Sołtys (English: Mayor[1]) is a Polish point and click adventure game by LK Avalon which was released for MS-DOS on May 23, 1995.
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| Publisher(s) | LK Avalon |
| Platform(s) | DOS |
| Release | 1995 |
| Genre(s) | Adventure |
Plot
editThe player is the head of a village called Poraż, who must convince Leon, the husband-to-be of the player's daughter, to return to the wedding that he has run away from.
Development
editComputer Laboratory Avalon began life in 1989 as a garage company by two nineteen-year-olds (Tomasz Pazdan and Janusz Pelc) out of their flat in Rzeszów. Their first title was Robbo, and they had issues with distribution, recording the game on second-hand cassettes which they bought from a bookstore and recorded over, and finances. Managing to survive thanks to a large order from Centralna Składnica Harcerska, 6 years later they decided to make Sołtys.[2]
The developers chose to use typical local humour that Polish players would appreciate, which could be useful in solving some puzzles.[3]
Sołtys was released as freeware in November 2011, at the ScummVM website, in both Polish and English.[4]
Reception
editGry Online gave particular praise to the game's cartoony graphical style.[5] Galu wrote that the games puzzles were more logical than those of its LucasArts predecessors, but that this was its only positive.[6]
References
edit- ^ More accurately, mayor of a village
- ^ "Historia z bimbrem w tle". aJa, Rock!. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
- ^ "Sołtys". www.komputerswiat.pl (in Polish). 2018-12-19. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
- ^ "ScummVM". www.scummvm.org. Retrieved 2022-08-14.
- ^ "Sołtys, Soltys PC | GRYOnline.pl". GRY-Online.pl. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
- ^ "Galu.info - Ten Greatest Moments in Gaming". www.galu.info. Retrieved 2019-03-11.