Hollow

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User Score
4.4

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 63 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 63
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 63
  3. Negative: 31 out of 63

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  1. ishyne
    Feb 28, 2018
    1
    The reivews here are kind of suspect. The game seems rushed, half baked and unfinished. Graphics are tough to look at. If Doom could be done properly on Switch there is no excuse. The story is hard to follow. It is hard to see anything in the dark enviorments and when the flashlight is on it makes it impossible to see sometimes. Also your character moves at only 2 speeds slow and extremelyThe reivews here are kind of suspect. The game seems rushed, half baked and unfinished. Graphics are tough to look at. If Doom could be done properly on Switch there is no excuse. The story is hard to follow. It is hard to see anything in the dark enviorments and when the flashlight is on it makes it impossible to see sometimes. Also your character moves at only 2 speeds slow and extremely slow. Half the time your shots will miss at point blank range against enemies. I was very excited for this game as it looked interesting so i bought it first day. Save your money. Don't make the same mistake I did. Do not buy!!! Unless the developer releases an update to fix alot of these issues. There are a ton of better games on Switch for $20 or under.… Expand
  2. EnriqueAcevedo
    Nov 22, 2018
    4
    What a disappointment of game... maybe I was waiting too much of this game... the price is too high for a very short game and the gameplay is akward... not recommendable
  3. haaku
    Nov 17, 2018
    0
    This game isn't even worth think about. The frames are SO poor, even my old 486 could show more. Seriously. Most of the time the game has maybe 15 -20 frames. With MSAA on LOW. And if that wouldn't be enough, the models from "enemies" are so ridicoulus poor made... Even the animations. Everything looks choppy and laggy. Not meant to be a horror style.. No it's just crap. I am really regretThis game isn't even worth think about. The frames are SO poor, even my old 486 could show more. Seriously. Most of the time the game has maybe 15 -20 frames. With MSAA on LOW. And if that wouldn't be enough, the models from "enemies" are so ridicoulus poor made... Even the animations. Everything looks choppy and laggy. Not meant to be a horror style.. No it's just crap. I am really regret to spend 8€ for that piece of.... something. And if that all wouldn't be a nail for the coffin, the worst is taht you have some kind of "helmet camera" effect ALL THE TIME. You never have a clear view. You are always looking through a flcikering, badly made helmet camera and you can'T even turn that off. Seriously. Do not buy this game unless you are drunk and you want to make fun of it. It's just not worth the money. I would rather go and play more No mans sky then play 20 more minutes of that horror game. And not horror because of the atmosphere. I mean horror regarding the poorly programmed and made game. Oh and don'T get me started with the SLOOOOOOW movement speed... What a shame of a game... It'S not a game, it's an early alpha of an early access game. Bah… Expand
  4. YaBoiUli
    May 3, 2019
    3
    Imagine everything that could've gone wrong with Dead Space and this is basically what you get. [The Short Version] I didn't like this game at all. It wanted to be sexual for some reason with naked alien zombie women, combat is clunky but ok I guess, the game just looks ugly, UI is terrible, and the cutscenes don't work. Stay away from this game and buy something else. p.s. These positiveImagine everything that could've gone wrong with Dead Space and this is basically what you get. [The Short Version] I didn't like this game at all. It wanted to be sexual for some reason with naked alien zombie women, combat is clunky but ok I guess, the game just looks ugly, UI is terrible, and the cutscenes don't work. Stay away from this game and buy something else. p.s. These positive reviews are lookin' kind sus......................................... [My Gameplay Experience] Hollow is a first-person, sci-fi, survival horror game where you take control of a space delivery man who has just boarded a seemingly empty vessel. Dazed and confused you embark to find someone who can tell you what is going on and why everyone seems to be missing. You end up finding a radio. You pick it up. After wandering around for a bit you encounter your first jumpscare! This won't be your last. I crouch under some crates and continue forth to the main power room. At this point, I'm hearing noises and I'm genuinely getting a bit unsettled. I turn on the power which (you guessed it) just so happens to be a jumpscare. I then go to the control room and wander around there for a bit before noticing a note telling me what I should do. "Hollow. Follow my instructions". I kick a generator and somehow turn it on. I then find a gun (?) and I proceed to scare myself by shooting the gun which I swear is louder than the actual game's audio. I encounter my first enemy. A naked woman with knives for feet. I shoot her a few times and she disintegrates into oblivion as I see her corpse glitch and stretch out. I walk to the room in front of me and I am greeted by another woman who's pinned on the wall next to a gore display. I'm starting to sense an unsettling trend here. I wander into a few more corridors and there's another human. The camera tells me this by controlling the camera into awkward positions then suddenly snaps back to me. I continue and then I'm met with more naked monster women who proceed to gang up on me. While this is happening a cutscene happens and I'm still taking damage. I die mid cutscene and I get booted to the title screen. Then my game crashes. What the **** just happened. [My Thoughts] I will admit, I was hyped for this game when I saw it on the store but oh my god I was in for one hell of a disappointment. The game looks ugly, there is a weird blur, walking feels off, and it just feels bad. Combat is pretty fun, I think. I do understand what they were trying to do but they somehow managed to do everything wrong. I only managed to see one enemy design and those were the naked women monsters. To me, they got inspiration from Dead Space which is ok but they did something rather... strange. It seems like they were trying to be sexual but since it's a horror game it gives off a very creepy and disturbing vibe. This is in no way a compliment to the game. I am saying the designers are either closet necrophiliacs or they want us to somehow get aroused from shooting naked zombie alien women. Both of which are disturbing thoughts. It's not a good game. It had potential to be something great but it just flopped like an old pile of tripe being blasted off into space. Doesn't make sense? Exactly. P.S. Whoever you are character designer, get help… Expand
  5. rm-sdp
    Mar 27, 2018
    0
    It's suspicious that the 10/10 reviews are from the same day, anyway, this game is awful, it has so much film grain that it's hard to see whats interactive and whats part of the decoration, the puzzles are bad and frustrating, movement is uber slow, ammo is extremely scarse, if you combine that with the fact that you can barely see stuff on the ground to pick up and that the melee attackIt's suspicious that the 10/10 reviews are from the same day, anyway, this game is awful, it has so much film grain that it's hard to see whats interactive and whats part of the decoration, the puzzles are bad and frustrating, movement is uber slow, ammo is extremely scarse, if you combine that with the fact that you can barely see stuff on the ground to pick up and that the melee attack doesn't kill enemies and you can't outrun them.
    Worst part of this game: there are no refunds on the nintendo eshop.    … Expand
  6. Hertoc
    Dec 19, 2018
    1
    The game is simply not fun. The game mechanics are terrible. The good reviews are fake. I bought it on sale for two euros, and i'm still unhappy with the purchase. The unic good thing is the ambience.
  7. moshlyfe
    Jan 6, 2019
    3
    I wanted to like this game. I really did. I was intrigued by the concept, and I thought it would be worth a try for the $1.99 I paid for it on the Switch e-shop.

    This game is bogged down by errors from top to bottom. The very first problem with this game is the fact that the dialogue sounds like it was written by someone who has little to no grasp of the English language. Even worse,    I wanted to like this game. I really did. I was intrigued by the concept, and I thought it would be worth a try for the $1.99 I paid for it on the Switch e-shop.

    This game is bogged down by errors from top to bottom. The very first problem with this game is the fact that the dialogue sounds like it was written by someone who has little to no grasp of the English language. Even worse, the subtitles are riddled with spelling errors, which makes me think that the developers couldn't be bothered to revise their script before calling this a completed game.

    The movements in the game are clunky. Aside from the fact that the main character can only move at two speeds--slow and practically not moving at all--the enemies move in a way that feels inauthentic and phoned in. They make noises when they're behind you, but they never seem to attack from behind. When it comes to combat, the game makes little to no use of anything outside of a lazy FPS that has been done better by its contemporaries. The visuals are interesting enough, but they get tired once you've made your way around the ship for the 40th time looking for the next location in your mission. It seems like the devs spent more time developing realistic breasts on the female demon spawn that you spend most of your journey trying to kill than on the details that are actually important...like a map layout that isn't incredibly confusing and reductive. It all feels very hopeless--and not to the game's advantage.

    Ultimately, this game has a long way to go before it can be considered finished. The concept is half-baked, the story is just not engaging enough to keep my attention, and even the better ideas that this game presents are just not fleshed out in a way that feels fulfilling. Disappointed is an understatement, especially for a game that costs $2.    … Expand
  8. peetachip25
    Jan 30, 2019
    0
    Hollow is a game that had the potential to become a fantastic horror videogame, but it's sad graphics, poor design, and inconvenient movement was possibly the most agonizing and traumatizing playing this game for the unfortunate 6 hours that it took me. The only redeeming quality of this game, and sadly the driving method for my playtime, were the 5 images that I collected over the courseHollow is a game that had the potential to become a fantastic horror videogame, but it's sad graphics, poor design, and inconvenient movement was possibly the most agonizing and traumatizing playing this game for the unfortunate 6 hours that it took me. The only redeeming quality of this game, and sadly the driving method for my playtime, were the 5 images that I collected over the course of the game that was the result of a half-assed idea of an easter egg hunt that ended up more interesting than the actual game. These images, on the other hand, were more full-ass (in the sense of naked women) and I can say their quality was better than the entire game altogether. Thank you for putting this game on sale for the $0.99 that it cost me, I would not have thought of purchasing this otherwise. You provided a game that I could only play with my friends who would similarly only wait for the next moment I found **** left behind on an abandoned spaceship full of creepy "Toy Story 2"-esque naked women who wanted to eat me.… Expand
  9. Ransom00
    Sep 27, 2021
    0
    This game looks like way too far cheap parody on Dead Space. Here is a lack of atmosphere. Super annoying repetitive music, really! I went down to the options and set the volume music to 1 of 10. Its sounds like they made a scary melody length of 5 seconds long and then repeat it endlessly. You can go crazy by this music. The enemies are very funny, just a ridiculous sight. The shootingThis game looks like way too far cheap parody on Dead Space. Here is a lack of atmosphere. Super annoying repetitive music, really! I went down to the options and set the volume music to 1 of 10. Its sounds like they made a scary melody length of 5 seconds long and then repeat it endlessly. You can go crazy by this music. The enemies are very funny, just a ridiculous sight. The shooting was done very poorly. Your hero walking very slow. I don't like this game… Expand
  10. griefreeze
    Apr 2, 2019
    0
    In the start the game was looking good for me, the gameplay maybe too clunky, but well, is an indie.
    I started in Hard mode and seems to you need Disc for save the game, like the ink in resident Evil, not bad. The problem was that they give me 2 disc in the first area, and never seen a disc again. All the day playing without sutting down de console and the "GHOST" grab me (i was slow) and    In the start the game was looking good for me, the gameplay maybe too clunky, but well, is an indie.
    I started in Hard mode and seems to you need Disc for save the game, like the ink in resident Evil, not bad. The problem was that they give me 2 disc in the first area, and never seen a disc again. All the day playing without sutting down de console and the "GHOST" grab me (i was slow) and instakill me (is what he/she does). Then i decide to start Normal difficulty not cause it was difficult, but beacause they didnt give me any disc for saving, at leas one for each 3-4 savemachines.

    Well that was dissapointing, but ok, i wanna know the story of the game. The BIG problems comes with the Final Scene. When the "Ghost" grabs me, sometimes instakilled me, thats normal, but sometimes crashes the game and the switch forced to go back to menu, it happens like 5 times (3 times i take photo). When i was doing well and dont letting the Ghost grab me, the Script of the terminals bugged a lot of times, dont letting me to "Execute" the protocol. At the end i decided to watch the end in youtube. Well, there´s no end literally it says "Wait Hollow 2 lol".

    I buy this game for 0,75€ and i still get dissapoint... im not judging the quality of the game... the game is literally broken, and dont let me end it    … Expand
  11. Hugo_Vomit
    May 28, 2019
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The developers are disgusting freaks people like those Hate those people I don't know what developer thinked about those posters Game Should take you away from those bad things what they created in your brain and you fuxking believe that **** never download and buy the game KILL THE DEVELOPERS… Expand
  12. Hecks88
    Oct 24, 2019
    0
    So ugly and jerky that it's unplayable... Thank goodness I bought it heavily discounted. Wouldn't recommend at all. Story is stale too..
  13. Homak-derest
    Mar 22, 2022
    2
    игра скучная и не интересная игра не стоит не денег не вашего времени несмотря на цену не берите унылый клон игры Alien: Isolation.

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Metascore
36

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 10
  3. Negative: 8 out of 10
  1. Gaming Age
    Jul 9, 2018
    16
    Hollow could have the most terrifying monsters ever chasing you through its dimly-lit hallways, and it would still suck on account of the fact that said chase would take place at the slowest speed imaginable, and give you ample opportunity to be reminded of what an eyesore it is. As I said up top, credit to the game for having such a clear vision of what it wanted to be, but the gulf between idea and execution couldn’t be any wider than it is here.
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  2. FNintendo
    May 15, 2018
    40
    Hollow could have gone further and cemented itself as a good proposal in the growing horror genre within the Nintendo Switch and it gets the ambiance right, including the good use of sound effects. It does not succeed at all it could, unfortunately, as its heavy and cumbersome gameplay, losses of fluidity and several technical issues end up plaguing the experience, whose plot is also too generic and unremarkable to make this a memorable horror game.
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  3. Nintendo Insider
    Apr 9, 2018
    30
    I have to say, a game like Hollow has so much potential and it could have been one the best horror games on the Nintendo Switch had some basic aspects had been right, such as the movement and combat. But what it ends up being is a game that doesn’t have many redeeming features or qualities. It’s too slow and lethargic, the display is a little off-putting after a while and it doesn’t run well playing in Handheld mode, which is a major feature of the Switch.
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