Sołtys (video game)

Sołtys (English: Mayor) is a Polish pont and click adventure game by LK Avalon which was released for MS-DOS on May 23, 1995.

Plot

The 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

Computer 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.[1]

The developers chose to use typical local humour that Polish players would appreciate, which could be useful in solving some puzzles.[2]

Sołtys was released as freeware on November 26, 2011, at the ScummVM website, in both Polish and English.

Reception

Gry Online gave particular praise to the game's cartoony graphical style.[3] Galu wrote that the games puzzles were more logical than those of its LucasArts predecessors, but that this was its only positive.[4]

References
  1. "Historia z bimbrem w tle". aJa, Rock!. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
  2. "Sołtys". www.komputerswiat.pl (in Polish). 2018-12-19. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
  3. "Sołtys, Soltys PC | GRYOnline.pl". GRY-Online.pl. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
  4. "Galu.info - Ten Greatest Moments in Gaming". www.galu.info. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
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