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Key art: the huntress mid-throw at the edge of the black lake as the three-headed Black Dog rises out of the water, the Wheel of Lamps glowing far behind
Gothic Metroidvania · Action RPG

Hunt the Hollow. Take back what it took.

  • December 7, 2026
  • Steam
  • Windows · macOS · Linux
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Release
December 7, 2026
On Steam
Win · Mac · Linux
Price
$19.99
Players
Single-player
The Hollow

Something is eating the valley

The Hollow came up out of the black lake and spread down the river road, and where it goes the years come loose.

A frontier fort is stuck in the night after a raid. A county seat burns forever. A coal camp freezes in the winter of the explosions. A lakeside amusement park runs its lights over the water and never closes. The valley’s great creatures are full of it now: a three-headed black dog, a hellbender the size of a flatboat, a two-headed eagle rotting in the sky.

She wakes under the great sycamore, weak, with pieces of her missing. She picks up her tomahawks and goes hunting.

Painting: the huntress kneels in the Heartwood before the old sycamore, its face in the bark, lanterns hanging in its roots
The Heartwood · where she wakes
How it plays

Symphony of the Night horror, in the Appalachian mountains

Key art: the huntress seen from behind, a tomahawk in each hand, holding her ground as the Black Dog's three mismatched heads rise over her
I.

Break them. Become them.

Every boss she breaks gives back a piece of her. Every creature she frees gives her its shape.

Five forms. Each one opens the map, and each one fights.

  • The Black DogRun on three sets of jaws. Charge through cracked walls and logjams, and tear armor off anything big.
  • The Carrion EagleTake the sky on rotting wings. Two heads, two screams, and a dive that breaks what it touches.
  • The MistDrift through bars, grates and battlefield fog. Blows pass through you. Ride a monster from the inside.
  • The HellbenderSwim the river and the flooded rooms, cling to wet rock, and drag big things under.
  • The RootSink into the soil, move under everything, and burst up into whatever is standing on you.
Gameplay: an armor plate bursts off the Ironclad in a shower of sparks against a burning sunset
Gameplay: the Ironclad's full-screen painted super move tears through the arena while the huntress braces below
II.

Massive, and they come apart

The enemies are huge, and they break.

Plates fly off, limbs go, and they fight differently without them. Every boss has a tell you can learn, a window you can punish, and a painted super move that takes over the screen. More than twenty of them wait along the river road.

Open the bestiary

Painting: the frost-bound Bluestone valley at first light, the river winding between dark ridges
Gameplay: the huntress climbs wooden stairs at a dark midway as a lamp-spider hangs in the air
III.

One valley. Every bad year at once.

One connected, hand-painted valley, and then the whole map again, turned upside down.

Frontier bottomland and burying grounds, a burning county seat, coal camps in the snow, and a lakeside midway that never closes. Every place is painted by hand.

Walk the valley

Gameplay: a mossy stone statue of an armored smith with a plow, standing over the huntress at sunset
Gameplay: the huntress meets a townsman on a foggy lane beside a log stockade
IV.

Towns that lie to you

Four towns, each stuck in its worst year. Some people tell the truth. Some lie. Some grieve. Some are ghosts who don’t know it yet.

Shops, inns, barter and tasks. Sleep at the inn and the night brings out different people. And the oldest tree in every area talks: ask once for a story, twice for the way on.

Gameplay: a burst of gold light erupts from a felled root creature as the huntress levels up
V.

Grow stronger the old way

Levels, gear, drops, and parts you break off monsters to forge with.

Tomahawks to throw and call back, then axes, swords, shields and more. Spells with command inputs. The kill that levels you up goes off in gold.

Trailer

The first look

The trailer is being cut

It lands here first. Until then, every screenshot below comes straight from the game.

Screenshots

Straight from the game

Captured from the release build, with the real interface.

All media and wallpapers

The bestiary

What the Hollow took

The valley’s old stories, possessed and swollen. Every one has a past, and the townsfolk and the trees will tell it before you get there.

Every boss and creature

Features

What’s in the valley

  1. One connected, hand-painted valley, and then the whole map again, turned upside down.
  2. Five creature forms, earned from bosses. Each one opens the map, and each one fights.
  3. Massive enemies that come apart: armor, limbs and heads break off and change the fight.
  4. More than twenty bosses, each with readable patterns and a full-screen painted super.
  5. Tomahawks to throw and call back, then axes, swords, shields and more. Spells with command inputs.
  6. Four towns, each stuck in a different year, with shops, inns, barter, tasks, and people who lie.
  7. Levels, gear, drops, and parts you break off monsters to forge with.
  8. One story, found and never taught. Ignore it and you have an action game. Dig and you find everything.
  9. An original score by Mitch.
  10. Full controller support and remapping. Reduce-flashes, screen shake, text size, HUD size, subtitles and blood settings.

Hunt the Hollow. Take back what it took.

  • December 7, 2026
  • $19.99
  • Steam · Windows · macOS · Linux
Wishlist on SteamPlaceholder · the Steam page opens before December 7, 2026