In less then a week, our game Hollow Home reached full funding on Kickstarter! So we're celebrating by giving away 2 games on Steam for up to $50 each!
Hi everyone
We’re a Ukrainian indie studio called Twigames Inc, currently working on a somber narrative-focused game about our war - Hollow Home.
We launched this project back in 2022, in the months after the invasion began, and we have continued because we believe this is a story that people should hear. And in the years since then, we are glad that there were others who believed so too.
The story behind Hollow Home
Hollow Home is a story driven narrative RPG where you play a boy named Maksym, and the story begins during the last normal of his childhood. You get to take a stroll through the neighborhood and experience ordinary life before the siege starts remaking the city into a more grim, and much more desperate place..
To survive, you need to navigate this new war-torn environment and choose who you can trust, who you want to help, and which actions are most likely to secure survival. You also can’t help everyone, and aiding one person often means denying help to others. As the siege drags on and the leaden days become darker and more grim, the city Maksym knew from birth becomes something much different. Familiar streets grow empty, whole blocks get reduced to rubble and shell craters, and the people you met earlier become colder and more afraid, and more alienated.
Through all of this, it is your one goal to hang onto kindness and humanity. Because we ultimately wanted Hollow Home to be a story about perseverance in the face of suffering, and about how hope can survive even in the darkest of days.
If this is the kind of story you want to experience, we have a demo that you can check out here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3142360/Hollow_Home_Demo/
Our Kickstarter
Hollow Home is more than just a game to us, but a passion project born out of the bleakest of circumstances that can befall anyone’s home country. However, we know it's also a relatively niche game. Most people game to have fun, and while we do aim to provide a “fun” experience - it's not exactly an easy game to relax with after work. Hollow Home is meant to make you reflect, if even a bit, on the world we live in and the circumstances that shape us as humans.
We believe our story deserves to be heard, and we want to make it even better and more polished than it already is. To this end, we launched a KS a while back, and we’re now in our final stretch for the next 5 days:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/twigames/hollow-home
Every contribution of any sort means a lot for a small studio working in the circumstances we are in. And every pledge goes toward refining this project beyond what we already have: turning our personal experiences into a truly unforgettable video game.
And our Giveaway!
The support and encouragement we got on Reddit, from all communities we engaged with, has been frankly incredible - we got fully funded in almost less than a week! So we feel it is only fair to give a little something back to the people here.
That is why we want to gift 2 lucky winners here with any Steam game they choose for up to $50 each!
To participate, just tell us below what’s your first impression of Hollow Home and if it’s something you’d try it out.
The winners will be picked at the end of the week and everyone will have an equal chance of winning - as the victors will be selected at random by the Reddit Raffler. I will also announce which games they chose as their gift!
Thank you and have a good one.
- from the team at Twigames Inc.