At the moment, throughout Summer season Recreation Fest Dwell with Geoff Keighley, Yacht Membership Video games introduced that Mina The Hollower, its first new in-house IP since introducing Shovel Knight to the world in 2019, will launch on Halloween–and there is a free limited-time demo accessible on Steam proper now.
Mina The Hollower is an action-adventure sport made within the type of Recreation Boy Shade-era video games like The Legend Of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons/Ages. Gamers management the titular Mina, a mouse who’s useful with a whip, as she travels via a spooky island in an try to put it aside from a dreadful curse.
The demo was launched on Steam together with the release-date announcement, and it’s a part of the annual Steam Subsequent Fest celebration, which ends on June sixteenth. The demo comprises the sport’s opening stage and first main boss struggle, and all progress made within the demo will carry over to the primary sport when it launches within the fall.
Mina was first introduced in February 2022 as a part of a Yacht Membership Presents livestream presentation. Yacht Membership’s final replace on the sport was throughout final 12 months’s Yacht Membership Presents, the place Yacht Membership’s Alec Faulkner walked via among the sport’s prime options.
Yacht Membership Video games has been busy outdoors of Mina The Hollower, nonetheless, because the studio has launched a number of updates for roguelike Shovel Knight Dig and puzzler Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon. One other Shovel Knight undertaking, the upgraded Shovel Of Hope DX, was introduced throughout a Nintendo Indie World final 12 months as nicely.
Mina The Hollower launches October 31, however PC is the one platform confirmed as of this writing.