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Mina the Hollower
Developer Yacht Club Games
Mina the Hollower is a 2026 action-adventure game developed and published by Yacht Club Games. It released on Linux, macOS, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S. Mina the Hollower is inspired by games developed for the Game Boy. It received acclaim and has sold more than 500,000 copies. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
724 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
78
LovedLoved
312 positive · 90 negative
95% range 73–81%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 312 | 90 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 101 | 18 | 123 |
| Mastodon * | 5 | 1 | 39 |
| Lemmy * | 7 | 1 | 27 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
5,926 of 6,661 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
76% recommend · 212 yes, 67 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 279 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (7,730 of 8,762 positive).
Players praise the game's art, music, and world design. [1][2][3] Many find the difficulty polarizing, with some calling it rewarding and others frustrating. [4][5][6] Some reviewers note accessibility options but criticize missing features like dyslexia-friendly fonts. [7][8]
Liked
Representative posts
- [3]
This game is interesting, its easy to see why some will give it a 10/10. The music, artstyle, world design and storytelling are all excellent. They also took alot of risks and where willing to try out mechanics totally new to the genre, unfortunately not all of the new mechanics land well. The centerpiece mechanic is a 'jump into a dodge/dig' that replaces staple mechanics of jumping, running and/or dodging into a …
- [4]
Recommending it but be warned the game can be incredibly frustrating. I'm going to start with some complaints but I promise I do actually enjoy the game and don't need to "git gud." People will defend the game's difficulty but there are a lot of design choices around the combat that just outright confuse me. You can jump over some attacks, you can burrow some attacks, you can deflect some attacks back, but there's …
- [1]
Okay, so I have completed the game twice now, collected every item, done pretty much everything I could in terms of stuff to grab. I still probably have like 60 hours left of doing stuff in this game. This is easily my GOTY thus far and I have extreme doubts it will be topped. The gameplay is immaculate, I love the art and world, Jake Kaufman OST, cute victorian mouse girl, it's really just perfect. I wasn't a huge …
- [2]
A wonderful and charming metroidvania-type game that I'll most definitely come back to for a NG+ in the future, but one that nevertheless does have some glaring flaws. First, the good. The music and art are absolutely fantastic. Immaculate pixel art, world design, and aesthetics, and a soundtrack by Jake Kaufman that's just perfect. The world itself feels vast and infinitely stuffed with secrets to the point of …
- [5]
As with many critically acclaimed difficult games, the reviews are polarized between "This game is amazing" and "This is completely unfair and bad design". If you enjoy the challenge style of this game, it is outstanding. If you don't, you're probably going to be frustrated. The devs really go out of their way to design encounters to punish your habits in the way of enemy and hazard placement (think Sen's Fortress …
Summarised from 34 of the 479 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 9, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
76% of the 279 Steam reviewers we collected recommend Mina the Hollower. The complaint that keeps coming up: frustrating difficulty and trial-and-error combat. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Will Greenwald of PCMag called the game ambitious in a preview, comparing it to "Castlevania meets Zelda" and describing the presentation as "charming". Stating that he was "very impressed" with the game's demo, he called the mechanic of diving into the ground "unusual", but stated that he quickly got used to it as a natural part of gameplay. Thomas Whitehead of Nintendo Life stated that he was ultimately "left excited" by the game after playing the demo, calling it an "excellent return" for the studio after making numerous spin-offs. Alex Stadnik of Game Informer called it a "gorgeous homage". Mina the Hollower received "universal acclaim", according to the review aggregator website…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 724 · most liked firstMina the Hollower has officially gone GOLD! The game is complete and has begun the submissions process with our first-party partners. We’ll know the final release date soon and as soon as we can share it, you’ll know it. Thank you for sticking with us. We can’t wait for you to play!
neutral · AI labelView post →Mina the Hollower from the game Mina the Hollower #MewgleArt
neutral · AI labelView post →Mina the Hollower is our biggest game yet! 🐭🕯️ 20-30 hours. Over 1,200 handcrafted screens. 17 areas. 28 bosses. 60 Trinkets. 5 weapons. 14 Sidearms. So many bones! We’re breaking down the numbers behind Tenebrous Isle! 🎮
neutral · AI labelView post →We took the stage at Summer Game Fest today to unveil a world premiere for our upcoming game, Mina the Hollower. Leaning into Mina’s gothic horror roots, the top-down action adventure game is set to launch on 10/31/25. Play the demo NOW on Steam!
neutral · AI labelView post →Drew some fanart of Mina from Mina the Hollower! 🐭✨ I've been having a blast playing this game so far. #MinatheHollower #YachtClubGames #Fanart
positive · AI labelView post →Finished Mina the Hollower! Very enjoyable game, highly recommend.
positive · AI labelView post →BREAKING: Top-rated game Mina the Hollower has sold 300,000 copies in three days, Yacht Club tells me — an impressive figure that ensures the studio will be just fine for the immediate future, although the co-founders are hoping for more: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
neutral · AI labelView post →🚨ICYMI 🚨 Mina the Hollower is available now on Steam, Nintendo Switch 1|2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Humble Bundle, and GOG! 🥇Mina is currently the highest-rated game of the year, and reading everyone’s reactions has been surreal, emotional, and incredibly exciting!🐭🕯️
neutral · AI labelView post →Mina the Hollower, the game rules #MinaTheHollower
positive · AI labelView post →Hot take: I feel that Mina The Hollower disabling achievements if you have accessibility/difficulty-reducing options on isn't an accessibility issue. It's an issue with achievements. They've broken people. Lots of folks can't enjoy a game unless they fill an arbitrary list of metrics tickboxes.
negative · AI labelView post →NEW: Yacht Club Games needs a hit. In recent years the maker of Shovel Knight has had to lay off staff, pause a 3D project, and delay their next game indefinitely. The good news is that Mina the Hollower could be special. For Businessweek, this is their story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
neutral · AI labelView post →I think it's worth pointing out that very few video-game companies are as transparent as Shovel Knight maker Yacht Club Games, and I appreciate that the studio was so candid about their story and why their next game, Mina the Hollower, has taken so long www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
neutral · AI labelView post →if you hate this kind of shit and want to support studios that put the art of their games over the profit, please consider buying and playing Yacht Club's "Mina the Hollower" when it drops this spring. the studio has staked their independence on its success, and it's their most ambitious game yet
neutral · AI labelView post →Mina the Hollower - Thorne boss battle (LEAKED, REAL, NOT REALLY) But can you imagine though-- Anyway, here's this month's Patreon fanart poll winner, Mina the Hollower! Game looks really fun... www.patreon.com/Felino
neutral · AI labelView post →Some fan art of Mina the Hollower. I'm still not sure how well I actually like the game, but Mina herself is endearing, and the aesthetic is appealing. I'm willing to give any game with a mouse protagonist a try.
neutral · AI labelView post →just finished 100%ing Mina the Hollower!! what a fantastic game, I hope the team sells another 500k copies!! 🐭💕
positive · AI labelView post →Wave 1 of our official Mina the Hollower collection is here! Shirts, pins, and plushes are available now: www.fangamer.com/collections/...
neutral · AI labelView post →On Monday, Yacht Club Games delayed the much-anticipated upcoming game Mina the Hollower. On Tuesday, I visited their studio and saw the game. It made for a rare glimpse at why a video game gets delayed and what "polish" actually means. This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
neutral · AI labelView post →finally getting into a groove with “Mina the Hollower” and folks this game absolutely rules. it’s hard as hell but extremely rewarding when you solve a puzzle or beat a boss or just discover something new
positive · AI labelView post →Evidence that Mina the Hollower is an Indy Game. 🐭
neutral · AI labelView post →I would put this review down as neutral if I could. Okay anyway here's my take so far. The game frustrated me within the two hours I've played enough to say "♥♥♥♥ this" and put it down for the evening and this is a bad sign, especially for a backer who's been looking forward to it. Difficulty is not a thing that repels me, and the earnest difficulty of this doesn't bother me. But there's a number of things that just irk me up the damn wall. Firstly, I have become doubtful that Dark…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hey folks, how about a short thread of upcoming games I'm looking forward to? 1. Mina the Hollower The new game from Shovel Knight developers Yacht Club, I've been eagerly anticipating this one, it looks so good! Love that there's a few games lately that have that Gameboy colour vibe going on.
neutral · AI labelView post →Curious how we approached Mina’s pixel art? 🎨 We’re resurfacing an old Mina the Hollower Kickstarter update about how we tackled Game Boy Color-inspired sprite sizes, palettes, and visual restrictions. 🐭🕯️ Check it out in the link below! 🧵
neutral · AI labelView post →Mina the Hollower just hit #1 on the Switch 2 eShop (US). It's the first non-Nintendo published game to do so in a long time. Yacht Club Games should be very happy with that!
neutral · AI labelView post →I started tearing up while playing the first stage of Mina the Hollower because of how peak the game is and I'm still trying to process that?
positive · AI labelView post →Link's Awakening DX, Dark Souls and Castlevania had a baby and it is magnificent.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Mina The Hollower really fun game. I also like how she doesn't wear any pants. Very good addition.
positive · AI labelView post →Mina the Hollower piece done for @foxceptional.bsky.social ! ==== Should probably play this game at some point. CW: Vore, Bones
neutral · AI labelView post →great game, but even though i am overall having a blast i cannot recommend this game in good faith due to the lack of epilepsy warnings paired with the lack of a setting to disable the bright white eye-piercing screen flashes that this game frequently has (especially during cutscenes, bosses, and the proto spark trinket) i want to give it a positive review and i will change it if there is some way to disable screen flashing
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A little Mina The Hollower animation I made when the game got announced. #pixelart
neutral · AI labelView post →PSA: Mina the Hollower seems to run perfectly on Game Native if you’ve got an Android device you’d like to play it on. 🤓
neutral · AI labelView post →Recommending it but be warned the game can be incredibly frustrating. I'm going to start with some complaints but I promise I do actually enjoy the game and don't need to "git gud." People will defend the game's difficulty but there are a lot of design choices around the combat that just outright confuse me. You can jump over some attacks, you can burrow some attacks, you can deflect some attacks back, but there's no indication on any attacks which way you're supposed to avoid the damage. It…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As with many critically acclaimed difficult games, the reviews are polarized between "This game is amazing" and "This is completely unfair and bad design". If you enjoy the challenge style of this game, it is outstanding. If you don't, you're probably going to be frustrated. The devs really go out of their way to design encounters to punish your habits in the way of enemy and hazard placement (think Sen's Fortress in Dark Soul 1). Platforming is often done under pressure and demands a good…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun Fact: Mina the Hollower is larger than ALL Shovel Knight titles in Treasure Trove combined... 😱 Total Game Screens Shovel of Hope/Plague of Shadows: 409 Specter of Torment: 433 King of Cards: 397 Mina the Hollower: 1246 ❗❗❗❗
neutral · AI labelView post →"Dear Mina..." A (little) Mina the Hollower fanart! I am weak for little mouse gals,,, (even tho the game is kicking me hard xD) #fanart #minathehollower #digitalillustration #digitalartist #fanartfriday
neutral · AI labelView post →Mina the Hollower is a great game, I just wish she could get stuck in the underlab geyser and pop back into the overworld as an overblown water balloon
positive · AI labelView post →Mina the Hollower links 40 years of video game history together in one design tour de force that basks in the joy of secret hunting. An adventure game that’s secretly kind of a puzzle game, and one that I just wanted to dive into over and over. My review. www.polygon.com/mina-the-hol...
positive · AI labelView post →This game is interesting, its easy to see why some will give it a 10/10. The music, artstyle, world design and storytelling are all excellent. They also took alot of risks and where willing to try out mechanics totally new to the genre, unfortunately not all of the new mechanics land well. The centerpiece mechanic is a 'jump into a dodge/dig' that replaces staple mechanics of jumping, running and/or dodging into a one input mechanic that is definitely one that is not going to click for…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Mina the Hollower Demo available on Steam (game is out Oct 31) store.steampowered.com/app/3741460/...
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally Mina the hollower is OUT!!!! 🐭🌕🦇 I am not immune to mouse propaganda, doesn't help the game is fun!! so here's my fanart for the celebration #digitalart #fanart #minathehollower #mouse #anthro
positive · AI labelView post →Mina the Hollower from the new game that came out (Not my fault she is so adorb) #minathehollower #fanart #indiegaming #digitalart #mouse
neutral · AI labelView post →Mina the Hollower, an action game reminiscent of Zelda: Link's Awakening, started off as a side project that the studio thought would take a year or two. It's now been in the works for nearly six years. This is the story of why it took so long and what it all means: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
neutral · AI labelView post →MINA THE HOLLOWER YACHT CLUB GAMES 2026 (Shot on Game Boy Camera, on Game Boy Pocket)
neutral · AI labelView post →Mina the Hollower is out today! I've been anticipating this game for YEARS. To celebrate, I drew fan art with my OCs as Mina and Baron Lionel 🥰
positive · AI labelView post →Going live with Mina the Hollower. My excitement for this game has been elevated in multiple waves, hearing first that it was a new Yacht Club game, then hearing it's like old GameBoy Zeldas, and then hearing it's kind of 2D Bloodborne. youtube.com/live/m4EzEkr...
positive · AI labelView post →Mina the Hollower reviews are in! IGN - FUUUCK!! I HATE IT!! GamesRadar - FUUUCK!! I HATE IT!! Metacritic - FUUUCK!! I HATE IT!! Gamespot - FUUUCK!! I HATE IT!! NintendoLife - FUUUCK!! I HATE IT!! Game Informer - FUUUCK!! I HATE IT!! My Mom - FUUUCK!! I HATE IT!!
neutral · AI labelView post →Don't buy if you have a reading disability. Honestly, the game is great, very challenging, good looking and fun during the time I have played, but the font of ALL OF THE TEXT IN THE GAME is nearly unreadable with my dyslexia. With all of the accessibility options they put in the game, it seems like they could at least add a dyslexic friendly font. Once we get that, Id flip it back to a thumbs up but I cant recommend a game I cant read
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Mina The Hollower Is Now Metacritic's Highest-Rated Game Of 2026.
neutral · AI labelView post →very excited for the new oracle zelda game, i mean bloodborne demake, i mean hollow knight, i mean- #myart #minathehollower
neutral · AI labelView post →Im a big fan of retro games, enjoyed Shovel Knight a lot, and love the visual and audial presentation of Mina the Hollower. But there are so many confusing design decisions that contradict each other. You pick one of three different weapons at the beginning and as of 3 hours into the game, I haven't gotten an option to pick one of the other two. Each weapon changes how you approach combat, but then you're locked into a weapon (and therefore playstyle) before ever seeing your first enemy. You…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I finished Mina the Hollower 100%! (Plus short review). Finally finished everything in the game! Unless something incredible comes out of nowhere, this is my game of the year. **Short Review** Mina the Hollower is a retro top-down adventure game, it's a mix between Zelda, Castlevania, and Bloodborne - with references to all three in particular. The game is just fantastic all around. The combat is tight, the music and art are incredible, and the horror atmosphere of the whole…
positive · AI labelView post →Finally had the chance to finish playing through Mina the Hollower, and what a fun, charming game, definitely gonna replay it more times~ #MuriNeedsArt
positive · AI labelView post →I hope when Mina The Hollower comes out it's good and a big success and the developers Yacht Club are happy, really wishing good things for this game.
positive · AI labelView post →Mina the Hollower is a very good game:
positive · AI labelView post →Mina the Hollower has been a delightful experience so far! Might be my Game of the Year. Also made me finally appreciate mice!
positive · AI labelView post →I'm not sure about this one. I've enjoyed it a fair bit, and I'm close to done. Yet every time I play, it seems to get less fun. At this point, until further notice, I'm just not feeling it. Mina really frontloads its difficulty. The combat and platforming are both tough at the start which may filter out a lot of players, but it gets really easy toward the end thanks to forgiving progression systems and powerful equipment. Mina is so powerful it's hard to call it a Soulslike despite having…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is one of those games yet again where I wish I could give a mixed review. Mina the Hollower is not bad, but it is heavily flawed in ways that make me very sad. This game is incredibly frontloaded with difficulty, and then once you start gaining the trinkets you can generally facetank about a solid 85% of the game. I even managed to facetank the final boss of the game. You also can level up, and leveling up is very easy to do as you can grind the currency of the game "bones" super fast.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Mina The Hollower: The Mouse of All Time (MOAT for short) #MinaTheHollower #YachtClubGames #Fanart #Art #OrangeInkArt
neutral · AI labelView post →Okay, so I have completed the game twice now, collected every item, done pretty much everything I could in terms of stuff to grab. I still probably have like 60 hours left of doing stuff in this game. This is easily my GOTY thus far and I have extreme doubts it will be topped. The gameplay is immaculate, I love the art and world, Jake Kaufman OST, cute victorian mouse girl, it's really just perfect. I wasn't a huge fan of 2D Zelda going into this. I just didn't grow up with it and never…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you have played a souls game this is less punishing than that. The negative reviews main complaint is the punishing nature of the game (which is really not as punishing as they say) The game gives plenty of checkpoints even right before difficult bosses, making runbacks nonexistent. I assume people see the little funny mouse character and buy it without looking deeper into the product. Like going into Hollow Knight expecting a walking simulator. Some things in the game could be better,…
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