Custom campaigns are often set in unspecified locations, so while working on my own Europe-based maps, I got curious about how many custom campaigns exist that are set in actual European places.
After a few days of research (Shoutout to Olde and everyone on the previous post for helping with this) I've mapped out every original custom campaign I found that is confirmed to be set in Europe with the best accuracy I could ensure.
My criteria for this was pretty straightforward. Each campaign must:
- Be set in Europe (Geographically; So regions like Russia and Turkey are included)
- Be a campaign (No Survival- or Scavenge-only maps)
- Be finished (No abandoned projects; Finished ports by third parties are included)
- Be original (No ports from other games)
- Be made for L4D2 (No L4D1-exclusives)
In total, there were a surprising amount of campaigns. Out of these, all fit the respective criteria, with only the following caveats:
- A Baltic Tale is "located somewhere in Scandinavia" by the Baltic Sea, so I put it in Sweden.
- Breakpoint is a WIP, but since it's my project I know it's actively being worked on and will be completed, so it's not abandoned.
- Crunchtime is "situated in a small town in England, UK", but the exact location is not specified.
- Snow Den only states that it's "in a Northern European area" and takes place near a harbor; Its geography is very Norwegian, but the language on various signs is German, so I compromised and put it inbetween them in Denmark.
- Symbyosis is speculated to take place in the creator's hometown, but this is not confirmed.
- Prodeus Requiem takes place in "a fictional Europe country not Rome Italy", so I put it in Rome, Italy.
The locationally ambiguous campaigns are marked in orange, whereas the more reliably confirmed ones are marked in red (With wiggle room cause it's quite difficult to perfectly pin down some of them)
If anyone has more info to help make locations even more precise, please share!