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A hooded dealer with a skull for a face sits across a card table by candlelight, red tentacles spreading up the wall behind his seat.

The Hollow Table

You wake at a table in a house in the woods. Across it sits a dealer with a skull for a face, and he wants you to play.

Coming soon to Windows, macOS and Meta Quest

Watch the trailer

It is raining. You do not remember your name. The candles are lit, the cards are dealt, and the thing across the table is smiling with a face that has no skin.

The Hollow Table is a first-person horror card game in two halves that feed each other.

Trailer

1 minute 51 seconds, with sound.

At the table

Lay creatures in four lanes, feed them with blood and bone, and ring the bell. Push the planchette five marks his way before he pushes it five marks yours.

Build your deck spread by spread down a road of duels, charms and choices, to the Arcana at the end of each one: the Tower, Judgement, the Wheel, the Hanged Man, Death, the Moon, and the last face he keeps for himself. Every Arcana plays by rules of its own.

The card table from the player's seat: cards laid in lanes on a dark cloth, the dealer's bone hands at its far edge, a brass bell and candles beside it.
A duel under the Tower

In the house

Stand up from the table, take a candle, and walk the house. Every room hides something: riddles in clockwork and paint and bells, papers in drawers, memories that come back in pieces. Three little sisters want to play their games with you, and they do not like to lose.

And the house goes deeper than a house should: a drowned crypt, a bell tower whose church is gone, a field of corn where not all of them stay on their crosses. Some nights the moon is full, and there is a way out into the woods, and something out there that runs.

A candle held in the foreground lights a timber hall where the dealer sits at a long table under an iron chandelier.
The table, from across the room
A brick vault flooded with dark water, lit by one candle.
The drowned crypt
Skulls set in stone niches on both sides of a narrow vault, by candlelight.
The ossuary
Bell ropes with striped grips hang in a stone chamber beside a lantern and painted boards.
The ringing chamber of the bell tower
A path between tall rows of corn at night.
The corn
A hooded figure stands on a moonlit path between pines.
The woods, and what runs in them
A long timber house in a clearing in daylight, its windows lit.
The house, in a dream

What you will find

  • A full card game: over a hundred creatures, nearly thirty sigils, charms, tarot omens, cursed cards and a Lunar Altar to mend them
  • Seven Arcana duels, each with its own rules and its own faces
  • A whole house to explore between hands, with riddles, secrets, papers and memories that tell one man’s story, and several ways it can end
  • Story, Normal and Demonic difficulty: play for the house and what happened in it, or for the cruellest table there is
  • After an ending, the dire omens: ten ways for the dealer to deal the table darker, taken as many at a time as you dare, each one more opened by a night won under the last
  • Optional hints for the riddles, given slowly and only if you ask for them
  • Text size, sound captions, reduced flashing, colour-blind marks and full controller support
  • Eleven languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, German, French and Turkish

Where to play

Windows and macOS

On Steam, coming soon

Play with a mouse and keyboard, or with a controller.

Meta Quest

On the Meta Horizon Store, coming soon

Walk the house with a candle in your hand, sit down at his table and take each card from the cloth yourself. Turn in steps or smoothly, with a comfort vignette or without, and play seated or standing.

Before you play

The Hollow Table is a horror game. It has frightening imagery and sudden frights, with skulls, bones and blood as part of the card game, and it speaks of death, grief and the deaths of children. A “Reduce flashing” setting is there if you need it.

It has no sexual content, no gambling for real money and nothing to buy inside the game.