Holstin is an upcoming indie survival horror game with a really sweet gun trick.
is an upcoming indie horror-adventure game set in eastern Poland in the early 1990s. A small town has been beset by a"calamity" that's engulfing all it touches—people and property alike—and for some reason it's fallen to you to discover what happened to your missing friend Bartek, why he travelled to this strange place, and what sort of wretched horror has overcome it.
It sounds like a fairly straightforward setup as these things go: Scavenge supplies, solve puzzles, deal with the locals , and when things get out of hand, apply violence as required. The mostly third-person perspective and the pixellated visual style gives Holstin a distinctly retro look, but dynamic lighting and a fully 3D environment makes the overall presentation much more modern and immersive.Something is very wrong in the town of Jeziorne-Kolonia.
What really caught our eyes, though, is the way Holstin transitions from the god's-eye view to an over-the-shoulder view for combat. It's weird, and I feel like it shouldn't work, yet somehow it seems like it does. It's quick and smooth, and not at all visually jarring—if anything, it reminds me a little bit of the famous Max PayneDeveloper Sonka shared an even better look at the point-and-click to point-and-shoot transition on Twitter earlier this week.
I don't know how much of a role combat is going to play in Holstin. There's a playtest build available on Steam but it's focused primarily on showcasing the environmental puzzles and"oozing atmosphere." A combat demo was supposed to be available sometime in Q2 of 2023 but that's obviously not going to happen and a more expansive, non-linear demo is expected to follow later this year.
I've reached out to the developers to ask if a new launch target for those demos has been set. In the meantime, speaking of launches, a release date for Holstin hasn't been set but it's available for wishlisting now on Steam.Sign up to get the best content of the week, and great gaming deals, as picked by the editors.Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors
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