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Hollowspire

a chill, clicker-inspired game where you dig through blocks of dirt and stone, craft, and upgrade your abilities — all in pursuit of reaching the depths and uncovering its mysteries.

  • Use mouse click to dig through the world.

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Updated 5 days ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5, Windows
Rating
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(276 total ratings)
AuthorsSimex, anstabo
GenreSimulation
Made withUnity
TagsCartoon, Casual, chill, Clicker, Crafting, Creepy, Cute, Hand-drawn, Idle, Ludum Dare 57
Average sessionA few minutes
LanguagesEnglish
InputsMouse
LinksLudum Dare

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nice game !

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Please consider making an option to turn down the volume or mute the music.  I really like the digging sound effects, but the music starts to grate after a few loops.

No matter how great the music is, a large chunk of your players may not like hearing it looping over and over, and will just mute the whole game, missing out on any sound effects you spent the time to make and put in to your game.

Can you make it so you sav your progress when you delete the tab?

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Hey there! I played the game for an hour and wrote up a small report with some feedback.

Feel free to reach out to me if you want further testing!

Definitions

High

- A big issue, such as a crash or stall

Medium

- Missing assets / images, but does not break the game entirely

Low

- A minor issue like a grammatical error

🐛BUGS (5):

1/5 🐛 [MEDIUM] Miner doesnt pick up new pick axe while waiting
Description: 1. Have a couple miners focus on the remaining rocks 2. Plop down a pick axe that one of the idle miners can pick up 3. Note that while the rocks are still up, the idle miners sit there instead of picking up the pick axe
2/5 🐛 [LOW] Money icon is pixellated
Description: 1. get into game 2. Note money icon is pixellated
3/5 🐛 [LOW] Miners all run towards equipment and use it if they don't need it
Description: 1. Have all miners wear the same shoe 2. Craft another shoe. 3. Note all miners run towards the shoe, then the shoe disappears 4. Suggestion is maybe the item cant be crafted in the first place if everyone has it. or equipment can have a durability so that once a shoe is used up, it will use that shoe in it's inventory.
4/5 🐛 [LOW] Minor typos on crafting items
Description: this is the shit -> This is the shit helmet 1 -> Helmet 1 (note sure if it should be called helmet 1)
5/5 🐛 [LOW] Click Radius description still secret after buying
Description: 1. Buy click radius 2. Hover over it. Note it still says its secret

💬FEEDBACK (5):

1/5 💬 Overall. I really like this take on a clicker game. It feels like there is some real progression and stakes to how you level up.
2/5 💬 I like the music. It's very calming
3/5 💬 I noticed when there are floating point numbers for attack damage it can get messy when multiple miners are dealing damage that is not a whole number.
4/5 💬 Just wanted to point out, but once I got the miners. I stopped using clicking almost entirely.
5/5 💬 I really like the pacing of the game. It doesn't get out of control too quickly, and you definitely feel like you are getting stronger. Alot of clickers end up having an enormous excess of one material that doesn't end up being used.

💡SUGGESTIONS (8):

1/8 💡 When I craft an item. Then click on another item to craft. There could be a prompt / effect letting me know that I still have a crafted item. and I need to take it out before attempting to craft another item.
2/8 💡 It's hard to know what miners have what equipment. Perhaps there could be a menu where you can see what the stats / upgrades each miner have so you know what to build
3/8 💡 Might be good in the crafting menu to use the icons for the resources needed to craft the item i.e. Improved Mining boots requires 10 stone, 7 metal, 3 gems. But not sure what gems it's talking about.
4/8 💡 I feel like sometimes it's hard to know if a button is active for crafting or upgrades. Maybe the enabled state / disabled state can use more contrast. Enabled being brighter with a border. Disabled maybe including some grayed out test and a much darker background
5/8 💡 I like how the crafting gives you random bonuses. Could be neat to have incremental powerups to have a possible bonuses when creating items
6/8 💡 Could be cool to have more types of miners to spawn that deal with different things. For example. Maybe getting rid of water, or drilling a hard mineral that needs special tools
7/8 💡 I think it might be good to have the text red for each specific resource that the player is lacking for the crafting menu
8/8 💡 Could be neat if I could convert minerals into money, if I wanted to buy the upgrades on the right quicker.
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Top tier ambiance! Terrifying progression! I love my little guys :)

I wish I could sell the metals so I can buy more little guys on the like 15th playthrough lol

Really enjoyed this game! The mood shifting as you got deeper was really coo

cool.

if you craft item A and while it is crafting, move to item B, the game will craft item B

I like that . It is so funny. VERY COOL.

We really loved playing Hollowspire on stream!

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Great mood on the first dig, with the ominous music and color shifts. Played the game way more than  reasonable (reached the bottom more than 10 times) and the progression stalls a bit fast. Would have been great to have something like a money multiplier or something to speed up the progression. Really cool game :)

Amazing game

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I played a slightly different version of the game : Zap The Hollowspire Blocks. It wasn't a profound experience, but it did work.


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This was really fun! Thx!

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nice game! I wonder what were you thinking when making the transition from happy top levels to scary below ones. The transition was subtle, hard to notice at first and hard to ignore at last, good evoking of feelings!

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Hey really cool, was expecting some eldritch ending but I liked.

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eIt's really fun, but I've run into the point that my miners are so fast that they have trouble standing on a block to mine

Fun short game, but there's a bug you can abuse where you start crafting one item, and swap over to another before its done, letting you make a pickaxe at the price of shoes.

Really really fun, I would advise to put another info with the items, like how many of your mines are equipped with one thing or not, so I dont have to look for what they have while they run away like crazy, but super interesting visual and concept, congrats!

It's cool but... short

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my screen went black after I finished the first layer. I hope this bug gets fixed because it looks like a fun game

interesting game

very fun!

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forgot the dye in my hair because the game was sooo addictive. my hair is lowk fried now but i enjoyed the game <

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valid

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I love it! The only bad thing i see is that miners rush for a piece of equipment even if they already are in full-gear. It's hard to equip new miners.

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amazing really amazing the games addictive and ive already finished it twice but whenever i exit it doesn't save but thats ok

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Miners dont seem to work horizontally. Only if they are on top of a block. I don't see much point in buying them. Is this intentional? 

Love the art style. 

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Having the same issue, both on browser and downloaded version.

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More linear than I expected. I wish there were more upgrades and possibilities to make more customized builds. Pretty relaxing with great visual style though. Cool game!

I have to admit. Cool style and relaxing gameplay, perfect for when you're bored.

Very good game

Nice one :)

the minions not working felt odd

start  was kinda meh but got hooked instantly, nice game!!

Nifty

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Ayo, miners don't work eh?! Them be walking an' kissin' the wallz but dig only once once the level resets eh

Greate!

Congrats! It was very pleasant to play... 

play this game none stop until my fingers tingling

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Super cozy and ejoyable clicker, im blown with how good it looks and feels while beeing so simple. really good game, but one thing that put me off was when my miner who was full equipped was constalny stealing items for other miners, to the point i couldn't even give them anything

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Really enjoyed the game.

But one thing bugged me: at the start, the "Click Radius" stat was already maxed out, yet labeled "The upgrade is secret...". That felt like a Chekhov’s gun — a hint at something to unlock later.

So I maxed out everything. Spent time, effort...

Clicked the final upgrade — and nothing happened.

I get it’s a game jam project, and there wasn’t time for extras.

Still, that label set up an expectation that never paid off

i finished this game and whoa, i felt so many stuf

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