''Sołtys'' (English: ''Mayor'') is a Polish point and click

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which was released for

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on May 23, 1995.

Plot

The player is the head of a village called

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, 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. The developers chose to use typical local humour that Polish players would appreciate, which could be useful in solving some puzzles. ''Sołtys'' was released as freeware in November 2011, at the

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website, in both Polish and English.

Reception

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

References

External links

* {{MobyGames, id=/sotys, name=''Sołtys'' 1995 video games Adventure games DOS games DOS-only games LK Avalon games Point-and-click adventure games ScummVM-supported games Video games developed in Poland