The Hole Town

The Hole Town

imayui · June 27, 2024 · Adventure, Visual Novel, Hand-drawn, Cute, Atmospheric

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About The Hole Town

A super short visual novel based on the original poem by imayui.
In Japan, it was released in 2014 as a way of telling stories and poems online.
Just like a visual novel, you read through the story.
Fancy opening BGM and simple animated illustration.
It is a short story that ends within 2 or 3 minutes, and you can enjoy a strange sense of the extraordinary.

---story---
A very short and tasteful poetic story that begins with;
Along the flat land spreading endlessly,
There are many holes of various sizes......

---feature---
・All hand-drawn animation, text, and UI design.
・Original fancy opening BGM.
・You can read it within 3 minutes.
・Press the Enter key to continue reading.
・If you press the cancel key on the title screen, reading will proceed automatically.
・Press the Shift key to mute the reading voice, allowing you to read the story for yourself.

---About review, fan art, game commentary, and live broadcastse---
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*Secondary use, sale and redistribution of any material taken from this game is prohibited.
*Unauthorized reproduction of this game in part or whole and unauthorized commercial use are prohibited.

The Hole Town — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Playable
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 Nov 23, 2025
In the hole, the whole town is contain!
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Recommended May 3, 2026
Very short visual novel (length: 2-3 minutes), with nice voice acting. It's possible to change audio language from English to Japanese, find out how in this guide I made: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3288903320
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Recommended Sep 6, 2026
S tier game recommended very much
Recommended Sep 5, 2026
ZAJEBISTA gra wciaga na wiele godzin POLECAM!!!
Recommended Apr 21, 2026
Very short and I liked it! The atmosphere and style is really nice and I hope that the creator possibly builds off of it more and makes a full game out of the concept of the poem! It would be really fun to explore other towns in the different holes and such!
Recommended Feb 11, 2026
Hi, I liked your game and it was short so I just wrote a german translation for it. Feel free to use it or not :') I didn't really know how and where to contact you and I don't have a twitter account so I decided to post it here. german translation>> Die Loch-Stadt • Auf dem sich unendlich erstreckenden Flachland, • Liegen viele Löcher in verschiedenen Größen... • Die Stadt im Loch • Die Löcher waren kein Zuhause für Leute, • Wenn ich hineinschaute... • Die Stadt im Loch • Unter dem Loch, • liegt eine ganze Stadt. • Nebeneinander aufgereihte Häuser, • Ich sehe eine Schule, eine Kirche, • und fahrende Autos, • In den Feldern sehe ich kleine Ameisen-ähnliche Schatten von Leuten arbeiten. • Egal in welches Loch ich schaue, • Jede Stadt ist unterschiedlich aber, • Alles ist in diesem Loch beinhaltet. • Das Loch ist nicht groß genug, dass es eine Person betreten kann, • Ich kann in keine Stadt hinuntersteigen, • Egal wie weit ich auf der langen, flachen Oberfläche laufe, • Alles was ich tun kann, ist durch die Löcher schauen.

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