Graffiti mocking the Student Council President appears on the walls of HoloHigh, and your best friend is caught holding the paint. You play Amelia Watson, debate-club member and the school’s sharpest detective, investigating the campus in a sidescrolling view, switching to first person to examine hot spots, gathering evidence and defending Gawr Gura in a full school trial. The cast is HoloEN’s Myth and Council reimagined as students, drawn in a lineless art style.

Chart credential: new entry at #17 on the Steam 250 seven-day chart, scoring 7.41 from 62 reviews. Released 9 September 2026.

Key features

Two camera modes doing two different jobs

Travel happens in a sidescroller; examination happens in first person. Splitting them keeps the map readable while still allowing the slow, pixel-hunting attention an evidence scene needs — a single camera would have to compromise one or the other, and most low-budget adventure games pick wrong.

A trial that actually resolves the investigation

Evidence you gather is argued in a full school trial rather than being checked off a list. That structure is what gives searching a cost: a clue you skipped becomes a hole in your case later, so the investigation phase carries real consequence instead of being a gate.

Free, fully voiced, and short enough to finish

The game is free to play with full English audio and Spanish localisation. For a licensed fan production, being free is the distribution strategy — it removes the only barrier between a curious viewer and the thing being advertised, which is why holo Indie releases tend to over-perform their review counts.

Where to find it

HoloTrials: Case Covered is free on Steam, with Windows and macOS builds. Published under the holo Indie label.
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