Hollow Home will launch on January 27, 2027 for PC through Steam and on Xbox platforms. Twigames and Crunchy Leaf Games have confirmed the date for the narrative survival RPG, which follows a fourteen-year-old boy left alone in a city under siege. A free demo is already available on Steam. Inspired by Disco Elysium and This War of Mine, the game builds its survival challenges around relationships and decisions, with no weapons or combat.
Players become Maksym, whose story begins twenty-four hours before the invasion, on the last ordinary day he will remember. The city is still intact, but everything has changed when he wakes the following morning. Drawing on real events from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the siege of Mariupol, the narrative focuses on the lives of civilians who remain in their city and try to make it through another day.
Maksym’s challenges involve setting priorities, making sacrifices and deciding whom to help. The people he meets can provide support, while conversations influence what happens next. Branching quests and detailed dialogue lead towards multiple endings, with choices affecting both the surrounding world and the protagonist. Survival depends on human connections and living with the consequences of decisions no teenager should have to face.
The city includes three explorable districts that change as the siege continues. Characters have their own stories, feeding into the dilemmas Maksym encounters as the days pass and the place he knew is transformed around him.
Based in Kyiv, Twigames began development in spring 2022, a few weeks after the full-scale invasion started. The team has continued working while living through the war, researching accounts from people who survived the siege. Hollow Home is the studio’s first original game, and its August 2026 Kickstarter campaign attracted 558 backers, raising 140% of its funding goal. Crunchy Leaf Games will publish the Steam version, while Twigames will self-publish on Xbox.
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