Holstin, a new survival horror set in poland

[HoboForEternity]

http://sonkagames.com/games/holstin/





this looks good and i hope it live up to games like signalis

 

[ADL]

Thank god.

 

[A horse of course]

How is this different to normal life in Poland?

 

[Modron]

I remember stumbling onto their twitter ~2 months ago when they were demonstrating the lighting:

 

[JDR13]

The only horror I see are those pixel art graphics.

 

[kangaxx]

The only horror I see are those pixel art graphics.

Looks OK to me...

 

[Reinhardt]

The only horror I see are those pixel art graphics.

How is this different to normal life in Poland?

 

[vota DC]

How is this different to normal life in Poland?

They had Darkwood for rural Poland, this game Is about urban Poland.

 

[markec]

The footage doenst look scary its just bunch of tentacles on the floor, then again maybe the target audience are Japanese girls.

 

[Modron]

Has a demo now: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2235430/view/3647407179290360506

New Combat Demo and Gameplay Trailer
Hello fellow investigators.

We have some very exciting news from our team.

We have launched an updated demo with our much-awaited combat gameplay.
It took a little longer than we planned but that's because when we got down to it, we decided we wanted to do this right and with some extra flare to really add to the gameplay. What we finally managed to come up with and get working is in our opinion, quite cool.

Check out our new trailer to see our combat in action



Of course, don't just take our word for it. Download the new demo and try it out yourselves! We'll be adding additional language support to part 2 in the next few days while part 1 has been translated for all the languages listed here on Steam.

If you'd like to get even more exclusive access to things we're doing with the game, join our Discord. We share a lot of work-in-progress stuff there and gather feedback from players.



See you down on the other side... hopefully.

 

[Harthwain]

VERY interesting visuals and perspective swaps. I have a soft spot for psychological survival horrors, so I will be watching it. Looks very promising.

Edit:

I finished the demo. I loved the adventure bits - it had interesting puzzles, a nice atmosphere (but lacking some kicks). I hated the shooter/tunnel part though.

The whole second part is literally a tunnel filled with a lot of enemies. Enemies are bullet sponges, headshots don't seem to do much, firing takes stamina, inventory is limited and you don't seem to have a loot chest or the option to drop carried items on the ground. Oh, and you're encouraged to do "stealth" to preserve resources. Except it is easier, safer and better to kick enemies while they are on the ground until their heads burst, then they are blind and are very easy to avoid. In short: the tunnel was more annoying to go through than anything else. I really hope they don't make anything like that in the full game. I'd rather have combat as a break in-between adventure parts, rather than some sort of ham-fisted mass shooter or forced stealth game. Especially when enemies were all pretty much crab-like-zombies (some with strange powers, but still).

If I had to pick between this and CONSCRIPT, the CONSCRIPT is the winner, because it has some psychological horror elements and does combat way more interestingly than Holstin. If Holstin manages to turn the combat part around and keeps the interesting puzzle aspect, I could consider getting it. So right now I am going to keep an eye on it, with some caution (the third part of the demo is supposed to come in later).