Poltava-based video game developer Vitaliy Chyzh, who previously created projects about the Kharkiv metro and the Barabashovo market, has revealed his new game. It is a first-person shooter with a semi-open world in the setting of the Tunguska anomaly and a Ukrainian adventure novel.
Poltava-based video game developer Vitaliy Chyzh, who previously created projects about the Kharkiv metro and the Barabashovo market, has revealed his new game. It is a first-person shooter with a semi-open world in the setting of the Tunguska anomaly and a Ukrainian adventure novel.
«For the first time in more than a year, I’m writing here not just to announce something, but to show it off! The Hollow, a game we’ve already invested our soul, money, time, nerves, a lot of coffee, and swearing (it was said to the code by my programmer, and also by me for the shaders), has finally got a page on Steam!», — said Chyzh on the GamedevDOU forum.
The Hollow tells the story of the late 1960s and the GUTAB (or GULA) camp system. The action will take place in «Zaslon» — a secret place in Siberia where the Soviet Union held its best scientists and dangerous prisoners disloyal to the regime, who rebelled under the leadership of former aviation engineer Mnogohrishny.
«We have everything according to our standards! Ukrainian voice acting, a good plot, which includes Bagryany, Mnohogrishny, Kondratyuk, heroes of the uprisings in GUTAB, and indigenous peoples of Siberia. I have been thinking about this game since 2015. And it will finally appear!», — said Vitaliy Chyzh.
Players will take on the role of «Morok», the son of one of the scientists who has been developing a secret weapon here based on a special mineral — tungusium. He will find out what this weapon is and who controls it
«The barrier defies the standard laws of physics, as a meteorite once fell on this spot, changing the area beyond recognition. Magnets with different polarities appeared in the rock here, giving rise to „Petriks“ — flying stones that hover and seem to whisper something. Here, one of the local people suffers from nightmares that were described only in his legends,» says the description of The Hollow.
The game will offer different weather conditions, a semi-open world, and five types of weapons. The developers promise encounters with historical figures who were a threat to the communist regime, a plot inspired by an adventure novel, and stylized 2000s graphics.
The Hollow is scheduled for release in spring 2026. You can add the project to your Steam wishlist now.
Previously, Vitaliy Chyzh released the game " Twenty-Second: Stories of Underground Kharkiv " about the events of 2022 in the Kharkiv metro, as well as " Drum: Master Trader " about a student who in the future trades at the largest industrial and commodity market in Ukraine — Barabashovo.
