Flame in the Flood dev's fantasy village building adventure Drake Hollow out in July Eurogamer.net If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Flame in the Flood dev's fantasy village building adventure Drake Hollow out in July On Xbox One and PC. News by Matt Wales Reporter Updated on 20 May 2020 1 comment Drake Hollow, the exploratory village building adventure from the studio behind The Flame in the Flood, is coming to Xbox One and PC on 17th July. Unveiled last November, Drake Hollow is quite a departure from developer The Molasses Flood's 2016 rogue-like river survival game, delivering what sounds like a mash-up of fantasy themed farming sim, base defence, and exploration adventure. Players, plunged into the mysterious world of The Hollow, are tasked with protecting its friendly, vegetable-like inhabitants, known as Drakes. Primarily, that requires constructing a homestead equipped to cater to their every need, providing food and water for sustenance, alongside the likes of treadmills and solar power for electricity, yoga balls and puppet shows for entertainment, and even electric fences for protection. Drakes, you see, are constantly under threat from The Feral, considerably less jovial creatures that live beyond the village borders. Players - either tackling the challenge on their own or teaming up with friends - must fend off The Feral either through direct combat, using the likes of nail guns and tennis rackets, or by constructing automated defences. The general loop, then, appears to be that players will need to venture out and explore The Hollow, travelling between dynamically generated regions as the seasons progress, in order to gather supplies required to expand their movable villages and, in turn, explore further. Drake Hollow, should you now be appropriately intrigued, will be available on Xbox One, the Windows 10 store, Steam, and Game Pass when it releases on 17th July. Become a Eurogamer subscriber and get your first month for £1 Get your first month for £1 (normally £3.99) when you buy a Standard Eurogamer subscription. Enjoy ad-free browsing, merch discounts, our monthly letter from the editor, and show your support with a supporter-exclusive comment flair! Support us View supporter archive More News Splatoon 3 Amiibos will be out next month Ink-coming! 3 Fans think Phil Spencer's shelf is teasing the Xbox Game Pass streaming box UPDATE: Xbox confirms old Keystone prototype. 59 Modder dives into Demon's Souls files following PS5 jailbreak, discovers fabled Ring of the Chieftain Who knows what's nexus? 4 Google announces cloud gaming Chromebooks less than a fortnight after Stadia shutdown GeForce Now preinstalled. 11 Latest Articles Preview Football Manager's new Console edition is the best you'll get without a PC Getting Touch-right. Splatoon 3 Amiibos will be out next month Ink-coming! 3 Fans think Phil Spencer's shelf is teasing the Xbox Game Pass streaming box UPDATE: Xbox confirms old Keystone prototype. 59 Modder dives into Demon's Souls files following PS5 jailbreak, discovers fabled Ring of the Chieftain Who knows what's nexus? 4 Supporters Only Premium only Off Topic: Take a minute to appreciate Cookin' with Coolio's incredible scallops recipe. What a great book. Premium only Off Topic: Reading City of Glass in comic form "Where exactly am I going?" Premium only Off Topic: Il Buco is a transporting film about a really big hole Underlands. Off-Topic Netflix handled Sandman brilliantly It was Dreamy. 9 Buy things with globes on them And other lovely Eurogamer merch in our official store! Explore our store