It's Hollow alright
Hollow was on sale for £2 and I still felt as though I'd been ripped off.
It started with a long monologue and poorly mixed audio before the game began and the first thing that's apparent is the graphics. I played the Nintendo Switch version and the graphics... are glaring, it's so high contrast that the darkness is complete, but the flashlight causes reflections on every single surface and then glares against your visor?? Visually it's a nightmare, you can't see much without the flashlight you can't see much of anything and when you turn it on because your assaulted with lens flares, you can pick up notes and photographs to examine (we'll get to those later, hoo boy) and not be able to read them, because your flashlight just causes the sheet to turn pure white, if the game didn't have a feature to spell it out on the screen in simple text, there would be no way to read some of them.
The walking speed would make the average tortoise scoff in embarrassment, it's painfully slow and the running speed is more like a weak power-walk. The corridors of the ship are all visually similar with many re-used assets and areas that are designed the same, it's very confusing, especially with the darkness/brightness. The map has a birds eye view of only around 20 meters ahead of you, meaning you can't really plan very far ahead and either have to mindlessly follow the map and hope you're going in the right direction or just give up and wander around anyway. There's backtracking too and none of it is pleasant. The puzzles range from embarrassingly easy to overtly obtuse with clues pointing you to wrong conclusion on many occasions.
The enemies in the game are all variations of naked women that just run straight at you, which you can either shoot or kick back and shoot because the kick does no damage, the ammo for the guns isn't that scarce but the aiming isn't that great and wasting shots will inevitably lead you to running out, reloading before you've finished a clip also leads you to wasting ammo you had. The game will sometimes initiate horde mode where the lights will go out and you'll be accosted by 5 or 6 of them so it's always good to have as much ammo as humanly possible because once you run out, you're done for.
The game opens with there being no crew on board and you having to restore the power, there's messages about playing a game, the main character expresses that he remembers nothing and when you finally meet the only survivor she tells him he's good at forgetting and promptly disappears, you spend ages chasing ghosts and following breadcrumbs with very little reward.
Is it scary though? There are a few moments when the game suddenly drops you into a "hallucination" when all the enemies suddenly swarm on you, but the combat itself isn't the frightening element, it's just being startled by the lights going out, that's as deep as it gets. There's a feeling of nausea from the soundtrack being overbearing sometimes (not to mention combined with the graphics) but it all just feels... hollow.
And finally, for no real reason, they included collectable posters of topless women, there's many of them around the ship anyway but some you can pick up and view for whatever reason. What this adds to the game is a mystery, what the developers were thinking when they decided that what this game really needs is random nudity is also a mystery.
Hollow is lame, confusing, nauseating and full of tits and disappointment. Hard pass.