Mina the Hollower
by Yacht Club Games · 28 May, 2026
72 downloads
About the Game

Descend into a frightful world of action-adventure in Mina the Hollower. Take control of Mina, a renowned Hollower hurtled into a desperate mission to rescue a cursed island. Burrow beneath hazards and monsters, whip foes into oblivion, and gear up with an arsenal of sidearms and trinkets.
Explore a vast world filled with pixel-perfect graphics, masterful gameplay, beastly bosses, and infectious music. Encounter a cast of bizarre characters, search out secrets in an array of exotic locales, and illuminate the omnipresent darkness in Mina the Hollower, a brand new game from the developers who brought you Shovel Knight!
Features
Hauntingly authentic 8-bit visuals in the style of Game Boy Color, refined for the modern era.
Modern touches abound: detailed animation, widescreen visuals, and rock-solid controls!
Leap, dodge, and burrow through the ground to battle monsters or navigate the world.
Lash at foes with your trusty whip, Nightstar- or choose from an arsenal of weapons, each with a totally different move set.
Discover and utilize a reliquary's worth of unusual Sidearms to gain the advantage in combat.
Collect and equip Trinkets to acquire a variety of exotic effects. Level Mina up to suit your unique playstyle.
Electrifying soundtrack by chiptune virtuoso, Jake Kaufman.
Descend into the depths of madness with a bone-chilling, yet heartwarming tale inspired by Victorian Gothic horror.
Explore a huge, dark world brimming with secrets, challenging battles, and interconnected level design.
Screenshots
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
Fix: Crash on The Congealed using Spark Catcher
Fix: Mist shift health recovery boss adjustments
Fix: Willis / Carving man attack damage adjustments
Fix: Vaamir would sometimes throw his bones in an unreachable position in Kindlewood
Fix: Lightning grip deactivates when unequipped
Fix: Could clip a half tile into the wall when exiting the burrow walls in Kindlewood
Fix: Spark catcher works with multi-piece enemies
Fix: Could hit a switch through the wall with the wiggle whip in Astral
Fix: Adjusted fishing wall ejection to favor placing you near the enemy you grappled to
Fix: Not visible after level up
Fix: Cheats that ban items don’t appear in shops
Fix: Magic sign adjustments
Fix: Passerby that talks about the train doesn’t appear if you’ve donated to it.
Fix: Duke stuck trying to run out of Duchess room
Fix: Meteor doesn’t occur if exiting on same frame
Fix: Mirror mode also flips audio panning
Fix: Added some fishing blockers in Astral and Bone Beach
Fix: Improved health bar when using Mist Shift + Joule Syringe + Vascular Syrup
Fix: New game plus modifier is now locked behind beating the first new game plus.
Fix: Modifier seed not saving
Fix: Thief and thorne can’t spawn together
Fix: Spikes considered same height as bridge
Fix: Hold to trigger modifiers a little harder to activate
Fix: Large bone hud used if leveling slower modifiers are on
Fix: Scarecrow key wouldn’t be there if you left without collecting it and returned
Fix: Skipping bosses with Recall Disc
Fix: Lady Susan shop portrait now appears
Fix: Clear NGP modifier if you advance ngp
Fix: Ultima doesn’t pull you in mirror
Fix: Hitting spark cage no longer resets combo
Fix: Keyboard prompt on HUD not paletting with the rest of the HUD
Fix: Was possible to die with Infinite Health modifier active in some scenarios
Fix: OOB when respawning via proto spark after getting crushed against the bottom of the screen in the final auto scroller
Fix: Improve Wayland support
Fix: A substantial memory leak affecting some systems
Fix: Crashes when switching between windowed and fullscreen modes
Fix: Hide window border is respected when the game is relaunched.
Fix: Rare issue where brain boss could fall into a pit and die
Fix: If you died to the 3rd phase of The Congealed, then fell into a pit during the death sequence and revived via Proto Spark, a second copy of the boss’s phase 1 form could respawn and fight alongside phase 3
Fix: House hitbox fixes
Fix: 3 tile burrow jump
Fix: Lightning damage during jump down
Fix: Dinner NPC can’t turn facing
Fix: Hitting Deluxy
Fix: Bouncing on plant from wall burrow
Fix: Spark from defeated enemy not doubly sent during level up
Fix: Stick disabled issues
Fix: Godredd is no longer a nudist in German and Japanese
Fix: Level up amounts fixed up if messed with modifiers
Fix: Level up amount correct for first level in NG+
Fix: Dodging pendulum feat damage not resetting counter
Fix: Dagger upgrade discarding jump input with Weapon Ability Input toggled
Fix: Warp can’t be used during race
Fix: Lady Susan would repeat her line about having a discount on the next purchase if you talked to her immediately after using the discount
Fix: Could walk through Lionel
Fix: Could get feats hitting Lionel
Fix: Could get stuck if hit while charging your burrow attack under glass as Beast Mina
Fix: Could not burrow out of Hustle Bustle + Tumbling Tutu
Fix: Ring Master would say the wrong target score if you talked to him after leaving & reentering the room
Fix: Jump hang time inconsistency at certain frame rates and game speeds
Fix: Beastium Convergence effect would trigger with only 5 beastiums if you only had 5 trinket slots available
Fix: Beastium crash petting Mite
Fix: Cracked ice respawns on Proto Spark death
Fix: Room transition while input disabled for Maxi
Fix: Stuck talking to Rhene with underlabs closed modifier on
Fix: Could grab hanging hook just as it was about to close
Fix: Could get stuck on death flash when dying around the same time as killing Grand Hand
Fix: Thorne spitting you out into room transition
Fix: Shield sometimes hit enemies every frame if you attacked while blocking
Fix: Dugin OOB
Fix: Could get caught on ladder during train delivery cutscene
Fix: Plasma jug trinket effect would render in front of boss names
Fix: Fall buster shot could occur with zero ammo
Fix: Ticket machine gives out item if donated already
Fix: Fishing bobber doesn’t jump skipping layers
Fix: Collection menu navigation
Fix: Removed tile of floor from water in Backwaters
Fix: Long nose collision issues
Fix: Corrupted weather effects on Intel Iris Xe graphics
Adjust library linking for increased compatibility
Fix: A few issues where you could get stuck in a wall after using a bounce plant and queueing an attack
Fix: Could get stuck ejecting from a wall if you landed from a fishing rod jump onto a speed bump
Fix: Weapon trio modifier would also give you the first upgrade on the first weapon you picked
Fix: Beast Mina uppercut could clip through carryable objects like bouncy calciums
Fix: Palette issue when using proto spark near bayou entrance
Fix: Entities & anim tiles would not spawn until the end of the proto spark sequence
Fix: Could softlock by getting the Coltrane train to leave, then jump off a ledge and respawn inside the train
Fix: Godredd is no longer a nudist
Fix: Dead summoners could fire their projectile if the player was in range immediately on screen transition
Fix: Crash when talking to Gourdan while in the middle of picking up his bonestone
Fix: Could break Sandfalls TNT with hammer upgrade and a few other unintended methods
Fix: Pinky could cancel your death by grabbing you
Fix: More localization fixes
Fix: Madd House right leg was missing a hitbox
Fix: Mina ear cut inconsistencies
Fix: Could get stuck when catching an object the same frame as beginning a room transition
Fix: Pinky throwing Mina in wall
Fix: Invisible key sign in Ossex
Fix: Bat not charging sometimes
Fix: Gator out of bounds
Fix: Tomato farmer and Abbot displayed the wrong anim during screen transitions
Fix: Spark is stuck inside a burrow wall ejection
Fix: Shrank box used for spark collision ejection so it would no longer eject when just barely inside collision
Fix: Spark would snap position when entering a room via a burrow wall warp
Fix: Spark no longer tries to do a collision eject if overlapping a chest, snowball, or other breakable/movable object
Fix: Weapon brother boss rock attack fixed
Fix: Portrait contents would spawn in a wall if you killed the portrait and then left/returned
Fix: OOB Issue
Fix: Kraken/Final boss process feats properly
Fix: Reduced vertical requirement for Sniper Dagger feat
Fix: Bellow bustles can no longer chain burrow (broken in 1.05)
Fix: Lunging cut won’t result in losing gravity
Fix: Can’t pickup items while being crushed (resulting in losing spark)
Fix: Crash when room transitioning on the same frame you attach to a hanging hook
Fix: Could get stuck in the Orrery Warden arena room if you already killed it before entering
Fix: Could jump off boss train
Fix: Can’t walk through spark doors on respawn
Fix: Exiting during dodging pendulum effect palette issue
Fix: Ossex gate made brighter
Fix: Localization adjustments
Fix: Race still gives reward if hit during dialogue
Fix: Softlock when falling into a pit the exact frame the proto spark effect begins
Fix: Screen transitioning would be disabled when getting hit out of certain shield states
Fix: In the sewers, could lose your spark to the red goopers who emerge from crates, making them uncollectable after the gooper despawns. Those goopers can no longer absorb your spark.
Fix: Lena would count Recall Disc warp distance as jump distance
Fix: Ice block enemies would not return your spark if you dropped them into a pit
Fix: Boning up no longer returns sparks from spark doors, that way you can’t get locked out of the Deprived Path
Fix: Beast fireball stuck on npc
Fix: Provisioner can’t grab you during intro
Fix: More backer names in the game
Fix: Armor/Note/Ticket spawn if broken chest
Fix: Bounce plant can’t dislocate bounce plant on path
Fix: Infinite huntsman issue
Fix: Input should function properly when multiple controllers are connected
Fix: Out of bounds in Southern Outskirts
Fix: Duke easier to talk to over spikes
Fix: Weapon Boss caps blocks that can fall
Fix: Typos in dialogue
Fix: Correct Joules display for Large Joule Jar
Fix: Sidearm saver/keeper works correctly with Raft
Fix: Peak volume now 90%
Fix: Cannot move during dialogue when scaring NPCs
Fix: The Congealed not proceeding to next phase / clone sticks around
Fix: Stuck on metal under block in bone beach
Fix: Joule syringe / Mist shift adjustment
Fix: Negative keys for Freeton dialogue
Fix: Bellow bustle not allowing burrowing after triggering it during a fall
Fix: Luxy can stop following you after falling in pit
Fix: Spark cage flying to player behavior broken if you kill it while jumping
Fix: Stutter caused by Steam cloud saves
Fix: Fishing areas blocked properly
Fix: Abducted clone hanging around
Fix: Bone beach tile art changes
Fix: Minigame achievement triggering
Fix: Can no longer talk to frog while pickup is being thrown
Fix: Credits update
Fix: Crash when going back to the Astral Orrery auto scroller without entering a checkpoint
Fix: The Congealed’s 3rd phase transition could cancel player death
Fix: Occasional crash when taking a snowball back and forth multiple times in the screen transition in Frozen Path
Fix: Butler not spawning properly
Fix: Lionel floor not spawning properly
Fix: Softlock with boat. Now respawns.
Fix: Dummy cache crash with some enemies
Fix: Ladder could get stuck in the train door if you threw it just before it departed
Fix: The Congealed did not work correctly with certain boss achievements depending on which of the 2 clones you killed first
Fix: Could get stuck in Astral Orrery if you killed a Spark Cage in an area that was inaccessible. Spark Cage now flies to player on kill.
Fix: Scarecrow enemy who drops a Kear in Septemburg had incorrect spawning/culling behavior when revisiting the room if you didn’t kill it the first time around. Could spawn multiple copies or despawn entirely.
Fix: Bubble Ring trinket invulnerability a bit more generous
Fix: New game plus modifier no longer clears save.
Fix: Train/Astral softlocks move you to a proper location when starting save
Fix: Spark could get stuck if it spawned inside a bush and attempted to eject from collision
Fix: Could get stuck under a fence when attempting to backtrack through the balcony section in Radiant Manor
Fix: Mina could get stuck in the grab state if an enemy grab broke her shield
Fix: Closed Underlab modifier workaround
Fix: Bounce plant gravity on screen transition issue
Fix: Battery buster ammo issue
Fix: Backer name visibility on cheat
Fix: Can’t grab things on ladder/rope
Fix: Buster can swap when aiming
Fix: Bayou shop skull flashing
Fix: tileset fixes
Fix: Crash on launch on macOS 12/13
Fix: IME Disabled
[Windows/Mac/Linux] Fix: Multiple controller support fix
Fix: Input should function properly when multiple controllers are connected
Fix: Clacker damage too high
Fix: Crash in Ossex intro
Fix: Bounce/Lightning repeat hits on tower
Fix: Crash with Nice frog throwing pickup
Fix: Fishing areas blocked properly
Fix: Player clipping collision issues
Fix: Duplicate flies no longer appear on train
Fix: Attack+Jump Dagger option works properly
Fix: Can’t respawn on glass in astral from proto spark
Fix: Ladder can’t softlock you outside Pinky’s
Fix: Can’t get stuck loading save with train missing
Fix: Diagonal whip after big hits
Fix: Portal state interruption issues
Fix: Panino better at handing out items in NG+
Fix: Floating after death when catching item
Fix: Spikes not triggering death
Fix: Wiggle whip no longer breaks secret dirt
Fix: Localization fixes
Fix: Out of bounds in the music hall when using certain tavern theme modifiers
Fix: Cycling pixel scaling is limited to prevent Steamdeck crashes
Fix: Velocity not reset when grabbed out of the drill driver
Fix: Manual modifiers section wasn’t taking into account the swap confirm/cancel option
Fix: All combo cheats would disable feats (even ones that made the game harder)
Fix: Dying with proto spark would cause sparks in spark doors to return to you immediately
Fix: Some controllers were causing the game to be unable to start up.
Fix: Softlock if you somehow clipped into the wrecker room without unlocking the door
Fix: Thief could softlock if you defeated him in 1 hit right after he bumped into you before the dialogue began
Fix: Thief had a bugged behavior if you avoided being hit by him for 1 second, then hit him before he could steal from you
Fix: Rhene could softlock if you attempt to go through a door and them immediately re-collect her during the dialogue
Fix: Backer code fix
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MinaTheHollower.exe to play
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