HoloCure: Save the Fans!

> In the year 20XX, an unexpected online takeover began. A new group of idols surfaced on the internet, known as virtual idols. People were skeptical at first, but over time, these virtual idols gathered many fans. However, one day an evil force came in and took advantage of the fans and their love. The evil force brainwashed the fans, turning them into mindless minions blinded by their own love. The vtubers knew they had to help their fans come back to their senses. And thus began their quest... ...to save the fans!
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> Intro sequence

**HoloCure: Save the Fans!** (shortened to **HoloCure**) is a completely free unofficial fan game featuring *hololive* VTuber talents, chiefly developed by Kay Yu. It draws heavy inspiration from existing 2D pixel-style roguelite games, *Vampire Survivors* and *Magic Survival*.

The game was first released as a demo on itch.io on 24th June 2022, and was released on Steam on 16th August 2023. The game is currently still in development.

## Gameplay

The player controls a character based on one of dozens of *hololive* talents to fend off waves of various *hololive* fan mascots and characters, who were turned into their enemies by an unknown evil force.

Defeating enemies grants EXP, allowing the character to obtain and upgrade a wide variety of different *hololive*-themed weapons and items to aid them in their mission. Enemies also occasionally drop HoloCoins, which can be used to obtain new characters via Character Gacha or buy Upgrades for future attempts.

## History

### Inception

On 11th March 2022, Kay Yu posted a tweet mentioning the game for the first time, then known as ***Holo Fan Love!***. The teaser video attached to the tweet showed all 5 *hololive English -Myth-* members as playable characters, with enemies ranging from certain holoEN fan mascots to Fubuzilla, as well as showcases of some weapons themed after *hololive* talents.

Kay Yu revealed in a Tweet thread about long-term plans to implement every talent in *hololive Productions*, on top of an envisioned demo release consisting of completed main game features, the 5 talents of *holoMyth* and a few bosses, slated to release in roughly two to three weeks as of posting.

### Release and Public Reception

On 24th June 2022, the first official build of the game was released with several bug fix patches uploaded a few hours later.

On 25th June 2022, Kay Yu reported on Twitter that the game has officially reached 50,000 downloads. In the same Twitter thread, Kay Yu also stated that the official leaderboards will be indefinitely turned off due to the sheer volume of users. Kay Yu reported that, within 24 hours of the game's release, the leaderboards were already consuming 20GB worth of data. On the same day, hololive talent Usada Pekora streamed the game which reportedly caused the download count to increase to 130,000 downloads.

On 29th June 2022, Kay Yu commented on Reddit that the game has almost hit 500,000 downloads.

## Development Team

The development team is spearheaded by Kay Yu, with help with Seirai for programming and Jeremy Hobbs for the user interface. Kay Yu also credited DuduL for visual effects help and eufrik for the composition of hololive song remixes specially for the game.

The following are the people involved with the development of the game as they appear in the Credits screen:

* **Programmers**: Seirai, nullrefrepro
* **Animators**: DuDuL, Smpletan, Caliyaki, Kaitsu
* **Illustrators**: Potato7192
* **UI**: Jeremy Hobbs (Ribbon Black)
* **Music**: Eufrik, Patterns, Raining Marbles
* **Translators**:
	+ **Japanese:** ハイテンションガイジン(HaiGai), Miss Wendi Gogh
	+ **Indonesian:** Minyak Sayur, D.D. Investigator, Pincen
* **QA**: Avi 'Sinful' Mishra, Scorchedwing, Erg, Katomon, Carmatime, Kaitsu, Cremepuff, Tsubi, Zenora, Caliyaki
* **Special Thanks:** Walfie, 2Snacks, Dex, Furaisen, SeafoamBoi, Sausage Legend (Milk Co)

## Original Soundtrack

On 27th June 2022, Eufrik posted on Twitter that the HoloCure original soundtrack (OST) is available on to listen to on Youtube. The Youtube playlist contains eight tracks: Intro (Save the Fans), Shiny Smily Story, and Suspect.

## Gallery

Intro Sequence 1Intro Sequence 2Intro Sequence 3Intro Sequence 4Intro Sequence 5Intro Sequence 6
## References

1. ↑ "decided to take a break from animating and ..."
2. ↑ "for now, we just have the 5 Myth girls, but..."
3. ↑ "Btw, our current plan is to complete..."
4. ↑ "We anticipated maybe a few thousand people..."
5. ↑ "However, it's super unfortunate, but for now..."
6. ↑ "We anticipated maybe a few thousand people to play..."
7. ↑ "Ever since Pekora played it this morning..."
8. ↑ "We are now almost at about 500k downloads."
9. ↑ "HoloCure OST is now up on my youtube channel!"
10. ↑ HoloCure OST on Youtube