Esquarian Summit (video game)
| Esquarian Summit | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Oxcart |
| Publisher(s) | Kiber-Iskusstvo |
| Platform(s) | Personal computer |
| Genre(s) | First-person shooter |
| Mode(s) | Multiplayer |
Esquarian Summit is a multiplayer first-person shooter video game developed by Oxcart and published by Kiber-Iskusstvo, released worldwide in 2016.
In Esquarian Summit, players play as world leaders attending the Esquarian Summit eponymous to the title, as well as smaller-circle summits based on their blocs, that are suddenly interrupted by some circumstance requiring that the leaders take up arms and begin fighting, which depends on gamemode. The main PvE gamemode, Riot, is based on the scenario of armed anarchist anti-Summit protestors, or other sorts of terrorists, attacking the summit wave by wave. A team-based PvP gamemode, Brawl, randomly assigns players into 2 teams of up to 8 opposing each other in various objectives depending on settings, with sub-gamemodes featuring mechanics similar to those found in other multiplayer shooters such as capture the flag. In 2018 a battle royale mode was added to Brawl.
The national leaders players play as are ostensibly based on their real life counterparts but are all comedically exaggerated caricatures, based on recent political events surrounding their nations and their personalities. They are gifted with a range of unrealistic abilities to match these caricatures. New characters are being added to match the contemporary composition of national leaderships and currently at least one character from every widely recognized state in Esquarium is present in the game.
Upon release Esquarian Summit featured only maps taking place in actual Esquarian summits but content was steadily expanded including new maps set in meetings outside of the summits such as Esquarian Parliament proceedings, and negotiations for settlement of the situation in Nautasia, alongside constant addition and modification of playable characters.
Due to its aggressive and sharp satire it has been banned, censored or restricted in many countries. Its loot box system has also been criticized and is the cause of several restrictions placed on it in a number of countries to comply with local gambling laws.