Drake Hollow
A survival adventure defending vegetable folk from monsters.
Drake Hollow is a survival adventure game from 2020, created by The Molasses Flood and released on Xbox One by Curve Digital. The story follows young people who are pulled into a strange dimension called The Hollow, where they meet the Drakes—vegetable-like creatures that walk and talk. Players explore different maps, gather supplies, and build defenses to protect the Drakes from waves of attacking monsters. They also craft weapons and traps to fight back. The game earned mostly positive reviews. A Windows version came out on October 1, 2020. After CD Projekt bought The Molasses Flood, it took over publishing rights. This was the last game the studio released before shutting down.
Quick Facts
- Developer
- The Molasses Flood
- Publisher
- Curve Digital
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 4
- Platforms
- Xbox One, Windows
- Released
- Xbox One, August 29, 2020, Windows, October 1, 2020
- Genre
- Survival
- Modes
- Single-player, multiplayer
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Did You Know?
- Drake Hollow was originally meant to be a sequel to The Molasses Flood's previous game The Flame in the Flood, but was turned into a standalone product during initial development due to many additions and changes.
- The Xbox One version of Drake Hollow was simultaneously added to Xbox Game Pass on its release date, August 28, 2020.
- Drake Hollow was originally scheduled for release in July 2020, but was announced as being delayed indefinitely a few days before its confirmed release date.
- The game's Drakes are described as a race of anthropomorphic vegetable folk, and critics praised their visual design for resembling actual vegetables.
Reception
The Xbox One version of Drake Hollow received generally favorable reviews according to review aggregator website Metacritic. Fellow review aggregator OpenCritic assessed that the game received fair approval, being recommended by 36% of critics. Brendan Lowry from Windows Central gave the Xbox version of Drake Hollow a positive review and found it to be an overall enjoyable experience, even though he was frustrated by its endgame content. Nicholas Mercurio from Eurogamer Italy assessed Drake Hollow to be a simple survival game title that offers little in terms of innovation, but manages to competently present a number of unique elements as part of its gameplay experience. He was impressed with the game's art direction and visual design for the Drake creatures, in particular their resemblance to actual vegetables. In their review of the PC version of Drake Hollow, CD-Action criticized the game's 'weak story, repetitive gameplay, and unvaried combat', but drew a favorable comparison to the early access title Ooblets and recommended it as a competent co-operative survival game for casual players.
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