Redeemer is a Beat 'em Up game developed by Sobaka Studio and Buka Entertainment in 2017.
The main character is Vasily, a former soldier of the Russian army. For years, he worked in private security for Alta-Tek, a rich and powerful multinational corporation that produces armaments and advanced technologies. He conducted their dirty work, including targeted killings, kidnappings, torture, and extortion. Eventually, Vasily grew uncomfortable working for the leaders of Alta-Tek, who subsequently tried to have him assassinated. He fled Russia, hiding in a Buddhist monastery of Shaolin monks in China for 20 years.
However, Alta-Tek discovers the existence of the monastery and destroys it while hunting down Vasily. He decides to take revenge, fighting Alta-Tek using any means necessary.
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- 20 Minutes into the Future: Redeemer is set in 2040.
- Bioweapon Beast: Mutant creatures and beasts created in the Alta-Tek laboratories are either failed experiments or Super Mutants to be used as weapons of war.
- Bloodier and Gorier: Fighting during gameplay is often brutal and bloody, featuring battles using fisticuffs, cutting weapons, and firearms.
- Combat Pragmatist: If it can be picked up and used to clobber enemies with, Vasily will pick it up and use it; if it can't be picked up, he'll slam an enemy into it.
- Elite Mook: The elite and high-ranking members of the Iblis Unit consist of martial arts and infantry experts sporting armor and heavy weapons.
- The Evil Army: The Unit Irbis turns out to be a cruel and ruthless army, which conducts military operations to defend and protect the affairs and interests of Alta-Tek. Their activities involve torture, massacres, extortion, and kidnapping of Alta-Tek's enemies.
- Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke: By the year 2040, genetic engineering and biotechnology have become widespread, with Alta-Tek conducting experiments in advanced biogenetics. This leads to the creation of biogenic mutants of every species.
- Gorn: While fighting, Vasily exploits the surrounding environment to kill his opponents (both Alta-Tek soldiers and ferocious mutants) in imaginative ways. Among other things, he electrocutes his foes with charged cables, throws soldiers off a suspension bridge, uses circular saws to hack his enemies to pieces, and slices his adversaries up with spinning airplane propellers.
- He's Back!: After escaping from Alta-Tek, Vasily hid for 20 years in a Chinese Buddhist monastery. When the corporation's agents discover his whereabouts, Vasily is forced back into action.
- Improvised Weapon: Vasily makes extensive use of extemporized weaponry, including wooden sticks, axes, knives, truncheons, and crates. He can literally turn anything into an agent of destruction.
- Living Weapon: The Bio Genetic Mutants of the Alta-Tek laboratories are designed to be used as living weapons.
- MegaCorp: Alta-Tek (also known variously as Altaj-Tek, Altaj Technology, or Altaiskie Teknologij) is a Russian multinational corporation, based in Barnaul and founded by a rich and powerful Russian oligarch in 2019. They specialize in advanced technologies, genetics, and cybernetics — especially military cybernetics, becoming the largest supplier of such technologies to the Russian army. The company turns unscrupulous decades later, creating their own private army to perform targeted killings, kidnappings, torture, and extortion.
- Mutants: In the biogenetic laboratories of Alta-Tek, numerous experiments in advanced genetics have led to the creation of genetic mutants of every species, genus, and type.
- N.G.O. Superpower: Alta-Tek has become a rich and powerful multinational company, able to thwart its rivals and competitors while becoming the richest and most dominant corporation in Russia. By the year 2040, they are a sovereign body in their own right — as influential as the Russian government itself.
- One-Man Army: During gameplay, Vasily becomes an immortal and solitary wrecking crew, able to take on the entire private Alta-Tek army and hordes of biological mutants single-handedly.
- Private Military Contractors: The Irbis Unit, the private army of Alta-Tek, is a military force in its own right. Composed of former soldiers of the Russian army and one-time Russian and Serbian mercenaries, the nucleus of the Iblis Unit was active in a war in Serbia in 2022. Over the years, they have acquired sophisticated weapons and advanced technologies furnished by Alta-Tek, becoming Vasily's biggest adversary.
- Redshirt Army: Vasily is able to kill off the Iblis Unit with ease.
