Liquidator: 3D Action Game

About

Liquidator is a 1998 Russian first-person shooter built on the Build engine, channeling the chaotic energy of late 90s PC gaming. You play as a liquidator tasked with stopping rogue factions from hijacking experimental teleportation tech, blasting through environments that mix industrial ruins and surreal digital landscapes. The game leans into over-the-top action with fast weapon swaps, environmental hazards, and a script that leans hard into 90s Russian sci-fi absurdity. Single-player only, with a focus on straightforward level clearing and power-up hunting. Despite its age, Liquidator has a cult following for its unapologetic 90s grit and campy charm. The pixelated visuals and clunky animations feel like a time capsule, while the dialogue, complete with a presidential address about virtual reality invasions, earns points for audacity. It’s a product of its era, blending DIY mod-like aesthetics with a plot that takes itself just seriously enough to make the nonsense work. Niche, but memorable for fans of retro FPS oddities.

Storyline

In Russia in mid 90's, scientists finally achieved a major breakthrough in the field of teleportation technology into some new reality. In the best traditions of that time to commercialize anything and everything, enterprising people immediately opened their own agency and even began to take excursions to the new reality. But something went wrong, a dangerous situation was created. The result was a new, perhaps even very prestigious profession - liquidator. The reason for the need of such a specialization is quite specific. President Eltsin himself will tell you about it in detail in his special TV address: "...adventurers rushed in droves into the virtual world, but the unexpected happened. The creatures that inhabit the lower realms of virtual reality responded with a powerful confrontation, moreover, a number of aggressive groups managed to capture the teleportation facilities. At the moment the aggressors are preparing to take over our reality. The liquidators' task is to locate the fuel depots and destroy them".