7 /10 1 Votes
Developer(s) IMGN.PRO Initial release date 9 June 2015 Mode Single-player video game | 7/10 Steam Engine Unreal Engine 4 Genre Survival horror | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Platforms PlayStation 4, Microsoft Windows Similar Survival horror games, Other games | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kholat is an indie survival horror video game developed by Polish developers IMGN.PRO, 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, 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). Холатчахль ("Kholat Syakhl") is a transliteration in Russian of Holatchahl, meaning "Dead Mountain" in Mansi.
The game came out on the Steam Store on June 9, 2015. Sean Bean voices the narrator in the game.
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, whereas Metacritic provides an average rating of 64 out of 100 based on 36 reviews, meaning mixed or average reviews.
