Hollowing

Hollowing

Koishi.lab · June 17, 2025 · RPG, Psychological Horror, Horror, First-Person, Atmospheric

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About Hollowing

《Hollowing》 is a first person perspective pixel style psychological horror game that focuses on immersive experiences of narrative exploration and eerie atmosphere. You will play the role of an international student studying alone in a foreign country, attending classes on campus during the day and returning to a dim and silent apartment at night, repeating a meaningless life day after day.In this closed and lonely environment, time gradually becomes blurred, and reality and illusion begin to intersect. The shadow outside the window is getting closer and closer, and the whispers at night are becoming clearer. Is something approaching or is your mind collapsing?The main gameplay of the game is first person interactive exploration, which unlocks the character's inner world and story clues through walking, observing, and interacting with objects.The game is mainly driven by the plot, with a strong narrative progression as the main axis, advancing day by day, feeling the character's psychological state gradually collapsing, bringing you a psychologically terrifying experienceThe inspiration for the story comes from the loneliness and cultural barriers experienced by real international students. The game has no combat system and focuses on psychological stress and environmental narrative. This will be a journey about anxiety, loneliness, and the breakdown of self-awareness.What exactly are you facing? A real monster? Or is it just a projection of your inner self?flee? Or face it? This gradually distorted daily routine is waiting for you to uncover the truth.This is my first game,please enjoy.

Hollowing — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Sep 6, 2026
Hollowing is a surprisingly unsettling psychological horror game, and I liked how much of its horror comes from the feeling of being completely alone. I play as an international student living away from home, going through the same routine of attending classes and returning to a quiet apartment every day. At first everything feels ordinary, but that routine slowly starts to become disturbing as reality and illusion begin to overlap. The gameplay is mainly focused on first person exploration and interacting with objects around me. There is no combat, so I cannot simply fight whatever is waiting for me. Instead, I have to walk through the environments, observe details and look for clues that reveal more about what is happening. I liked this approach because it makes the ordinary parts of the game feel important. A simple walk back to the apartment can become uncomfortable when I start noticing that something feels different. The way the story progresses through repeated daily routines works particularly well. I slowly get a better understanding of the character's mental state while strange events become harder to ignore. The shadow outside the window and the increasingly clear whis…
Not recommended Feb 22, 2026
Got all the way to the scene where you have to jump from rock to rock and kept falling because the jump wouldn't work. Screw you. Rating: 0/10
Not recommended Jan 23, 2026
between the bugs and weird texts it's not for me dawg
Recommended Jan 17, 2026
entertaining and it got me a couple times.
Recommended Jan 12, 2026
Yes.
Recommended Jan 4, 2026
Now I fear jobs even more. What a crazy experience. Though the rain almost exploded my computer, the game is cool

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