Explore the historical Budapest in a new virtual game! – VIDEO

Lost Budapest is a new entertaining computer game in which players can discover the pre-war face of the Hungarian capital. The adventurous historic game can be downloaded for free in both English and Hungarian languages from 28^th May.

Last year was the 75th anniversary of Budapest’s assault, during which a significant part of the city centre was destroyed. As a result, complete rows of houses disappeared on the banks of the Danube, and dozens of streets became unrecognisable. It is hard to imagine what it could have been like to go around the city at that time, which served as an inspiration for the developers of the new Budapest-themed computer game Lost Budapest – to evoke this experience to the man of today.

The project has been coordinated by Balázs Handler, who graduated as a mechanical engineer at Budapest University of Technology and Economics and recently works in research and development related to aircraft. Balázs, along with his Hungarian team, including engineering students from BME, started the joint work in 2016.

The first version of the game was named the Lost Bridge that focused on Budapest’s important symbol, the Elizabeth Bridge, built in 1903. This has been virtually recreated based on old photos, plans and self-made 3D models. The Hungarian developers soon realised that it might be worthwhile to develop this into a PC game. Accordingly, the virtual game was created with a small story built around it in order to make it more enjoyable. The Lost Bridge has been downloaded more than 3,000 times since March 2020.