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HollowtideAn open-world action RPG

Pixel-art heroes in a small, lamp-lit 3D world, playing in a browser tab. Walk out of Fernwatch into the green vales, clear the camps along the roads, cross into the red canyons, and step through the rune circles to the bosses waiting below. Alone, or with up to three friends.

  • Real-time fights: dash, jump, combo
  • Co-op for up to four
  • Keyboard, gamepad or phone
  • Nothing to install
Play Hollowtide How it plays

Play Hollowtide

About 7 MB before the title screen, up to 43 MB as the world loads around you.

Best with a keyboard and mouse, or a gamepad. On a phone it plays sideways with touch controls: open it in its own tab, or add it to your home screen.

Open in its own tab ↗
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WASD move · mouse aim · click attack · 1–4 Q E F skills · R ultimate · Shift dash · Space jump · Tab swap hero · T talk · M map
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Gamepad: left stick move · right stick aim · skills on the face buttons and shoulders · Xbox and PlayStation pads

Recorded

Straight from the running game.

Every frame here was captured from the same build that loads above. Nothing painted over, nothing rendered offline.

The Duskblade, in a red scarf, faces the Briar King inside his violet attack ring at the Briar Throne, a circle of standing stones in the woods.
The Duskblade, in a red scarf, faces the Briar King inside his violet attack ring at the Briar Throne, a circle of standing stones in the woods.
At night by the Bristleback wallow, the Relic-warden fights a herd of Bristleback boars with a rune circle, a beam of ice and a burst of roots.
At night by the Bristleback wallow, the Relic-warden fights a herd of Bristleback boars with a rune circle, a beam of ice and a burst of roots.
The Relic-warden steps up to the blue pool of the Sunken Shrine among ruined stone arches, while Brother Tamsin waits nearby in the late afternoon light.
The Relic-warden steps up to the blue pool of the Sunken Shrine among ruined stone arches, while Brother Tamsin waits nearby in the late afternoon light.
During the Dust Raid at Redwater Post, the Relic-warden fires a beam of ice into a pack of Rustshell scorpions beside the post's adobe walls.
During the Dust Raid at Redwater Post, the Relic-warden fires a beam of ice into a pack of Rustshell scorpions beside the post's adobe walls.
The Harpooner stands toe to toe with the Sunderstone Colossus on the Sunder Floor, a sandy arena ringed by red rock pillars.
The Harpooner stands toe to toe with the Sunderstone Colossus on the Sunder Floor, a sandy arena ringed by red rock pillars.
Mother Sennet, the Dust Prophet, rises in her red-walled hollow at the bottom of Pell's Deep Seam, wrapped in gold rags and holding a crystal staff.
Mother Sennet, the Dust Prophet, rises in her red-walled hollow at the bottom of Pell's Deep Seam, wrapped in gold rags and holding a crystal staff.
Saint Orrin, the Drowned Prior, a hooded figure in moss-green robes carrying a lantern, appears at Orrin's Font in the Drowned Undercroft, the dungeon entered from the Sunken Shrine.
Saint Orrin, the Drowned Prior, a hooded figure in moss-green robes carrying a lantern, appears at Orrin's Font in the Drowned Undercroft, the dungeon entered from the Sunken Shrine.

How it plays

Quick fights, in a world that keeps moving.

  1. 01

    Head out

    Leave Fernwatch on foot. Every road has camps, roaming packs, wrecks and shrines to find, and the people in town have work for you. The day turns to night and the weather changes while you walk.

  2. 02

    Fight in real time

    Enemies mark the ground before they strike. Dash through the red, jump the ring at your feet, and strike back: quick skills leave a mark on the enemy, and the right relic sets it off.

  3. 03

    Swap heroes

    Solo you carry all three and switch with Tab in the middle of a fight. Levels earn points for new versions of each skill.

  4. 04

    Bring friends

    Host a party and send the link: up to four heroes share one world, its sky and its bosses. Voice chat is built in and heard from where each hero stands, with a switch to talk across the map.

The heroes

Three heroes, one world.

  • Spells · Staff and relics

    Relic-warden

    Ember bolts and a tide splash to mark the enemy, then relics to set the marks off: a dragon brazier, a storm gyroscope, a lance of rime.

  • Reach · Harpoon

    Harpooner

    A long thrust, a hook that drags enemies in, an anchor dropped where they stand, and a gaff pull for the one that got away.

  • Speed · Twin daggers

    Duskblade

    Dashing cuts, a fan of frost knives, a mark of black ice, and Hundred Cuts, a blur through six enemies.

Also playable

My other game.

Made by me

I made every part of it.

I wrote the code, composed the music, directed the art, and designed the world and the combat. It runs on three.js and TypeScript, streams its world in as you walk, keeps a party in step through a relay at the edge, and plays the same with a keyboard, a gamepad or a phone held sideways.

  • three.js
  • WebGL2
  • TypeScript
  • Vite
  • Web Audio
  • WebRTC voice
  • Cloudflare Workers
  • Gamepad API

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