Silksong Is Great, but Mina the Hollower Deserves Your Hype Too

I’ll admit something embarrassing: for years, my entire online personality was just “Silksong when?” typed with increasing desperation. Now it’s 2026, and Hollow Knight: Silksong is finally out in the wild. The launch was so ridiculous that it crashed storefronts on multiple platforms because everybody tried to download it at the same time. More than 500,000 concurrent players on Steam? Three million copies sold in under a week? That’s not a game launch, that’s a digital stampede. But while Silksong soaked up every headline like a greedy little knight, another indie gem has been standing off to the side, tapping its tiny foot and waiting for attention. That game is Mina the Hollower.

Let’s be real: Yacht Club Games doesn’t need my pity. These are the folks behind Shovel Knight, the game that basically kicked down the door for the entire 2010s indie boom. Before Hollow Knight even existed, Shovel Knight was the poster child for retro-inspired indie excellence. It sold millions, got a pile of expansions, and earned a permanent spot in “best games of all time” conversations. So when Yacht Club announced Mina the Hollower, I should have lost my mind immediately. Instead, I did what a lot of people did: I nodded politely and went back to refreshing Silksong threads. I regret that now.

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