Kabus 22

Did You Know?

• The player controls three characters: the Turkish soldier Demir, his girlfriend Ebru, and the mysterious Inzar.
• These characters fight against a despotic religious order and creatures named Maduns in an alternate near future.
• A promotional minigame titled K22: Demolition Day, a free FPS/arcade game, was released on 21 October 2007.

Development

Son Işık, a Turkish studio founded in 2004 by a small team of young developers, began work on Kabus 22 that same year, inspired by survival-horror games such as Resident Evil. Development took three years and faced difficulties: the team had little experience, a limited budget, and limited internet access. Because the Turkish tax code did not recognize video games as a distinct product category, the developers could not obtain a tax stamp to legally sell the game; they were suggested to categorize it as a film instead. With no game publishers in Turkey, the game was distributed by the appliance store chain Vestel. It was released in Turkey on Christmas day 2006, with later international releases in Eastern Europe and Russia. In 2019, after rebranding to Motion Blur, the studio released the game for free on their YouTube channel.