Yacht Club Games delays Mina the Hollower, no new date yet

Yacht Club Games said Monday that Mina the Hollower will not arrive on October 31 as planned, postponing the release of the developer’s Kickstarter-backed action-adventure until an unspecified date. The studio said the delay is intended to allow time for final polish, tuning and platform submission, and that the game is close to finished.

“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,” the studio wrote in a development update. “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.” Yacht Club added that it will not set a new launch date until the title has been submitted to digital storefronts.

Mina the Hollower is a topdown, Zelda-style adventure that shifts away from Yacht Club’s 2D Shovel Knight platformers. The game follows Mina, an anthropomorphic mouse, as she explores the gothic Tenebrous Isle, solving puzzles and confronting hostile creatures. The studio has described the title as combining interconnected exploration with focused combat and difficulty-tuning reminiscent of action-adventure and...