Stepgames Inc. (Step Creative Group)

Russian game developer company. Since 1994. Step Creative Group is a small Russian game developer company that has experienced a stop and start introduction into the gaming industry. Based in Moscow, Step Creative Group first emerged in 1995 with the release of Star Heritage, an adventure game for the now defunct ZX-Spectrum. The demise of the ZX-Spectrum platform, to the advent of the modern PC platform, saw the company shut down and close its doors. In 2003, Step Creative Group was reopened by Yury Matveyev. The company produced a remake of Star Heritage for the PC (Star Heritage 1: The Black Cobra) that became an instant hit. In 2007, the developer released another adventure game in Russian for the PC called Inhabited Island: The Earthling. It was directly based on the novel Prisoner of Power by renowned Russian authors the Strugatsky brothers. The game proved to be so popular in Russia that the company immediately embarked on the task of re-releasing the game in English worldwide.