Since their first member debuted in 2018, Hololive Productions has become one of the biggest names in the streaming scene, with their stable of VTuber streamers becoming worldwide phenomenons. Since all of their talents have accrued a cumulative total of 43 million YouTube subscribers, there is unsurprisingly no shortage of fan art, fan music, and fan games, one of which has been making some major waves. So, what is HoloCure, and how do you play it?
What is HoloCure and How to Play
HoloCure is a Hololive fan game created by animator Kay Yu. Hololive fans out there may know Kay Yu as the principal animator behind Gawr Gura and Mori Calliope’s “Q” music video, so you know they’re a big VTuber fan themselves.
HoloCure is a simple action game heavily inspired by games like Vampire Survivors, but with a distinctly Hololive flavor. You play as one of the VTubers attempting to survive and fight off waves of their own fans and mascots, each with their own attack patterns and stats. Each VTuber has their own weapon and special ability, and by leveling up, you can add new weapons and passive buffs (all inspired by various Hololive memes and in-jokes) to your kit to dominate the battlefield. As you level up your weapons and abilities, you can Awaken them to enhance them further, as well as combine them into special “Collab” items with even wilder effects.
Every play session earns you coins, which you can take to the shop to add permanent buffs, as well as spin the gacha to unlock more characters. Don’t worry, it’s just a fan game, so there are no premium currencies to worry about there. Accomplishing certain milestones with particular characters will also unlock additional weapons and passives to be found while playing.
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In the current version of HoloCure, all of the VTubers from Hololive’s English branch are available to play as. This includes:
- Watson Amelia
- Ninomae Ina’nis
- Gawr Gura
- Mori Calliope
- Takanashi Kiara
- Ouro Kronii
- Ceres Fauna
- Hakos Baelz
- Nanashi Mumei
- Tsukumo Sana
- IRyS
Kay Yu has already announced that the members from the Japanese and Indonesian branches of Hololive will be made playable as well, with the next batch slated to be the members of Hololive GAMERS: Inugami Korone, Nekomata Okayu, Ookami Mio, and Shirakami Fubuki.
HoloCure can be downloaded for free from Kay Yu’s Itch.io page. Any new updates that are released for the game can be downloaded from the same spot; all you have to do is replace the old game files with the new ones. Don’t worry, save files are stored elsewhere on your computer, so you won’t lose progress.
