Mina the Hollower

The core trick is the burrow. Mina can dive underground at almost any moment, slipping under projectiles, enemies and traps, then pop back up behind a foe for a counterattack. Combined with a leap and a dodge, it turns every room into a movement puzzle as much as a fight, and good players spend as much time below the surface as above it.

Nightstar, the default whip, gives you reach and rhythm, but it is only the starting point. Yacht Club lets you swap to other weapons, each with a completely different move set, so a run built around a fast weapon plays nothing like one built around a slow, heavy hitter. Sidearms add secondary tools for crowd control or ranged chip damage, and Trinkets layer passive effects on top.

Mina also levels up, and you choose how to spend that growth, which gives the game a light RPG spine. The world is large, dark and interconnected, with shortcuts looping back on themselves, secrets tucked behind walls and bosses that test whether you have learned their patterns.

It is a single-player game with full controller support, keyboard-only play and 50 achievements. Its tiny footprint means it runs on almost anything, including Steam Deck and phones through Remote Play.

Mina is a Hollower, and a celebrated one, which is why she is the person called when an island falls under a curse. She arrives to find a land smothered in darkness, populated by bizarre characters and beastly monsters, and sets out to light it up again.

Yacht Club describes the tale as bone-chilling yet heartwarming, and it draws on Victorian Gothic horror for its mood: skull-strewn gloom, monstrous bosses and a creeping sense of madness the deeper you go. The Gothic setting is a sharp turn from Shovel Knight's bright fairy-tale kingdom, but the studio's sense of humour and oddball supporting cast carry over.

The story unfolds as you explore, with exotic locales and side characters revealing more about the curse and the island's history. Expect the art and Jake Kaufman's music to do much of the storytelling work alongside the dialogue.

Mina the Hollower is out now on Windows, macOS and Linux through Steam, and it supports Steam Deck. List price is US$19.99, with regional list prices of RM46.99 in Malaysia, S$20.75 in Singapore, ₱599 in the Philippines, ฿369 in Thailand, Rp 174,999 in Indonesia and 220,000₫ in Vietnam; it was 20% off on November 1, 2026. Thirteen languages are supported, including Japanese, Korean and both Chinese scripts, but no Southeast Asian ones. Requirements are tiny: 4 GB of RAM, Intel HD 5000-class graphics and 860 MB of storage. Full controller support is included.