Sołtys (video game)

Sołtys
Publisher(s)	LK Avalon
Platform(s)	DOS
Release	1995
Genre(s)	Adventure

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.

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.[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

Gry 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

1. More accurately, mayor of a village
2. "Historia z bimbrem w tle". aJa, Rock!. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
3. "Sołtys". www.komputerswiat.pl (in Polish). 2018-12-19. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
4. "ScummVM". www.scummvm.org. Retrieved 2022-08-14.
5. "Sołtys, Soltys PC | GRYOnline.pl". GRY-Online.pl. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
6. "Galu.info - Ten Greatest Moments in Gaming". www.galu.info. Retrieved 2019-03-11.

External links

• Sołtys at MobyGames