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Getting Started

Beginner help for controls, first objectives, early routes, and core Mina the Hollower basics.

Mina the Hollower gothic pixel art scene with Mina exploring a dark handheld-style world
Getting StartedJun 9, 2026

Mina the Hollower Review: Zelda Heart, Souls Bite

Mina the Hollower is a gothic action-adventure that blends Game Boy Color-style Zelda exploration with Souls-like pressure, sharp combat, flexible difficulty modifiers, and a few early-game rough edges.

Mina exploring an 8-bit styled area in Mina the Hollower
Getting StartedJun 9, 2026

Mina the Hollower Review: Worth the Wait

Mina the Hollower is a brutally difficult 8-bit throwback with tight combat, smart exploration, excellent music, and enough modern assists to make its old-school challenge more approachable.

Mina the Hollower exploring a dark dungeon with retro Game Boy Color-style visuals
Getting StartedJun 9, 2026

Mina the Hollower Review: The First Real Shovel Knight Successor Is Here

Mina the Hollower lives up to years of anticipation with sharp dungeon design, demanding combat, clever burrowing mechanics, and a rewarding hub economy, even if its story takes a back seat after the opening.

Mina the Hollower in a gothic pixel-art adventure scene
Getting StartedJun 9, 2026

Mina the Hollower Is Incredible! - Review

Mina the Hollower blends top-down Zelda-style exploration, Castlevania-like whip combat, gothic atmosphere, Souls-inspired stakes, and a modern Game Boy Color look into a demanding but polished adventure built around burrowing, secrets, and constant surprises.

Mina the Hollower review artwork showing its retro-inspired action-adventure style
Getting StartedJun 9, 2026

Mina The Hollower Review: A Refined Throwback

Mina the Hollower blends Game Boy-era Zelda inspiration with a structure and challenge closer to Dark Souls, creating a nostalgic but modern-feeling adventure built around tense gauntlets, dense secrets, meaningful trinkets, and a surprisingly engaging world.

Mina exploring a dark pixel-art dungeon in Mina the Hollower
Getting StartedJun 9, 2026

Mina the Hollower Goes Beyond Shovel Knight - Review

Mina the Hollower looks like a Game Boy Zelda tribute at first glance, but its dense world design, brutal combat, layered secrets, and flexible difficulty options push it into something far more ambitious.

Mina exploring a dark old-school dungeon in Mina the Hollower
Getting StartedJun 3, 2026

12 Things Mina the Hollower Never Tells You

Mina the Hollower explains very little up front, so early progress depends on understanding its HUD, currencies, death rules, sidearms, weapons, movement, town services, and hidden quality-of-life options.

Mina exploring a dangerous area in Mina the Hollower
Getting StartedJun 3, 2026

Mina the Hollower Beginner Guide – 11 Things to Know Before Starting

A practical beginner guide for Mina the Hollower covering exploration, the Proto Spark, combat rhythm, healing windows, weapons, sidearms, bones, alternate routes, upgrades, and keys.

Mina the Hollower on Nintendo Switch 2 with retro gothic action RPG visuals
Getting StartedJun 3, 2026

Mina the Hollower Switch 2 Review: Is It Worth Buying?

Mina the Hollower on Nintendo Switch 2 is a polished, demanding, retro-styled action RPG that blends Zelda-like exploration, gothic Castlevania atmosphere, deep weapon variety, and modern accessibility options into a substantial adventure.

Mina the Hollower exploring a gothic pixel-art world
Getting StartedJun 3, 2026

Mina the Hollower Is Absolutely One of THOSE Games

Mina the Hollower blends classic 2D Zelda structure with Souls-like pressure, dense exploration, demanding combat, flexible difficulty options, and a huge gothic world packed with secrets, shortcuts, tools, weapons, NPCs, and quests.

Mina the Hollower gameplay scene with Mina exploring a dark dungeon
Getting StartedJun 3, 2026

Mina The Hollower - 11 Essential Tips To Know

A practical set of early Mina the Hollower tips covering generator routing, the guild map, key trinkets, bone spending, train funding, sidearm licenses, newspapers, mirrors, and other details that are easy to miss.

Mina standing near early-game paths and shops in Ossyx
Getting StartedJun 3, 2026

Mina the Hollower: 8 Things You Should Do First

A practical early-game route for Mina the Hollower covering easy Bone Stones, the second Spark, early Cures, the Hollowers Guild, useful trinkets, shop unlocks, Poppet stalls, and the first recommended dungeon path.