicStrategyTacticalIsometricTurn-BasedAtmospheric

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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