Kholat

Jun 26, 2015  The potentially bad news is that Kholat will certainly not be for everyone. Gameplay is restricted to walking, sometimes running (though surprisingly never jumping or climbing) through the environment, picking up the occasional journal page left by the doomed students, contending with a monstrosity who sometimes gives chase, poring over a near-useless map, and visiting specific locales.

Kholat is an indiesurvival horrorvideo 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]

Throughout the game, the player is tasked with finding several pages, including excerpts from the investigator's report and passages from the journal of one of the hikers. The player is chased by several shadow-like creatures.

Reception[edit]

Kholat received mixed to positive reviews from critics. Aggregating review website GameRankings provides an average rating of 64.29% based on 21 reviews,^[7] whereas Metacritic provides an average rating of 64 out of 100 based on 38 reviews, meaning mixed or average reviews.^[8]

References[edit]

1. ^Staff (June 22, 2015). 'Kholat'.
2. ^Ames, Adam (March 13, 2014). 'Listen To the Community: Kholat Interview'. Archived from the original on 2015-10-14.
3. ^Osadchuk, Svetlana (February 19, 2008). 'Mysterious Deaths of 9 Skiers Still Unresolved'. St. Petersburg Times. Archived from the original on February 26, 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-28.
4. ^Eichar, Donnie Dead Mountain: The True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident (Chronicle Books, October 22, 2013, ISBN1-452-11274-6), 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 8 December 2017.
8. ^'Kholat (PC)'. Metacritic. Retrieved 8 December 2017.

Note; the second intro video for this game is based on a true story! These students were actually an expedition in Russia, found dead somewhere in the 50's. The cutting in one of the tents, the spread of bodies, wounds, everything was the exact same as described in the game teaser, wow.I don't really remember but i believe people thought Bigfoot as a potential suspect (lol) in the case. I don't know about bigfoot, but i do know about the dissapearance of these students and the mysterious circumstances.

Very intriguing story. Guess you guys already know or told about this ^^Makes me wanna buy the game. Even when it is not the right time for me, i feel i have to! You mean split-personality?

I thought the main character was just investigating the scene to begin with, but it definitely seems there is more to it than that. I did read it all, but there is a lot to take in and remember, and my memory is never much good when I chop and change games so often!It's just so deliciously vague that people can interpret it in various ways. It's like coming across a tree lying down in the forest. Unless you saw it fall, how do you know it has fallen? I think it's good to have an open mind, even if your imagination can take you to weird places. There is couple of clues suggesting that agent Vitalij Grazeniuk was mentally unstable after investigation the Pass - why? Maybe it is the anomaly?

Papa Sangre II is a survival horror game told entirely through sound. It starts at your inevitable end. You are dead, and must hunt for memories from the deceased to get back to the other side. Trapped in the peculiar afterlife of Papa Sangre, your guide is the voice of Sean Bean. Death for you is just the beginning. Papa Sangre is a horror-themed audio game developed by Somethin' Else for Apple’s iOS devices. The game has been described by the developer as a 'video game with no video' — its environment is rendered exclusively in sound via binaural audio, processed on-the-fly using The Papa Engine, a proprietary audio engine.

Not the monster, or paranormal activities, but just the whole place? It is just making you crazy, and maybe it was the same with the students (of course in the game version of the incident) - you can read in the notes from the girl journal that she heard voices, and later others too heard it. And maybe everything else was just creation of their minds? I didn't ask the writer about the 'real explanation' I want to make my own versions of it.