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The Ukrainian game The Hollow, inspired by Ivan Bahryany's novel “Tiger Hunters”, has been released on the Steam platform.
Main theses:
- Ukrainian developers created the game The Hollow based on the novel “Tiger Hunters.”
- The player experiences adventures in an alternate world, where he explores the Tunguska meteorite's space in search of a secret weapon.
Ukrainian developers created the game The Hollow based on “Tiger Hunters”
The game was created by developer Vitaly Chyzh and the Brenntkopf Development studio.
The Hollow is set in the late 1960s in an alternate world. Despite the official liquidation of the Gulag system, a secret camp called Zaslon exists in Siberia for the “most dangerous” political prisoners, located in the crater of the Tunguska meteorite. It is there that the Soviet Union holds scientists and prisoners disloyal to the regime.
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The player acts as a character named Morok, the son of a scientist who has been working on a secret weapon based on the fictional mineral “Tungusium.” The main task of the hero is to find out the nature of this weapon and establish who controls its use.
The game features both fictional characters from the world of “Tiger Hunters” and real historical figures. Among them are the hero of the novel, Grigory Mnohohrishny, Ivan Bahryany himself, human rights activist Mykhailo Soroka, designer Yuriy Kondratyuk, and Levko Lukyanenko.
A separate space in the game is Chornoklin – a fictional independent state divided into so-called “Zachepylivka”, virtual zones inspired by the real settlement of Zachepylivka in the Kharkiv region. In the world of The Hollow, Chornoklin, where representatives of the UNRiv environment live, opposes the White Guard, which also exists in the game's alternative reality.
The Hollow combines elements of shooter, survival, exploration, and horror. The player must confront enemy groups and mysterious entities, explore the isolated space of the camp, and gradually uncover the history of this world.
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The developer describes the game as a politicized story about Ukraine, totalitarianism, colonial violence, and the fight for freedom. At the same time, The Hollow's mechanics follow the shooters of the mid-2000s: among the references to it, Xenus, the first Far Cry, and early STALKER: Oblivion Lost collections are mentioned.