Moscow-based Step Creative Group announced today that it is working on a sequel to last year's third-person adventure game, Evenings on a Farm Near Diakanka. The sequel, currently dubbed Evening on the Eve of Ivan Kupal Holiday by its developers, features some of the same characters as its predecessor, and the game world has been significantly enlarged.

According to the developer's press release:

The events of game occur several months after Vakula and Oksana (the main characters of the previous game, Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka) have married. Young wife (Oksana) asks her husband (Vacula) to influence the head of the Dikanka village Golova. He doesn't want his daughter, Oksana's best friend, to get married with Petrus — young Cossack from the village, however, unfortunately absolutely penniless.

Summer, heat. The quiet and measured life of the Ukrainian village Dikanka goes by. The Ivan Kupal holiday is quite near. According to the legend, on the night to Ivan Kupal holiday the fern blooms. The one who will be able to get the mysterious flower, obtains powerful possibilities, for example, access to the cursed treasures and, consequently, to innumerable wealth. Petrus dreams to become rich and agrees to the proposal of strange man, who recently arrived in Dikanka...