Kholat (video game)

Kholat
Developer(s) IMGN.PRO
Engine Unreal Engine 4
Platform(s) Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4
Release date(s)
  • WW: 9 Jun, 2015
Genre(s) Survival horror
Mode(s) Single-player

Kholat is an indie survival horror video game developed by Polish developers IMGN.PRO,[1] in which the player controls a protagonist who is tracing the steps of a group of nine Russian college students who went missing in February 1959 on Kholat Syakhl. The game is based on the Dyatlov Pass incident,[2] a true event that involved ten Russian students, nine of which went missing on Kholat Syakhl and were found dead in the time span of four months (the tenth student had walked back earlier due to illness).[3] Холатчахль ("Kholat Syakhl") is a transliteration in Russian of Holatchahl, meaning "Dead Mountain" in Mansi.[4]

The game came out on the Steam Store on June 9, 2015.[5] Sean Bean voices the narrator in the game.[6]

Critical reception

Kholat received mixed to positive reviews from critics. Aggregating review website GameRankings provides an average rating of 63.75% based on 20 reviews,[7] whereas Metacritic provides an average rating of 64 out of 100 based on 36 reviews, meaning mixed or average reviews.[8] IGN provides a community rating of 7.8 out of 7 ratings.[9][10]

References

  1. ↑ Staff (June 22, 2015). "Kholat".
  2. ↑ Ames, Adam (March 13, 2014). "Listen To the Community: Kholat Interview".
  3. ↑ Osadchuk, Svetlana (February 19, 2008). "Mysterious Deaths of 9 Skiers Still Unresolved". St. Petersburg Times. Retrieved 2008-02-28.
  4. ↑ Eichar, Donnie Dead Mountain: The True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident (Chronicle Books, October 22, 2013, ISBN 1-452-11274-6), p. 19.
  5. ↑ Steam Store page for Kholat, http://store.steampowered.com/app/343710/
  6. ↑ Smith, Adam (June 11, 2015). "Sean Bean's Winter Vacation: Brief Thoughts On Kholat".
  7. ↑ "Kholat (PC)". GameRankings. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
  8. ↑ "Kholat (PC)". Metacritic. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
  9. ↑ "Kholat (PC)". IGN. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
  10. ↑ "Kholat (PC)". IGN. Retrieved 2016-10-09.
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