Hold the Line
Seven battles of the war in Ukraine. One soldier each. Fought on the ground and by drone feed.
Seven battles. One soldier each. Hold the line. Play the free demo right here in your browser: battles 1 and 2. The full game, with all seven battles and the holdout, is on itch.io for Windows. Hostomel. Bilohorivka. Mariupol. Kharkiv. Bakhmut. Robotyne. Avdiivka. Hold the Line is a grave third-person shooter set in famous battles of the Russo-Ukrainian war. Each battle is told through one soldier and fought two ways: on the ground, in cover, with your squad, and from above, through the feed of the unit's drone. The places, dates and course of each battle are real. The people and units are not. It is hard. You go down after a few hits. Ammo and bandages are scarce. Cover, the drone and the squad are how you get through. The battles Each battle brings the one thing that defined it. - Hostomel airfield, 24 February 2022. Helicopters land troops on the apron. A single-use launcher, two or three shots. A Ka-52 gun run, decoy flares, a hangar that comes down. - Siverskyi Donets, May 2022. They are laying a bridge. Find the crossing from the air and adjust the guns: the first round is off, you call the corrections, shells are few. - Mariupol, March 2022. Three civilians in a basement, the stairs gone. Little ammo, a torch on batteries, dark tunnels, shelling that closes the way. - Kharkiv region, September 2022. Their line has broken. Ride, dismount, clear, remount. Pick up what they left behind. - Bakhmut, winter. House to house. Mouseholes through the walls. Shelling in cycles, …
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