My name is Kris Takahashi and I’m one of the developers behind Hollowed Oath, an indie MMO that is currently 87% funded on Kickstarter with 18 days to go!

...And I am brutally aware that 90% of you just recoiled and are preparing to smash me with a wall of text. But before you do, I ask that you take a moment to read the post, or visit the site, or watch one of our videos, or check us out on Steam.

I am incredible proud to be leading this team, creating this new world in the way that we are creating it, and it is my responsibility to make sure that Hollowed Oath has the best chance it can to be successful.

In my mind, our best chance at success lies in community with those of you who read this post, and in some dark, almost fully jaded part of your mind, allow yourself to get just a little excited.

I'll be around most of the day to answer your questions and respond to comments to the best of my ability.

Here we go!

About Us

Hollowed Oath is a heroic fantasy MMORPG set in the beautiful yet fractured world of Orrathis, where a mysterious force known as the Hollow distorts reality. The gods have vanished and civilization clings to survival behind wards, houses, and relics as twisted creatures, rival factions, and echoes of a forgotten past threaten what remains.

We believe you have the strength to become an Oathsworn; one of the few powerful enough to stand between the world and its undoing. 

Key Features:

• Create Unique Roles – Choose from 560 class combinations and thousands of ability combinations to become the hero you were meant to be.
• Find Epic Loot - Rarity levels, weighted stats, and inscribed runes promise that each item can be epic. What dropped it and who found it matters.
• You Are Enough – Don’t be stuck LFG. Progress on your own time the way you want.
• Explore a Living World – Discover diverse regions filled with tension, secrets, and threats.
• Dynamic Encounters - How will the Hollow affect your enemy’s strength and affixes this time?
• Uncover the Truth – What happened to the gods, why is the Hollow here, and what can you do to help?
• Be Welcomed - Join us! A strong community leads to a thriving world. Remember, it’s okay to just have fun and let others do the same. 
• Uphold Your Oath – You can vanquish enemies alone or lend your strength to others using the Journey system!

Become the Hero You Were Meant to Be

Break free from the limits of single-class gameplay and design a hero that’s entirely your own. In a world of 16 distinct combat classes, you aren’t choosing a role; you’re creating one. 

Multiclass any three classes at once across Tank, Healer, DPS, and Support archetypes to craft powerful, unexpected hybrids. Become a frontline Knight / Justicar / Runesinger who can shield allies while empowering them, or unleash chaos as an Elementalist / Illusionist / Assassin blending burst damage with control and deception. Prefer something unconventional? Try a Golemancer / Spiritualist / Beastmaster to command constructs, spirits, and creatures to support your team in nuanced ways.

Multi Class Character Creation

As you level, customize your hero further through the Oathline system. Choose from a shared pool of active abilities, passive traits, and stats drawn from your combined classes, and shape them into a kit that fits your playstyle. Blend powers, perks, and gear into a load-out that’s entirely your own.

You don’t just select your character from a list, you forge your own path. 

In addition to your classes, have the freedom to choose from an array of fantasy races, each with their own distinct looks, cultures, and captivating histories waiting for you to explore. Craft your ideal hero or heroine and shape their identity with an extensive selection of cosmetics, armor styles, weapons, mounts, and pets.

How You Play Matters

Power isn’t just in your abilities; it’s in how they connect.

Every fight is driven by a dynamic Synergy System, where your skills apply and consume powerful states like MARKED, CURSED, and INSPIRED. Set up enemies with one class, then take advantage of those effects with another for incredible results.

Mark targets as an Assassin, then strike with a Justicar’s Divine Punishment to heal yourself or your allies while decimating your enemies. Spread curses with a Gravebinder that empower allies to capitalize on the chaos. Inspire your team as a Runesinger, turning coordinated strikes into unstoppable momentum.

Synergy Ability System

Become even stronger with timing, awareness, and creativity. Chain abilities across your three chosen classes to unlock effects greater than the sum of their parts. Whether you’re playing solo, coordinating with a party, or battling in large-scale events, how you play matters.

Orrathis Needs You

The Hollow is spreading, but it’s far from the only danger lurking beneath the surface.

Step into Echoes, instanced dungeons where reality itself has fractured. These shifting spaces twist the familiar into the unknown, filled with secrets, dangers, and stories waiting to be uncovered.

Within them roam Remnants, beings reshaped by The Hollow. Each encounter reveals fragments of what was lost and what they’ve become, as these creatures are unpredictable, tragic, and deadly.

Pre-Alpha Combat Footage

Beyond the Echoes, the world is alive with conflict. Rival factions clash for power, truth, and survival. Your choices will shape the outcome. Earn or lose reputation through your actions, influencing how factions see you, what rewards they offer, and which paths open or close.

Pick your battles carefully. Every alliance has a cost, and every enemy has a story.

Explore and Discover

Your journey begins in the Kingdom of Thalora, but the world of Orrathis stretches far beyond the horizon.

Explore a vast, open world shaped by loss, mystery, and forgotten history. Thalora’s ten distinct regions, from lush wildlands to shattered ruins, each boast unique biomes, flora, fauna, resources, races, and cultures. No two regions are alike, and each holds secrets waiting to be uncovered.

Pre-Alpha Drone Footage

Every ruin tells a story. Every faction has an agenda. And every path you take reveals more of a world struggling to define its future.

Nothing here exists without meaning. Every crumbling structure, every hidden trail, every distant silhouette invites you closer, urging you to uncover what was lost… and what remains.

Join our Community

Hollowed Oath is being developed in community with its players. The developers engage directly and openly share why decisions are made while taking into consideration community feedback.

Adventures are better when they’re shared, and in Orrathis, no one walks alone for long unless they want to.

Journey and Quest System

The Journey System enables players to light a beacon for help allowing others to step in, turning strangers into allies. Whether you’re lending a hand or receiving one, every encounter is a chance to forge new connections.

Stand with in game factions or carve your own path. Build a guild from the ground up, trade what you’ve found, gathered or crafted, and take on challenges together not because you have to, but because you want to.

If you got this far, thank you!

See you in the comments!

My name is Kris Takahashi. I’m one of the developers behind Hollowed Oath, an indie MMO that is currently 81% funded on Kickstarter at the end of its first week!

From the beginning it has been a primary goal of ours to provide a linux client, and as of this posting we have a linux client running really well in pre-alpha.

I won’t pretend I’m a big linux user (boooo I know, but I’m getting there!), however, our CTO is, and suggested that if more linux users knew what we were doing and how important linux support was to us, they might love it too.

Our opinion is that linux will continue to play a larger and larger role in PC gaming as time goes on, and we’ve specifically chosen the Steam Machine as our target recommended spec platform- which means that SteamOS is a first-class platform, not an afterthought.

So, let’s get into it! What is Hollowed Oath?

About Us

Hollowed Oath is a heroic fantasy MMORPG set in the beautiful yet fractured world of Orrathis, where a mysterious force known as the Hollow distorts reality. The gods have vanished and civilization clings to survival behind wards, houses, and relics as twisted creatures, rival factions, and echoes of a forgotten past threaten what remains.

We believe you have the strength to become an Oathsworn; one of the few powerful enough to stand between the world and its undoing. 

Key Features:

• You are Enough – Don’t be stuck LFG. Progress on your own time.
• Create Unique Roles – Choose from 560 class combinations and thousands of abilities to become the hero you were meant to be.
• Find Epic Loot - Rarity levels, weighted stats, and inscribed runes promise that each item can be epic.
• Explore a Living World – Discover diverse regions filled with tension, secrets, and threats.
• Dynamic Encounters - How will the Hollow affect your enemy’s strength and affixes this time?
• Uncover the Truth – What happened to the gods, why is the Hollow here, and what can you do to help?
• Be Welcomed - Join us! A strong community leads to a thriving world. Remember, it’s okay to just have fun. 
• Uphold Your Oath – Vanquish enemies alone or lend your strength to others using the Journey system!

Become the Hero You Were Meant to Be

Break free from the limits of single-class gameplay and design a hero that’s entirely your own. In a world of 16 distinct combat classes, you aren’t choosing a role; you’re creating one. 

Multiclass any three classes at once across Tank, Healer, DPS, and Support archetypes to craft powerful, unexpected hybrids. Become a frontline Knight / Justicar / Runesinger who can shield allies while empowering them, or unleash chaos as an Elementalist / Illusionist / Assassin blending burst damage with control and deception. Prefer something unconventional? Try a Golemancer / Spiritualist / Beastmaster to command constructs, spirits, and creatures to support your team in nuanced ways.

Multi Class Character Creation

As you level, customize your hero further through the Oathline system. Choose from a shared pool of active abilities, passive traits, and stats drawn from your combined classes, and shape them into a kit that fits your playstyle. Blend powers, perks, and gear into a load-out that’s entirely your own.

You don’t just select your character from a list, you forge your own path. 

In addition to your classes, have the freedom to choose from an array of fantasy races, each with their own distinct looks, cultures, and captivating histories waiting for you to explore. Craft your ideal hero or heroine and shape their identity with an extensive selection of cosmetics, armor styles, weapons, majestic mounts, and loyal pets.

How You Play Matters

Power isn’t just in your abilities; it’s in how they connect.

Every fight is driven by a dynamic Synergy System, where your skills apply and consume powerful states like MARKED, CURSED, and INSPIRED. Set up enemies with one class, then take advantage of those effects with another for incredible results.

Mark targets as an Assassin, then strike with a Justicar’s Divine Punishment to heal yourself or your allies while decimating your enemies. Spread curses with a Gravebinder that empower allies to capitalize on the chaos. Inspire your team as a Runesinger, turning coordinated strikes into unstoppable momentum.

Synergy Ability System

Become even stronger with timing, awareness, and creativity. Chain abilities across your three chosen classes to unlock effects greater than the sum of their parts. Whether you’re playing solo, coordinating with a party, or battling in large-scale events, how you play matters.

Orrathis Needs You

The Hollow is spreading, but it’s far from the only danger lurking beneath the surface.

Step into Echoes, instanced dungeons where reality itself has fractured. These shifting spaces twist the familiar into the unknown, filled with secrets, dangers, and stories waiting to be uncovered.

Within them roam Remnants, beings reshaped by The Hollow. Each encounter reveals fragments of what was lost and what they’ve become, as these creatures are unpredictable, tragic, and deadly.

Pre-Alpha Combat Footage

Beyond the Echoes, the world is alive with conflict. Rival factions clash for power, truth, and survival. Your choices will shape the outcome. Earn or lose reputation through your actions, influencing how factions see you, what rewards they offer, and which paths open or close.

Pick your battles carefully. Every alliance has a cost, and every enemy has a story.

Explore and Discover

Your journey begins in the Kingdom of Thalora, but the world of Orrathis stretches far beyond the horizon.

Explore a vast, open world shaped by loss, mystery, and forgotten history. Thalora’s ten distinct regions, from lush wildlands to shattered ruins, each boast unique biomes, flora, fauna, resources, races, and cultures. No two regions are alike, and each holds secrets waiting to be uncovered.

Pre-Alpha Drone Footage

Every ruin tells a story. Every faction has an agenda. And every path you take reveals more of a world struggling to define its future.

Nothing here exists without meaning. Every crumbling structure, every hidden trail, every distant silhouette invites you closer, urging you to uncover what was lost… and what remains.

Join our Community

Hollowed Oath is being developed in community with its players. The developers engage directly and openly share why decisions are made while taking into consideration community feedback.

Adventures are better when they’re shared, and in Orrathis, no one walks alone for long unless they want to.

Journey and Quest System

Answer the call of the community outside the game by joining Discord or in game by using the Journey system, where players in need can light a beacon for help and others can step in, turning strangers into allies in a single moment. Whether you’re lending a hand or receiving one, every encounter is a chance to forge new connections.

Stand with in game factions or carve your own path. Build a guild from the ground up, trade what you’ve found, gathered or crafted, and take on challenges together not because you have to, but because you want to.

If you are still reading, thank you! We will be around for the rest of the day here in linux_gaming and will do our best to respond!