Upon my search for original / weird / obscure games, I've stumbled on a game called "The Mysterious Island" on Youtube from a Polish Studio I've never heard about.

Their list of games is given on : http://www.giantbomb.com/calaris-studios/65-2420/

Now I really like obscure titles, but since there are hardly any gameplay footage of these games on youtube; I wanted to know if somebody knew about those titles ? If so, are they any good ?

Furthermore, there official website is in Polish.. so I can't understand a damn thing, and it pretty much look like the company went under after their 2010 FPS release.
I'm more interested in their platformers/ action-adventure titles.. since it's my favorite genres.


Thank you and sorry for the disturbance.

This is a Mobygames article on one of their games:



http://www.mobygames.com/game/wolfschanze
Here's a video for it too.





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cA2AA_BkMI

That Wolfschanze game looks like an instaban in a certain country to the west of Poland. Hitler AND a swastika in the same screenshot? BANNED.

But it isn't. It's one of those awful budget games. Not normaly bad.

That's a shame. They're nice to play between the new ones.

Well, it isn't the FPS game that interest me. It's especially the first game featured on their webpage.

www.calaris.com

Looks like a hack & slash / rpg type of game, no ? But other from the image, I can't really say anything about it. Not even sure if it was even released....


I've searched on the internet for a while, and I finally found some answer that satisfied me.
Gonna post here what I found, in case it interested somebody other than me. :

Calaris Studios - founded in 1993 by the brothers Sebastian & Dominik Zielinski, under the name TSA Produkcja Oprogramowania - Programy Autorskie. Their debut was the Amiga top-down shooter Rooster (1994). Four more Amiga games followed - Rooster II (1994), the critically-acclaimed (in Poland) Dan Wilder (1994) and two FPS games - Intercalaris (1995) and Project Battlefield (1995). They then switched to the PC, developing the unpublished NetGuard (1997). NetGuard's engine was subsequently used in Mirage Interactive's Mortyr: 2093-1944 (1999), (although Calaris itself was not officially involved in Mortyr, Sebastian Zielinski was credited as the lead programmer). In late 2001, they begun working with CD Projekt, setting up a separate company (CD Projekt Red Studio, headed by Sebastian Zieliniski) for this purpose. In 2003, Sebastian Zielinski returned to Calaris. Since then, they have made the RTS/RPG The Mysterious Island (2004), the action game Monkey's Adventures (2005, aka Tytus here in Poland - the game is based on a popular Polish comicbook,), and a WWII shooter called Wolfschanze 1944 (2006, aka Wilczy Szaniec in Poland). More recently, Calaris has been working on projects for Frontline Studios, though they remain an independent company. Because they work for Frontline, they do not currently offer any information about their projects on their website.

Found this on IGN:



http://www.ign.com/games/the-mysterious-island/pc-660859