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• gamedeal user

  Dec 24, 2022

  Video review here! https://youtu.be/whKMIOnrWv0
• Shuxy

  Mar 24, 2023

  The Premise? Incredibly awesome. The Dyatlov Pass Incident has always stood out to me as something freaky and unknown that would be awesome to explore! The atmosphere? Chilling (LOL), the music and atmosphere adds to the tension and creepiness. The music gets a bit too loud sometimes, but that can just be lowered in the options menu. The gameplay? I wish there was a jump button, but I was able to get used to the limited controls and made it work. The only being able to run for 5 seconds thing is a little annoying, but I can work with it. The RANDOM ANOMALY MONSTER THAT KILLS YOU IMMEDIATELY WITHOUT ANY WAY TO PREVENT IT AT MULTIPLE POINTS ON THE MAP WHEN YOU ARE EXPLORING THE GAME? -Dog sh*t After an hour and a half, I'm not wasting any more time with this game. After being killed 5 times, I am done. Immersion broken, and the game is now frustrating and no longer enjoyably. Until they make RANDOM ANOMALY MONSTER removable from the game, I DO NOT recommend this game.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 13, 2023

  -Make a game with a cool premise -Make it a walking sim -Make your walking speed incredibly slow -Make the world largely barren aside from the admittedly cool checkpoint places -Add in a 1-hit KO monster to random places around the world -Make your stamina meter last like 3 seconds. I really don't care enough to complete this one.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 12, 2015

  Not a game for everyone. You will love it or hate it. Kholat is a slow burning eastern European style walking game, in which you try to unravel a strange mystery. It is not an American style horror experience with violence, blood and screeching mutant monstrosities. It is all about atmosphere, tension, ambiguity and story with a good mix of eastern European mysticism and surrealism. I would advise going into the game blind. Dont read some of the longer more detailed reviews, dont watch on you tube, and dont do too much homework on the game. Doing so will spoil the biggest driving factor behind the game: mystery, the unknown and unexpected. This seems like the kind of game that you will know you will like or not. The game is short, and does not outstay its welcome (unlike some other games of this sort). It has excellent sound design and wonderfully fitting musical track, and very well done voice overs. My biggest complaint is performance. While my machine does not meet all the recommended specs, I had very low FPS even running with low resolution and low settings. I would have expected to at least run at medium settings with good FPS. Unless there are some performance patches in the future, I might advise avoiding the game if you dont meet the recommended settings, and dont even bother if you only meet the minimum settings. Additionally the FPS difference between running on high and low was fairly small for me, with high being around the 10s, while low in the 20s. (however it must be noted that even low setting still look quite good, though I would love to experience this game again at 60fps and the highest settings) Despite the poor performance I loved the game, and will probably play it again in 6 or so months. It is a wonderful, chilling and depressing trudge through the snow, truth, reality and the human psyche.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 19, 2015

  EDIT: I wrote this review quite some time ago and I'm not very satisfied with it. A thing I should definetly mention is that the game has a very bad optimization. FPS drops and falling through the map is something you will most likely encounter... [h1]Kholat[/h1] [b]Kholat is a game which can be described as a Horrorgame even though it won't scare you with blood, killers or jumpscares (there are some but it's not worth to mention them...). In the game it's just you and the relentless nature, and this is really really well performed. The sound, the environment and the narrated story parts match perfectly. Because of that the game can carry you along, but not everything on this game is made in an entertaining way, which may lead to some frustration...[/b] [u]For example:[/u][list] [*]The Map shows only the necessaries and if someone isn't used to orient with a compass (me), it is likely to become lost multiple times. [*]Some parts in this game are confusing and even though the developers did this on purpose I believe it's better to know them before you throw the game away as a consequence of frustration, so I'm going to write them in the hidden box. [spoiler] The coordinates you will find along the way don't show your location. They're places worth visiting though. [/spoiler] [*]The strange human looking like monsters are rather annoying than something else.[/list] [b]Even though this game may not be the most entertaining I still recommend it highly, because it thrills you by the force of nature (which many people tend to forget) and this is something unusual, [i]remarkable[/i]...[/b]
• gamedeal user

  Aug 12, 2015

  Just finished the game and . . . wow. I love this game. The game drew me in from the environment to the great story. The environment was really well done for me it is what made a lot of the atmosphere to the game. I did get lost a few times and ended up doing circles but I did not mind. The creatures in the game were a constant threat for you caught glimpses of them here and there from their footprints, yet eventually they would jump out of nowhere and get me. So having the constant looking over my shoulder really reminded me of my nervousness I had in Outlast (although Outlast was straight fear). The other thing I want to mention was the story. I play games for their story and Kholat had an interesting one. Kholat had me constantly trying to figure out what was going on which lead me to collect more and more pages. It was almost like a good book to where you didn’t care what time it was you need to know. Overall the game is immersive with a great environment and a few good jumpscares in there for good measure.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 23, 2015

  I really wanted to like Kholat, because I was really looking forward to it. I thought a game based on the Dyatlov Pass incident had tons of potential to make a great survival horror game. Unfortunately, I guess I didn't do enough research into the game before buying it. Stop me when this sounds familiar: you explore a large, open environment in lighting conditions that aren't always that great, armed with only a flashlight, collecting notes, while avoiding an enemy that instantly kills you if it catches you. If at any point in that sentence you said "Ugh, it's another one of -those- games?", then Kholat is probably not for you, because that's all there is here. There's no puzzles, no resources to manage, just notes. The monster only shows up in certain areas, leaving most of it free to safely gather notes in peaceful tedium, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing, because the monster is just an orange humanoid figure that you practically have to force to attack you unless you have your flashlight on, which is so weak that you're not really that much better off having it on in those areas anyways. He's more of a pebble in your sandal than a thorn in your side, so the parts where you can actually see more than five feet in front of you and don't have to worry about the game totally failing to scare you are welcome moments. As far as the contents of the notes, you may or may not be disappointed there as well. If you were expecting to actually get any concrete explanation of what happened during the incident, you won't get one. If anything the game just adds a layer of fictional mystery onto the already real mystery, and while some people may be into that sort of storytelling, I wasn't a big fan of its presentation. The voice actors do a good job telling it, however - I was kind of disappointed that there was no Russian voice option to make things more authentic, but the English actors do a good job, and they somehow managed to rope Sean Bean into voicing the narrator. The part of the game that I can definitely praise is the visuals. While the game seems to be pretty system-taxing based on what I've seen on the forums, if you can put up the specs to max it out the game looks fantastic, making the non-dangerous parts of the game all the more refreshing to explore. Overall, I'm just writing off Kholat as my yearly "I made a mistake in purchasing this" game, and I can't really recommend it to anyone except note-collectathon enthusiasts, a demographic which continues to baffle me with its existence. There just isn't enough substance to the game to justify its $20 price tag, or even the $13 price tag. It's very pretty, but this time it is just a pretty face.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 28, 2015

  This game isn't that bad. Somehow, it does provide a realistic survival experience which makes this game pretty hard. One thing I need to mention is that the map pretty much doesn't do anything. I strongly suggest that you should try to figure out which way to go by listening to the sound effect or watch out if there is any new events happening around you. Basically, the map only gives you the direction and where you are if you just luckily picked a note to mark your current position on the map. However, it doesn't mean you get lost all the time. I actually accidentally run into places I need to investigate most of time without map.Following right direction or keep moving on the path that you've never reached before would actually lead you to the new place. Most of all, some paths are not marked on map, meaning you have to explore by yourself. I really love the graphic and sound effect of this game. Though, one thing is that it requires a really long long walk among different incident places in order to progress. Afterall, I would say I did have a good time while feeling frustrated playing this game. You might want to give it a try. But, when you find yourself getting lost in the snow, get yourself out of it as fast as you can, because there is something wrong among those mountains and curiosity would not save you at the last moment.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 31, 2015

  I'd give Kholat a flat 9/10 and here's why. It ultimately comes down to a lot of personal preference. The game makes heavy usage of the typical, slow, and unsuspecting explorer, and bases its gameplay on it. It's not a game where you're constantly running away from jump scares like in games such as outlast. If you're looking for jumpscares, this isnt the game for you. It's a more psychological approach to horror. The horror and fear aspect comes from the immersive world Kholat puts you in. The sound of the wind howling, the sound of an old mountain creaking, and the wolf howls in the distance all work together to create a very atmospheric and eerie/dark environment for you to explore. It's very slow paced for the most part, although there are a few faster segments towards the end of the game. The game also explicitly tells you to pay attention to your surroundings, and I didn't truly understand what they meant until I saw massive skulls formed from the rocks, staring right at me as I slowly made my way through a pass. Pros: -Incredible detail to the environment -Eerie sounds make the game even more immersive -Level of helplesness not as high as say outlast -Psychological and introspective -No campaign order (you can travel to any point of interest in any order) Noce for the free roam aspect. -Relatively smooth (Running an i7-4790k, GTX970) Max graphics (looks incredible) @ 1080p ->Average 55-60 fps w/ v-sync on. Occasional frame-rate drop to 40 (not sure why? Rendering environments-shifting from cave to snowstorm maybe? idk) -VOICED BY SEAN BEAN! How badass is that? Cons: -Nothing to do after you finish the game -Lacks replay value (wouldn't play this game multiple times as it's essentially the same exact story) -relatively short game. about 10 hours tops. Sure you can make it last as long as you want if you just wander the paths over and over again. -Feels like the story is unfinished. The game mentions a lot of really interesting conspiracy theory-esque conversations that don't really give closure to the story (that may just be because of the actual story/inciedent game is based off of.) TL;DR: Buy this game if you like immersive horror, don't buy it if you want an outlast-esque game. I definitely reccomend this game if your rig can handle it, and if you're looking for a slower paced immersive game to lose yourself in.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 6, 2016

  Keeping this short, I had high hopes for KHOLAT but sadly the game fails to deliver and stretches what little content it has way too far. You're an explorer wandering the area where the Dylatov Pass Incident (Wiki it, it's a good read) happened, pretty soon you find yourself in the Siberian wilderness at night equiped with a flashlight, compass and a map. You wander around the bitterly cold landscape looking for notes and "anomalies." Sadly, the anomalies are just notes in areas that have some visual interest and change things up from the snowy covered trees and rocks. Around the anomalies are specters (black transparent humanoids) that patrol and try to get you, if they do you're dead. Sneaking by the specters or outrunning them isn't too fun, nor are the particularly scary. And really, most of the horror element stems from them so it doesn't quite work all too well. Travel is a major pain in the ass, you're slow and your sprint is seriously limited. Honestly, it's probably the shortest sprint I've seen in any game I've played. Which ultimately, gets annoying. 90% of the game is just ice, snow, frost, trees, bushes and plants and you grow tired of it fast and just want to sprint your way through, but you can't because of the limited stamina of the main character. If you drain your stamina you're stuck for a couple seconds walking slower than the normal walking pace as your character regains his breath. It's a major annoyance. The map will mark off any notes, anomalies and camps you find, but it doesn't say where the hell you are. I get it, maps don't do that, but this isn't a nitty gritty survival game and it REALLY doesn't need to have a map that doesn't pinpoint exactly where you are. It's terrible and leaves the map almost useless. The last mistake the game makes is that death requires you to restart from the last camp or note you picked up. Yes, in a game where there's nothing to do in between locations of interest and where death can come easily if you die 10 minutes away from your last "checkpoint," enjoy making that massive trip again. After 6+ deaths I'm done and I don't think I'll continue with the rest of the game. I'm a sucker for atmospheric "walking simulators" but this really ups the ante of annoyance which I just can't get behind. If you're looking for one, wait until a sale. Other than that give this a pass.