Drake Hollow

 Xbox One
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6.2

Mixed or average reviews- based on 26 Ratings

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  • Summary: What are drakes? Drakes are the friendly native creatures who need your help for survival. Alongside basic needs such as hunger, thirst, and shelter, drakes want to have fun and be protected from the creatures that threaten their blighted home. Build up and secure your base, createWhat are drakes? Drakes are the friendly native creatures who need your help for survival. Alongside basic needs such as hunger, thirst, and shelter, drakes want to have fun and be protected from the creatures that threaten their blighted home. Build up and secure your base, create resources, bond with the drakes, and help keep these vegetable folk entertained. There’s always something to do or someone to defend in Drake Hollow. … Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. TheXboxHub
    Sep 1, 2020
    90
    Drake Hollow on Xbox One is one of the hardest games to put down this year. It has a brilliant set of systems that keep you engrossed in the action and invested in your personal world. There are plenty of Drakes to meet, unique items and buildings to craft, and battles to be won.
  2. Eurogamer Italy
    Sep 4, 2020
    80
    An enjoyable adventure settled in a fantastic world, with creatures that call out for help, really inspired and funny.
  3. MondoXbox
    Aug 30, 2020
    80
    A charming and entertaining survival game, with some totally lovable tiny creatures and good and well balanced mechanics that will please newcomers to the genre too.
  4. Windows Central
    Sep 14, 2020
    80
    Drake Hollow's overall gameplay and presentation make it a joy to experience, though the balancing for the endgame is in need of serious work.
  5. XboxAddict
    Oct 16, 2020
    70
    Drake Hollow is an amazing game to sink a few hours into and I enjoyed nearly every minute of it. The Drakes you collect along the way, the islands you get to visit and the exploration are many of the great highlights of Drake Hollow. As you explore more islands, you get to see more areas, collect more supplies and make a grander, better camp. Who wouldn't want that in a video game? I'm excited to explore more, collect more and see what the worlds have to offer me. Gotta go, enemies are raiding my camp!
  6. GameGrin
    Oct 1, 2021
    65
    There’s a few hours to be whittled away in Drake Hollow. And can be a good blast with a friend or two, as it helps to mitigate the constant need to return to base, allowing for an explorer to do their thing, a builder to do theirs, and a battler their own. Unfortunately as a solo experience, it erred more toward frustration because of the timed mechanics.
  7. Finger Guns
    Aug 29, 2020
    60
    Odd design choices and an unsatisfying yet incredibly demanding gameplay loop mar a game that boasts the cutest plant people in video games. A crafting and survival sim with added base-building, Drake Hollow is not compelling enough to justify the demands it makes on the player or the lack of reward even when you manage to do what it asks.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 9
  3. Negative: 1 out of 9
  1. Aleks_Analitik
    Sep 27, 2020
    10
    I really liked the game. made with high quality. translation into different languages. long storyline company. survival
  2. Shoui
    Aug 31, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Is an incredible experience and tremendous RPG BRAVO, you won't regret to play this is already on game Xbox Gamepass and you can play it with friends a… Expand
  4. Tripiewifi
    Nov 18, 2020
    9
    Its like a mix of Pikmin, Don't Starve and Plants Vs Zombies. ajbdhkawgkdhwajhdlawjdklawjkldjawkjd
  5. Timgriff84
    Jul 25, 2021
    7
    Fun little survival game with cute characters. Not the deepest story and doesn’t hugely evolve but I had a lot of fun.
  6. Bl00dy_t34rs
    Aug 31, 2020
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Overall a fun base building survival game but I am glad that myself and friends got it on game pass. The game wants you to build a town to support drakes that eat and drink more than my own child. Luckily we had 4 people so we were able to have someone living at the house taking care of the little babies and building while the rest of us went out exploring. For the first area this was great. Then we apparently got too many drakes as we hit our camp budget and could no longer afford to keep them fed, not thirsty and entertained. Then the raids started. We figured out as you build more raids time lowers. It doesn't give you enough time to build a base before you get attacked and lose it all. Through all of this we still enjoyed the game and for the most part did well without losing too many drakes. Then came the last level where the final boss is broken. All it said we had to do was weaken it and bring it back to camp. We did exactly that and killed it, just for it to respawn in our camp and break everything. Maybe we didnt get the health low enough we thought. Nope because we killed it with our fists doing 1 damage at a time right next to the center of our camp and still nothing. Its a shame because we really did enjoy the game and streamed it up until this point but after an hour and a half on the final"boss" we had to give up. Please rebalance the resource need and fix the boss and make this game as worth it as it deserves to be.… Expand
  7. VaultHunter918
    Aug 31, 2020
    6
    I downloaded this game as part of gamepass. It's a fun game and the story line is interesting enough to keep you going along. I personallyI downloaded this game as part of gamepass. It's a fun game and the story line is interesting enough to keep you going along. I personally did not experience any bugs or issues while playing either. My issue with the game is the game-play loop is demanding. This is a survival/crafting sim with some base building mechanics. The crafting requirements for some items become very redundant early on. The amount of them you will need to complete certain tasks or to get to certain parts of the map are high as well. When it all starts to add up, it became more like a task than a fun game-play loop for me. I'm actually a fan of other games of this type so this was surprising to me. The demands of the player to keep up with the resources needed for all of these items is too high in my opinion, and for this game to sustain will likely have to be adjusted. I feel even those of us who truly love to grind will find it tiring after a while. I'd recommend if you're a fan of these types of game to absolutely give this game a try and not let my opinion keep you from giving a game with a nice story and interesting graphics a go. Overall the grind was too much for me but I'll leave that up to you to decide.… Expand
  8. Tyrraell
    Jan 16, 2021
    3
    I can't belive this game has so high rating. Looks like **** Fortnite couterfeit, the story is extremely dumb (like serously, from the firstI can't belive this game has so high rating. Looks like **** Fortnite couterfeit, the story is extremely dumb (like serously, from the first minute you'll Just facepalm beacuse of this) and the whole gameplay is just a copy of what you already know from every **** survival game. I Just can't decide what to write more. Cool(not So sure) for free android game,. Dont waste your time at this.… Expand

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#69 Best Xbox One Game of 2020
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#69 Most Discussed Xbox One Game of 2020