Sołtys (video game)

Sołtys (English: Mayor^[2]) is a Polish point and click adventure game by LK Avalon which was released for MS-DOS on May 23, 1995.

Sołtys
Publisher	LK Avalon
Platforms	DOS, Amiga[1]
Release	1995
Genre	Adventure

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.^[3]

The developers chose to use typical local humour that Polish players would appreciate, which could be useful in solving some puzzles.^[4]

Sołtys was released as freeware in November 2011, at the ScummVM website, in both Polish and English.^[5]

Reception

Gry Online gave particular praise to the game's cartoony graphical style.^[6] Galu wrote that the games puzzles were more logical than those of its LucasArts predecessors, but that this was its only positive.^[7]