Kholat (video game)
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| Developer(s) | IMGN.PRO |
| Engine | Unreal Engine 4 |
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| Genre(s) | Survival horror |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Kholat is a survival horror game developed by 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 was released for Windows on 9 June 2015. It was released on the Nintendo Switch on 14 May 2020. It was also released in Japan on 17 September 2020, via Phoenixx.