The Huntress of the Hollow
A downloadable game for Windows
Background:
Lenora Calamint lives with her mother in a small village called Pokeweed Hollow on the outskirts of a forest. She often delivers food to her stubborn grandmother, who prefers to live alone in the woods. While the forest is a dangerous place full of wolves, the village and her grandmother's house were peaceful.
However, once a travelling, charismatic hunter decided to settle near the village and offered to protect it, the local wolves became mysteriously violent and began to attack the village in erratic bursts of activity. Due to these events, some villagers praise the hunter for his help in keeping the wolves out of their homes. The others can't help but think there's something suspicious about the matter. Despite it all, Lenora still has a grandmother to take care of, and so she wakes up to begin her routine of visiting her grandmother anew.
Play This Game If You Like:
- 100% original graphics
- Dialogue-heavy narration and storylines
- Quick games that complete in 1hr or under
- Female protagonists
- Multiple endings
- Unnecessary sprint and crawl toggle mechanics that are fun anyway so sure whatever
- Pokemon Yellow-inspired color palettes
- Western fairytale retellings that don't have too much grimdark
- The color pink
Download
Install instructions
The download is hosted on mediafire: MAKE SURE YOU HAVE POPUPS ENABLED!
After downloading, unzip the game into its own folder. Instructions on playing the game are in the Read Me file in the main folder. To run the game, double-click on rpg_rt.exe inside the main folder.
If the game says it's "missing the RTP", download and run the version that says (with RTP) in the title and try running that instead. The game should not require owning rpgmaker 2k3 to play.
Comments
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Is anyone else having trouble with extracting the Setup file from the zip. folder? File won't work even if I click on it inside the zip. folder.
This is such a great game! I did a blind playthrough of it for Spooky Month, and I loved the pink dark fairytale aesthetic! It was so much fun to play!
hello, i was wondering if i could make a video about this game. i was hoping to start a rpg maker gameplay channel on youtube but its completely fine if you do not wish for a video to be made
would love to see it!!
The style of this game was just delightful !! The colours, the fight mechanics, the storylines, just absolutely wonderful !!
I did end up having some trouble getting the thing to work, because it downloaded as a download folder and I had to go retrieve a ".rar opener" to finish the job, which is intentional, but I didn't realise until i read someone else's words in the comments (thank you lads <3)
I also ended up locating a bug !! In the fight against the alpha wolf, when selecting {behead the wolf}, my game...malfunctioned and just kept continuing the fight? And then, a few hits later, it would give me the same question, and it would happen AGAIN, the fight just kept Looping. It was only thanks to the bonus room that I knew for sure that was a bug, and that's where Ending B is supposed to be located.
Thank you for creating <3 This was a lovely game to experience, even if I did end up having some personal issues with it lol
This is one the best things I've ever played because I am LIVING for the art direction. It reminds me of a DS game I played as a girl, A Witch's Tale, which is one of my favourite games because of its fairy tale theming crossed with cutesy spooky! I just adore the twisting of cute and spooky, which this does perfectly! I love the gradient as you go through the game but the pink area is definitely my favourite of them, I wish there were more pink games! I'm also a huge fan of being a cute girl slaying wolves, that is the power fantasy fulfillment I crave haha thank you so so much!!
Here's my video:
-Made a Video.
"Loved this game a lot! The art & even just the color choices alone already made me like it. The music is also pretty good to listen to, the one in the red forest (forget the name of it) is probably my favorite."ill play this again hahahha cuz its so cute
PLS make it available for mac. i'll blesss u and give u virtual hugs. this game seems super interesting I would love to play it. but I can't, help a sistah out pretty pls developer-san 💗💖💗💖💗
Very good game! A fascinating spin on Little Red Riding Hood. The gameplay was pretty simple and fun. The characters were interesting. The art/aesthetic was fantastic! One of my favorite parts of a game is its aesthetic, and this was really neat. I loved the twists and turns throughout the story too. You did great with the writing, and the true ending was fantastic (and surprisingly difficult to get based off logical choices).
Reminded me a little bit of Grimm's Hollow, and Lenora's art kind of reminded me of Madeline from Celeste.
I remember playing this game during 2020 summer! It was short, but fun, and the graphics are adorable! Reminds me of Grimm's Hollow!
Did you make it with RPGM2k3?
fantastic art!!!
so impressive! i love the the colour choice, game mechanics and how all the characters are fleshed out!
spoiler:
i assume that cayne and avel are meant to resemble cain and abel? if so, sneaky choice!! haha
I did not catch this until now. That definitely has to be on purpose! Props to the creator for that.
It is quite the pleasure to see thee again; I had feared that after fleshchild's cancellation, you had stepped down from your role as a developer; I am glad I was wrong.
Is fun that in 'Play this game if you like' they (sorry i don't know fi they use he/she) added 'The color pink' XD
cayne... hot. not in huntsman form tho
I love the music! Cute game, great art.
I really liked this, ngl at the beginning where she begins hunting, it threw me off because I kept dying by the 2 wolves but I eventually defeated it. And I think I got the true ending (is ending S the true ending?) at first try (in terms of getting endings other than game over) since I already got to access the bonus room, which was nice btw. I'll try to get the other endings since it said in the bonus room that Lenora's age is a teen but grows up into an adult in certain endings, and I'm curious for that.
Quick question: how many endings are there? and how to crawl since it said in the description that there is a crawl toggle mechanic, or is it just the walk and run thing?
Fun game to take around a hour of your time
On the cover picture that you clicked on to get to this page, is she actually that thicc or is that just a dress? I really have no clue.
'Genuine Question'
both.
Probably the dress since it looks like the wind is just flowing(?) lifting(?) (idk the exact words, but you get what I mean right?) her dress, like she just ascended from the sky.
Hey, the download is a document not a zip for me D: what do I need to do?
im having the same issue :\
Hey! I got it after a while, instead you didnt figure it out yet, the download being a document isnt an issue, you can download it like that (with popups enabled ) and use a .rar opener to open it (I used Breezip ), after that go on setup in the file, and itll download
This game looks amazing and the story seems really interesting, But for some reason whenever I open it it says the file is missing and I need to reinstall it. And there's no download with the RTP. Can someone please give me a solution?
Oh my goodness this game was incredible! I fell in love with the graphics and the storyline is wonderful! ^-^
Pink and cute I love it wow <3
Hey to install this game i need some sort or rar zip opener.could you recommend some safe ones since a lot of the ones I've come across are security risks.thanks cant wait to play!
Hello! Try WinRAR! It has an official website so just make sure to download from there. It has a paid and free version, but you can pretty much use the free version forever.
There will just be a small window that pops up every time you use the program when the 30-day trial ends. You can just close it.
thanks i appreciate it
just played this on twitch today with my boyfriend and i loved it! here is the broadcast on youtube :)
Hello! I'm super interested in playing this game and plan on livestreaming it on my channel :D Would it be okay to monetize the stream? (I will play it regardless because this game looks absolutely stunning!)
Hi! I was wondering if the game would ever be released for IOS anytime in the future? Because i'm dying to play this! :)
When I downloaded the file there was no Read Me or rpg_rt.exe files. And when I set it up, it says the installation is complete, but I can't find the game anywhere on my laptop.
EDIT: Nevermind, I was installing the files to the wrong user ^_^'
I love how this came with instructions and that's really helpful I also love the game but the first time I ended up with ending E but I loved it so much keep up the great work
I just played through the game, it was neat little experience. The beginning was quite challenging until I finally used my resorts more sparingly. I liked the progress of power Lenora goes through as the game goes on, where the hunted becomes the hunter. I thought the grandma would have been the true villain but that would be too cliche.
Just finished playing through this and got the S ending. This is such a gem, was a joy to play! Beautiful music, art-style, and the story was lovely. Thanks.
HOW COME EVERY SHORT STORY I FIND TAKES SOO MUCH STORAGE?! Buuut I liked it very much! The colors fits the atmosphere and I love the art!
Wow. Just... wow. I wasn't sure what to expect when I started playing this game, but it left me pleasantly surprised. I loved the music, the art, the effects, and most especially: the story. I just found it completely amazing, and I like that I got Ending S on this 1st run. And all the endings are so... wow.
I loved this. It is amazing.
can you please make a Mac book version, this game looks fun.
Agreed! I would love to play this game but I only have a mac :(
I am trying to download this using the itch.io app, and I cannot seem to get it to work.
It just immediately goes to install and then cancels.
idk what to do
help plez
You cannot use the itch.io app because the game is hosted on a different website; you will have to download it manually through the website. The game is also not compatible with mobile phones.
Just an update, the itchio app works fine now and no longer has an external file host thing ;)
Very late reply, but hopefully this helps somebody in the future:
I still had a hiccup launching after installing with the itch.io app where I got a "The requested operation requires escalation" error.
This is probably more of a workaround, but running the setup.exe manually to install the game files into the same folder, and then removing setup.exe made it work with the app. Removing setup.exe afterward was important because otherwise it would keep trying to run that as the game.