Kholat
Kholat is a game developed by independent studio IMGN.PRO, inspired by true events known as the "Dyatlov Pass Incident". We follow the path of a group of Russian students, that went for an expedition in the…
Kholat is an adventure developed by IMGN.PRO, released 9 June 2015 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Mac. It currently starts at $4.45 at GameBillet. The main story takes about 4 hrs to finish.
What Kholat is
Kholat is an adventure game developed by IMGN.PRO and released in 2015. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Inspired by the real-life Dyatlov Pass Incident, the story sends the player deep into the frozen Ural Mountains to retrace the final steps of nine Russian students who vanished on Kholat Syakhl, a peak whose name means "Dead Mountain." Guided by a narrator who recounts the details of the tragedy, the protagonist arrives by train in the town of Ivdel and sets out on foot along the doomed party's route. As the weather turns and darkness gathers, strange phenomena begin to appear: glowing orange footprints in the snow, eerie lights, and shadowy humanoid figures. Venturing across a vast and desolate wilderness, the lone traveler must gather scattered notes and coordinates that hint at what…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are horror, mystery, open world and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 20 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Kholat holds a critic score of 66 out of 100. That places it above 27% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 3 points below the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 63, across 76 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 4 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $4.45, that works out to about $1.11 per hour of the main story.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i3, 4 GB RAM and GeForce GTX 470. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 5GB.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $4.45 at GameBillet, 78% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Kholat launched on 9 June 2015, within three weeks of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Batman: Arkham Knight, Splatoon and Heroes of the Storm. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Batman: Arkham Knight, Splatoon, Heroes of the Storm.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Kholat yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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