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Prokhorenko always writes “russia” in lowercase (and requested that the Guardian do so when quoting him), and many Ukrainian developers are in the process of changing Russian words in their games for Ukrainian equivalents – Chernobyl has become Chornobyl, for example, in GSC Game World’s Stalker 2. So games become yet another battleground, in a way.”

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“The idea of a free and independent Ukraine is something that russia despises and wants to erase. “I believe that games are storytelling, and storytelling is how you make ideas survive,” Prokhorenko says. But even these “therapeutic” plays are “weaponised” artworks, he says, devised by people who now split their days between their vocations and volunteering or active military service.

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Ukrainian Farmy casts you as a tractor driver stealing tanks, while Slaputin is about whacking Putin with a sunflower. Some of these games are more “lighthearted”, as Stepan Prokhorenko, one of the organisers of this year’s Ukrainian Games festival on Steam, explains. Other projects include Zero Losses, by horror game studio Marevo Collective, in which you play a Russian soldier destroying the bodies of comrades to prop up the Kremlin’s official casualty figures. Selishcheva is far from the only Ukrainian developer making a game in response to Russia’s struggling assault, which is dragging into its eighth month. They have been treated like objects, so they lose their self-image, lose faith that they are free.” I spoke with a psychologist who helps people with PTSD, and she confirmed that victims of violence, until they heal from trauma, are in a quantum state, between existence and nonexistence. Later I asked her if she was experiencing something similar, and she agreed. “There, inside it, I felt that I was at the same time, there and not there. “I put myself in her place,” Selishcheva says. Some characters flicker different colours, “like lightbulbs that are about to burn out”, as Selishcheva describes them – a depiction of trauma inspired by not just the war, but another woman’s account of harassment. A vivid portrait of life under bombardment … What’s Up in a Kharkiv Bomb Shelter? Photograph: Dahuanna