Hollow Mire - The Shining Meets Disco Elysium in a New Psychological Horror - Demo Out December 9

 

Mowlo Games announces December 9th Demo Release Date for choice-driven horror - Hollow Mire.

Set in the quiet, grief-stricken years after the war, Hollow Mire blends psychological horror with a deeply emotional story of memory, loss, and a mind slipping between truth and madness.

Players step into the fractured inner world of John Rowe, a World War 2 veteran turned journalist whose wife and daughter vanished without explanation. When a new assignment brings him to the remote Breken House, long-buried memories of his family and of the war claw their way to the surface, distorting reality around him.
 
Running parallel to John’s unravelling is Detective Gwen Porter’s investigation into a missing patient and a murdered orderly at the archaic and brutal Bordon Down Asylum, uncovering a chilling connection that binds their stories together.
 
The game features highly detailed and realistic hand-painted environments inspired by mid-20th-century England. 

A beautifully produced dark-cello soundtrack supports the game’s themes of loss and memory, shifting between tension and sorrow, and rising to fear and action, while a fully-voiced cast delivers a strong experience with memorable character performances.

Players are invited to navigate Hollow Mire's dark story through branching-decisions, action-based war flashback sequences, relationship management, investigative puzzles and memory reconstruction, ultimately leading to 8 unique endings.  

“Hollow Mire is inspired by a time when Britain was still recovering from war, and families were learning to live with the painful reality that many soldiers would never return home. That sense of lingering absence sits at the heart of the story. Players should expect Hollow Mire to visit mature themes in some of the most difficult times in human history.” says the development team at Mowlo Games.
 
A Playable Demo arrives on Steam December 9th, 2025.
A Full release is planned for PC Via Steam in late 2026.

Key Features

• A branching, choice-driven narrative with eight endings
• Two intertwined perspectives across past and present
• Fully voiced performances
• High detail and realistic hand-painted mid-century 2D environments
• Investigative puzzles & memory reconstruction
• Thrilling War Flashback Sequences
• Haunting cello-driven soundtrack

Availability
Players can wishlist the game today and follow for future updates.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3357160/HOLLOW_MIRE/