In December 2025, Yacht Club Games founder Cris Velasco said that despite the studio's success with the 2014 hit Shovel Knight, it would be in serious trouble if its then-upcoming game Mina the Hollower wasn't a hit: "It's make-or-break for sure," Velasco said at the time. Six months later, Mina has arrived, and it looks like the studio has made it—for now, at least.
Velasco told Bloomberg that Mina the Hollower sold 300,000 copies in its first three days of release, putting it well above the 200,000 figure he said last year "would be really, really great." It's still off the "golden" mark of 500,000 units sold, but the very strong critical response—Mina is currently tied with Forza Horizon 6 as the top-rated game of 2026 on Metacritic—means that sales number will likely continue to climb.
