“Currently under development, Hollow Knight is the first game by Team Cherry, an indie games team comprised of 3 people based in South Australia.
Hollow Knight is a challenging, beautiful action adventure game set in the vast, inter-connected underground kingdom of Hallownest. A 2D action game with an emphasis on skill and exploration, Hollow Knight has you fighting a fearsome host of deadly creatures, avoiding intricate traps and solving ancient mysteries as you make your own way through fungal wastes, forests of bone, and ruined underground cities.
The atmosphere is eerie and sometimes unnerving, but there is a good-hearted core of humour and levity in there too, especially when conversing with all of the weird and wonderful NPCs you’ll find along the way. Hollow Knight has beautiful traditional art, fluid and responsive action, challenging but fair gameplay, and an incredible, bizarre insect world begging to be explored and conquered.
Features
– A beautiful, eerie world of insects and heroes.
– Traditional 2D animation brings creatures and characters to life.
– Challenging gameplay that can be difficult but always fair.
– Fluid and responsive action allows you to flow through combat like water.
– A collection of challenging “feats” the most skilled players can strive for.
– Find powerful new abilities and spells on your adventure to grow stronger and open new paths.
– Speak with a weird, intriguing cast of characters.
– Explore a vast, connected underground world.
– Scour the world for hidden secrets – powerful artifacts, piles of riches, and surprising encounters.
– Go Dream Diving! Venture into the minds of friends and enemies and discover the strange worlds that await within.
– Head to town to seek advice, purchase new items, and chat with quirky townsfolk.
– Hidden areas full of the toughest challenges and battles, for expert players.
– Ancient mysteries hidden about the world waiting to be solved by the most observant investigators.”
Hollow Knight is a challenging, beautiful action adventure game set in the vast, inter-connected underground kingdom of Hallownest. A 2D action game with an emphasis on skill and exploration, Hollow Knight has you fighting a fearsome host of deadly creatures, avoiding intricate traps and solving ancient mysteries as you make your own way through fungal wastes, forests of bone, and ruined underground cities.
The atmosphere is eerie and sometimes unnerving, but there is a good-hearted core of humour and levity in there too, especially when conversing with all of the weird and wonderful NPCs you’ll find along the way. Hollow Knight has beautiful traditional art, fluid and responsive action, challenging but fair gameplay, and an incredible, bizarre insect world begging to be explored and conquered.
Features
– A beautiful, eerie world of insects and heroes.
– Traditional 2D animation brings creatures and characters to life.
– Challenging gameplay that can be difficult but always fair.
– Fluid and responsive action allows you to flow through combat like water.
– A collection of challenging “feats” the most skilled players can strive for.
– Find powerful new abilities and spells on your adventure to grow stronger and open new paths.
– Speak with a weird, intriguing cast of characters.
– Explore a vast, connected underground world.
– Scour the world for hidden secrets – powerful artifacts, piles of riches, and surprising encounters.
– Go Dream Diving! Venture into the minds of friends and enemies and discover the strange worlds that await within.
– Head to town to seek advice, purchase new items, and chat with quirky townsfolk.
– Hidden areas full of the toughest challenges and battles, for expert players.
– Ancient mysteries hidden about the world waiting to be solved by the most observant investigators.”
– Take your place amongst the Gods. New Characters and Quest. New Boss Fights. Available Now!
– A Kingdom Upgraded! New Boss. Upgraded Bosses. Tweaks and Refinements across the whole game.
– Light the Nightmare Lantern. Summon the Troupe. New Major Quest. New Boss Fights. New Charms. New Enemies. New Friends.
– Mighty new foes emerge! New Boss fights. New Upgrades. New Music.
Brave the Depths of a Forgotten Kingdom
Beneath the fading town of Dirtmouth sleeps an ancient, ruined kingdom. Many are drawn below the surface, searching for riches, or glory, or answers to old secrets.
Hollow Knight is a classically styled 2D action adventure across a vast interconnected world. Explore twisting caverns, ancient cities and deadly wastes; battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs; and solve ancient mysteries at the kingdom’s heart.
Hollow Knight Key Features:
1, Classic side-scrolling action, with all the modern trimmings.
2, Tightly tuned 2D controls. Dodge, dash and slash your way through even the most deadly adversaries.
3, Explore a vast interconnected world of forgotten highways, overgrown wilds and ruined cities.
4, Forge your own path! The world of Hallownest is expansive and open. Choose which paths you take, which enemies you face and find your own way forward.
5, Evolve with powerful new skills and abilities! Gain spells, strength and speed. Leap to new heights on ethereal wings. Dash forward in a blazing flash. Blast foes with fiery Soul!
6, Equip Charms! Ancient relics that offer bizarre new powers and abilities. Choose your favourites and make your journey unique!
7, An enormous cast of cute and creepy characters all brought to life with traditional 2D frame-by-frame animation.
| Minimum System Requirements | Recommended System Requirements | |
| CPU | Intel Pentium Dual Core E5200 2.5GHz / AMD Athlon 5600B Dual Core | Intel Core i5-650 3.2GHz / AMD Phenom 9850 Quad-Core |
| VRAM | 512 MB | 1 GB |
| RAM | 4 GB | 8 GB |
| OS | Win 7 32 | Win 10 64 |
| Graphics Card | nVidia GeForce 9800 GTX / AMD Radeon HD 4850 | nVidia GeForce GTX 560 / AMD Radeon HD 5850 1024MB |
| Direct X | DX 10 | DX 11 |
| SOUND CARD | DirectX Compatible | DirectX Compatible |
| HDD Space | 9 GB | 9 GB |
| Game Analysis | Fight as the titular Hollow Knight in a beautiful 2D action platformer. Explore vast ruins filled with deadly creatures and packed with secrets, uncovering a huge 2D world inspired by classic Metroidvania level design. | |
| High FPS | 200+ FPS ( GTX 1060 ) | |
| Note | 1080p, 16:9 recommended | |
| Optimization Score | 8.6 | |
| Minimum System Requirements | Recommended System Requirements | |
| CPU | Intel Core i3 | Intel Core i5 |
| RAM | 4 GB RAM | 8 GB RAM |
| OS | Mac OS 10.7 Lion | Mac OS 10.12 Sierra |
| Graphics Card | GeForce GTX 470 | GeForce GTX 570 |
| HDD Space | 9 GB available space | 9 GB available space |
| Minimum System Requirements | Recommended System Requirements | |
| CPU | Intel Core 2 Duo E5200 | Intel Core i5 |
| RAM | 4 GB RAM | 8 GB RAM |
| OS | Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (64bit) | Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (64bit) |
| Graphics Card | GeForce 9800GTX+ (1GB) | GeForce GTX 560 |
| HDD Space | 9 GB available space | 9 GB available space |
* the arts
* the gameplay
* the atmosphere
* the music
* the knight
* the characters
* the difficulty
* the amount of content and so little redundancy
* some boss are so difficult, it is insane
* without looking at the full map on internet I would have missed a complete zone
* the arts may not attract you at the beginning
Hollow knight succeeded to beat Ori in my heart. It is the best game I played these last years. It starts quit slowly but little but little I was astonished by the gameplay, the animation and how the game started to become beautiful. Before buying I thought I would not like the arts that much but the animation looked great on the trailer so I tried it. I ended up to love the art, the music, the gameplay, the atmosphere.
The first negative point is that when reaching 90% or above the game become insanely difficult for me. The second negative point is a region that is so well hidden that you can complete miss out of quite some great content.
But knowing that the cherry team kept giving awesome DLCs, and that the price was so cheap for ages compared to other games, I give it 100%.
Completely deserved.
I love this game.
Hands down one of the best metroidvania’s I’ve ever played! The art style is amazing, the atmosphere is both cute and creepy, combat is tight and responsive and story is souls-like, which is perfectly done.
I would say that this game is my perfect ‘difficulty’ for exploration in a metroidvania. There were quite a lot of times where I hit dead ends but the beautiful art always left an impression reminding me where secrets could be. There are a couple of problems with the game that culminate at the ending with a large difficulty spike into a different genre, which I can’t imagine many people have completed without cheesing with the help of some charms. I also found the final boss to be quite annoying and let down my experience in searching for the true ending. Still recommended but It may be good enough to get the normal ending and leave it at that.