Hearth & Hollow

Hearth & Hollow is a gentle pixel-art village builder where you are the Mayor — strolling your own lanes, raising rooftops, and keeping your folk smiling.

Start with a campfire, a patch of meadow and two hopeful settlers. Open your blueprints, place a cottage, a farm plot, a forester's camp — then watch each dawn pay out what your village made, while your settlers wander out to work, chatter by the well, and tuck into bed when the lanterns glow.

Keep the folk happy. Full larders, a bed for everyone, and lovely things — a stone well, a bustling tavern, a quiet chapel, wildflowers along the lanes. Happy settlers draw newcomers up the valley road; grumbling ones pack up and leave. Spirits drift day and night with a living clock: birdsong mornings, fireflies at dusk, crickets after dark.

Grow a hamlet into a Town. Milestones unlock new blueprints as your population climbs — stone houses, the market, the chapel, a fine manor. Found the Town of Hearth & Hollow with 25 settlers and joyful spirits, then keep decorating forever.

• Walk-and-build: explore on foot, press B to lift the camera into build view
• 19 placeables: homes, trades, village hearts and decorations, each with costs and gentle effects
• A living day/night cycle with warm sunsets, glowing windows and sleepy villagers
• Synthesized lute-and-harp music, meadow ambience and soft hand-crafted sounds