Holo Indie Mystery Game HoloTrials: Case Covered Gets Free Steam Release Date
The announcement marks the first concrete release date for a holo Indie title, showing the program moving from branding to actual product delivery.
Reporting from 2 sources: ASCII.jp, PANORA.
CCMC announced that the free mystery adventure game HoloTrials: Case Covered, developed by VTAC Games under the holo Indie brand, will launch on Steam on September 10, 2026. The store page opened on June 30. The game is a fan-made visual novel set in a parallel high school world featuring hololive English talents as students, with exploration, evidence collection, and courtroom battles.
The store page for HoloTrials: Case Covered went live on June 30, and the game itself is set to drop on September 10 at noon JST. It is a free visual novel built around a what-if high school setting where hololive English talents from Myth and Council/Promise become students at HoloHigh. The player takes the role of Watson Amelia, investigating a campus incident that threatens to expel Gawr Gura. Gameplay mixes side-scrolling exploration and point-and-click clue gathering with courtroom-style contradiction spotting. The sprites are fully animated in a lineless 2D style. VTAC Games developed the title, and CCMC published it under the holo Indie derivative game brand. The game supports English only and requires no purchase.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.