Mina the Hollower delayed past initial Halloween release date

Back in 2022, the team at Yacht Club Games officially announced Mina The Hollower, their first new IP since the highly successful Shovel Knight. After years of excitement and waiting, the game was confirmed to be launching this Halloween. Unfortunately, fans will now have to wait a little bit longer, as Mina the Hollower has officially been delayed.

Making the announcement on their blog, the team at Yacht Club Games wrote: “This week, our team made a tough decision: we decided to delay Mina the Hollower. The entire crew has been working tirelessly day and night to finish development for release on Oct 31st, but we’re just not quite there yet.  This isn’t a major delay, it’s just a stretch of time to apply some final polish and balancing to make the game truly shine.”

Though no new release date was provided, the studio did offer insight into the game’s current development status, revealing “what the crew is working on,” namely:

• Finalizing design, art, and sound
• Overall game balancing
• Implementing localization
• Testing on all platforms

For the uninitiated, Mina the Hollower is a Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening inspired Game Boy Colour-styled action-adventure title which offers just as much fun and charm as Nintendo’s early efforts – while of course including some more modern quality-of-life design decisions.

While we will unfortunately have to wait a little bit longer for its full release, a demo for the game was made available back in June, with progress said to be carrying forward. Hopefully Mina the Hollower manages at the very least to arrive some time before the tail-end of this year.

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