HODKA Announced by Skystone Games, a Taiga Van Adventure for PC
Flazm built its reputation on Train Valley and Scrap Garden, and HODKA puts the studio behind an open-world driving game with a day and night survival loop, a genre shift with a Steam store page already promising Japanese text.
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Skystone Games announced HODKA on September 21, developed by Lithuanian studio Flazm. The PC (Steam) game is planned for 2027 and follows a player driving a battered van across an unmapped taiga to find a missing uncle, scavenging junk with a metal detector by day while fog and an unknown threat close in at night.
Skystone Games announced HODKA on September 21, with Flazm developing for PC (Steam) and a 2027 release planned. The taiga is unmapped, the residents are cold to outsiders, and the uncle the player is tracking is missing.
Daylight goes to metal detecting and digging, handled as a minigame with items laid out on a square grid that fill the van as space allows. Metal detecting and digging pass time, and the day and night cycle brings thicker fog at night. The store page shows something like a giant hand rising from the ground toward the van.
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