"The only thing that I can truly be sure of is the constant, pervading feeling I have deep inside. I'm empty. I'm hollow."
This is some of the deep philosophy which you'll find in Forever Entertainment's Hollow, which landed on the Switch eShop way back in February. While on the face of it, this scary first-person action game brought to mind Dead Space and Resident Evil, it's very much got a personality of its own.
We didn't exactly get on well with it in our review, but we did acknowledge that those with a masochistic streak might derive some pleasure from its abrasiveness and its downbeat tone.
If you consider yourself to be one of those people, or if you were in any way curious to see if the game is any good for yourself, you can pick it up now in North America for only $1.99. That's a massive 90% discount.
Will you be checking it out at this low price, or did our review put you off? Share your thoughts with a comment below.
Comments 41
Tons of bad games get 90% discounts. Not sure why this one is being singled out. I'd rather pay full price for an excellent game than 10% for a terrible one.
Is this because it is coming out on the Japanese eShop at last? Even with the awful reviews?
On a different point, where is the European Downloads/Discounts for this week?
I picked it up and, well what can I say, it's worth £1.79!
I don’t think every game reduced by a huge margin is the worst. I got Bulb Boy for $1.50 the other day and that was better than I expected
I got it from a previous sale and was trying to beat the game, but it got too annoying for mii personally so I just deleted it and went about my day.
Slow news day then when you make an article advertising a 3/10 game by your own review just because the price of low.
There have been quite a few major percentage drops recently so weird that Hollow has been picked out.
it was 90% off in Europe for weeks if it still isn't.
Rather Pay $2 more and get a Valky4 Story DLC
And I was just about to ask if this game was decent. Lol thanks community. A couple bucks saved
I got this for £8 start of year, gutting, it had so much promise. This was let down by bad controls, narrative, game breakers/bugs/glitches and sound... I never finished it ... Shame
Pro tip: Spend your money on literally anything else and it'll make you a happier person, this game is beyond bad.
Edit: Typo
If you are getting disillusioned with what 8/10 means, buy Hollow and reset your quality meter. £1.79 is a small price to pay to realign your positivity.
Still aint worth it. A bad game is a bad game.
I don't spend money on garbage, no matter how attractively priced that garbage might be.
I picked this up a while back and it’s truly awful. Avoid it like space plague!
@ReaderRagfish I’ll take the coffee, thank you
Or for 5 bucks you can get Phantaruk, which has similar but better gameplay.
It could be free and I still wouldn't download it. Doesn't matter how you price it, a bad game isn't worth playing.
I wish they’d fix some of the issues. I still haven’t gotten far into the game and have already run into some things that I wish would receive some tlc
@ReaderRagfish I wish a cup of coffee only cost 2 bucks around here!
I find the game very entertaining and it definitely worths more than the reduced price.
Save the money and get Hollow Knight instead. Thank me later.
I bought it a couple of months ago when it was on a deep discount but I haven't played it yet.
Life's to short to play bad games, no matter their price.
I'd rather put that $1.99 toward almost any other game on my backlog honestly. I'm not starved for choice...
I made the mistake of picking this up for $2 or something like that. I’ve come here to testify and save others from the same fate.
Survival space horror. Looks a little bit like Dead Space. Can’t be that bad, right?
This is a bad game. An awful game. Everything about it is bad.
Do not buy this game. It’s not even worth a quarter.
I used my coins a few months ago for same deal. It was worth it since I did play like 2 hours. It wasn’t that bad, but I never finished it either. Worth the $2 but I wouldn’t have bought it otherwise.
@SyntheticPerson burn. 🔥
Not one person says why it’s bad. Just it’s bad. One detail would help.
@Sac_instead
While reviews aren’t everything, it takes a special pile of trash to average a 36/100 based on 10 reviews.
You can read about all of the details here. I actually thought some of them were being generous.
https://www.metacritic.com/game/switch/hollow/critic-reviews
There is a simple patch that could greatly improve the game(It still would be subpar). Increase movement speed.
I was initially excited for this game but it isn’t good based on reviews. They announced a part 2 is in development. Hope it is a better game.
@Whalehome Bulb boy is really good.
I bought it in the sale in the uk. Big mistake, if you’re on the fence about this game then honestly buy something else. Go and buy bubsy 3D...that game is better than this pile of trash.
I bought it during a previous sale. I'm so curious about frame rate on Switch games, if they're cheap enough I'll get them to judge for myself. This one is choppy, but playable. Definitely not a great game, but if you like horror/survival/suspense type games it may be worth it.
This isn't the first time Hollow's been discounted at 90% off on the NA eshop. I believe this is the 2nd (possibly 3rd) time it's been 90% off. So yeah, it is odd that there's an article about this.
This game is so bad that pirates don't even want it for free.
This is a massively misleading headline. A garbage game at any price isn't "crazy cheap", it's predictably crap. I don't get excited over the seven-cent games on steam sales. Why? Because that's all they're worth.
Even if i get it for free i would still not play this piece of garbage lol
I'm really disappointed in NL right now. Nowhere on this article do they use the word sponsored (which this is). As well, that they're taking money to promote a game that their own journalists call awful.
This is the type of stuff that keeps me from sharing materials.
Damn a 3 as a score and this gets attention, meanwhile Wandersong... oh silly me they did not pay you guys.
Show Comments
Leave A Comment
Hold on there, you need to login to post a comment...