First-person horror · In development
It is dark in here. Bring a light.
She chased a dropped ring down a service stair, fell, and woke on a bed in a ward she has never seen. Now she just wants out.
Read the room, or stay in it.
- 01
Puzzles in plain sight
A key taped under a flashlight. A handover note. A fuse panel. Every answer is somewhere you can see.
- 02
No health bar
Getting hurt darkens the edges of your view and slows you down. The only readout is a heartbeat line in the inventory.
- 03
The whole ward remembers
Autosaves at milestones restore every door, drawer and puzzle exactly as you left it.
- 04
Keyboard and controller
Both work at all times, and prompts switch to match whichever you touched last.
Inside the ward
Floor two, east corridor 
The patient room 
The treatment room 
Inventory 
The records cage
Devlog
Nov 1, 2026Hollow Ward
Teaching the player to hide
Floor one has to teach surviving a threat without a fight. A walker that never attacks, a locker with a louvred view, and a failure that costs nothing.
Oct 30, 2026Hollow Ward
Prompts that follow your hands
Keyboard and controller both work all the time, and on-screen prompts switch to whichever you touched last.
Oct 30, 2026Hollow Ward
Verifying what the camera sees
I build Hollow Ward with an AI coding assistant that cannot see the editor. The lesson of phase one: never call something right from a thumbnail, and measure when orientation is ambiguous.
Prefer daylight?
The other game is a colony sim about building a home and a rocket.