Holstin, this new psychological horror game has all the questions, concerns, and just a little bit of ’80s horror to get your heartbeat pumping. The town is eroding under your feet, slime dripping over all the walls, and the smell is dank and putrid. At the center of it all is our best friend. As his only hope, you have to find him.. understand why he even came here in the first place, because no.. not even the price of the housing market can make up for the man-eating slime, Bartek. Get out together if you actually can.

So, What’s All This Ooze?

Bad. Dripping and gross and rather not up to the health inspectors’ standard. The town of Jeziorne-Kolonia has really let itself go in Holstin; everywhere you look, that blackness has claimed most of the earth. The people around it pose a bit of a problem for our hero, seeing as he needs to talk to the remaining locals braving their lives through this gunk, and it seems like something else might be playing on their minds, as your kindhearted questions push that insanity deeper into their eyes. The information they have didn’t come without a price.

Such an Interesting Style

Holstin has taken such a fun sorta twist to the pixel art platform, with its lovely hand-drawn backgrounds being able to be seen from 8 different angles, going from third person into first person when you withdraw your gun, which by the way is something your gonna have to do, seeing as monsters humanlike, twisted and haunting you within these corridors as you loot for gear. All they want is to say hello! Just… the courtesy is to meet them with a bullet to the face. Even the gore is rich in texture, which is always a bonus to feature in your nightmares.

I Really Want to Play This

Holstin has a solid plotline, a neat concept that has a lot to explore within it, without the world becoming too big, kinda like the first two Metro games, where you know where and what you’re doing, but there’s still enough life around you, it’s not boring or lacking imagination. The idea of talking to the locals whom the developers are warning have lost their minds is exciting- interesting- will my questions end up in a fight? Will they have deep backstories to explain why they’re staying? What’s waiting?