Shovel Knight Devs Mina The Hollower Launches On Halloween Demo Out Now

Today, during Summer Game Fest Live with Geoff Keighley, Yacht Club Games announced 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's a free limited-time demo available on Steam right now.

Mina The Hollower is an action-adventure game made in the style of Game Boy Color-era games like The Legend Of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons/Ages. Players control the titular Mina, a mouse who's handy with a whip, as she travels through a spooky island in an attempt to save it from a dreadful curse.

The demo was released on Steam in conjunction with the release-date announcement, and it is part of the annual Steam Next Fest celebration, which ends on June 16th. The demo contains the game's opening stage and first major boss fight, and all progress made in the demo will carry over to the main game when it launches in the fall.