Hollow

I am genuinely distraught that I have to not recommend this game, but there's no damn way this game is "finished". Yes, I am aware there's planned to be a Hollow 2 (probably even a 3rd one), but man... I'm sorry, but I was aware this game was janky, maybe had issues, but this? This game doesn't even have an excuse for being this janky, bugridden, unbalanced, and nauseating to play. I first got eyes for this game when I saw the excellently made trailer (the one that switches back and forth between playing "Mad World" and nightmare visions). Hell, I even saw gameplay footage of the game to make sure it wasn't bad. But no it is bad. I'm sure the devs put their heart into it, that the devs' previous attempts at games might've been flukes based on people being salty. Be warned: If you're going to buy AND play this game, there will be issues. - No FOV changes. Really? You won't let the FOV be changeable for "atmosphere"? Even Alien Isolation allowed it when it could break the player model...

Unfortunately I cannot recommend Hollow. I could write a lengthy review, but for your sakes here's a summary. Pros: -cool atmosphere -mixture of all known AAA titles (like Dead Space etc) -a bit of gore -umm... lots of naked breasts? Cons: -changing settings causes game to crash -lots of bugs -I have an OC'ed 1080 EVGA GTX with all new shiny parts in my pc (Prey on max settings has 80-100fps) and here at max I get 65fps and during fights it drops to 13fps. -1.5h gameplay including cutscenes (yes, I'm serious here) -walking speed is set to UBER-SLOW and 'running' is still slower than normal walking -transport in game moves slower than your UBER-SLOW walking speed -poor quality of sounds -cannot lower the sounds volume -actually, you cannot lower any volume (it says 0 but yet you hear sounds and sometimes you get assaulted by background noises and music which suddenly rises to 150% of set volume) -music is a 5sec loop (after 30min I played with no headphones, same sounds over and over...

First of all i bought it with the discount for only 2€ and i was glad i did that, because this game isn't even worth the money. *SPOILER ALERT*!!!! The Story is pretty boring, because you and your girlfriend are on a spacestation/ship with insanity problems and you try to activate every reactor only to flee with a shuttle and wait for the next game (Hollow 2). By the way you get the information from yourself that your girlfriend already died...., so fuck that. Gameplay: You have 3 weapons in this game for 4 monsters (booby monster small, booby giant, some flying idk what it is and a Ghostspaceman that can't be killed). The worst of the weapons is the melee one (wrench), because you can't hit anything. the other 2 weapons are pretty good. The bad part of the Gameplay is the Movement, because you are really slow, your sprint is like normal walking and your jumps are really bad (maybe because of the Spacesuit?). Everytime your Guy is talking (like you click on a switch to open a door,...

Nice gfx and shaders. Good technical level and atmoshpere. But all the rest is grade Beta/Unpolished unfortunately and lazy devs seem not to care. Another abandoned game with potentials.

This is a solid little Horror game that makes very good use of its sound and lighting mechanics. I am thoroughly impressed. The game does have an Indie Flavor, its very linear but the Devs really do a great job of using this to their advantage and create a very claustrophobic and creepy environment. The budget does show a little with some cringe worthy dialogue, the random collection of Girlie Pictures, and in particularly with the creature types, but the environments are very lovely. I highly recommend this game to any lover of Sci Fi/Horror. Lovers of Dead Space and Event Horizon will easily enjoy this Indie take, and since EA has Dead Space DOA at the moment (if not forever) this game is a great fix for that style of Storyline. PROS : - Sci Fi Horror Done Right - Good Visuals - The use of lighting and sound is very solid - The Use of and Overall Sound Quality Can Not Be Praised Enough - A very claustrophobic atmosphere - The use of Film Grain gives the game a movie like quality - ...

Thought this had potential.. I mean, it looks pretty nice, no? The voice-acting may be rather meh-meh but it's not like I expected any in the first place.. It also plays sort of okay. It's a survival horror thing at its core so everything is as you'd expect. Insanely clunky combat paired with extremely limited health and ammo - in fact you'll be in for a painful surprise the first time you reload your firearm and notice all the remaining ammo in your magazine will be lost when you load a new one. That's fine, might be a feature, might be that the developers were unable to keep track of remaining rounds rather than mags.. There is a melee weapon after all but I wonder why it was included in the first place. It either does no damage or is unable to connect with your enemies since I haven't even managed to get as much as an acknowledgment of getting hit out of them. Just like the stick in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Again, that's fine, it is a survival. However the big problem here - scary, ...

So this game officially went into my trash at about the 40 minutes mark. I had spent ages walking around aimlessly a couple times before, but this time was different. The game told me these giants made of boobs were pointless to fight, and to avoid them. Turns out you have to kill it to make a random wall dissapear so you can progress. I couldn't figure this one out the first try, so I ended up letting the giant made of boobs kill me. It took me back to the nearest checkpoint which was ages back. Made my way back, decided to take on the giant made of boobs out of boredom/lack of all other things to do... Killed it, progressed, jumped onto a bed and got stuck in the environment with no option other than to kill myself. It took me back to the same checkpoint that was AEONS ago by now. Forget this game, do yourself a favor and just watch a youtube playthrough.

Pretty buggy and needs some work. As of this date, 11/19/2017, Ive been able to play about 20 minutes into it and it just crashes to desktop on loading now. From what I have been able to play, the sounds are way too loud and when you encounter an enemy you get bogged down in low fps land. I like the concept and I like what Ive seen so far and I think it has a lot of promise once the issues are resolved.

A decent horror FPS with a great sci-fi spaceship atmosphere. The gameplay is not perfect, some design-issues are clearly there. However, in the in end the atmosphere makes Hollow a perfect purchase on sale or in a bundle. Check out my video review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iraAvTzbRUg

After two attempts I was unable to finish. Lightbulb head got me every time. After watching a few play-throughs I realized it is a bug, not something I did. You are supposed to be able to evade him, even hear him screeching on the floor, but in my case, he insta-spawned right on top of me no matter what I did. Attempted uninstalling and reinstalling the game, verifying integrity, everything the web could suggest. Nothing worked, however that is not the reason for this review. Game issues. 1) Settings - Resetting every load. Sound in particular. I turned the sound almost completely off, yet every time I died or restarted it almost damaged my speakers. The markers were where I left them before the save but the volume would not remain lowered. Gama settings were the same. I like my horror games dark but each load the gama returned to default. 2) The two-layered reality bit has been done by so many games. As well as the "Is it all in your head trip?" It kind of had a Pandor...