Mina the Hollower Goes Gold as Yacht Club Moves Into First-Party Submission

April 24 moved Mina from delay talk to certification

Mina the Hollower hit a concrete milestone on April 24. Yacht Club Games posted that the game has gone gold, meaning the build is complete and has entered submission with its first-party platform partners. The studio did not attach a final launch date to the announcement, but the important shift is operational. Mina is no longer being discussed as an open-ended work in progress. It is now in the certification queue.

The public release window still points to Spring 2026 on PS5

That gold update lands on top of a release window Yacht Club had already put in public. In February, the studio said the game would launch in Spring 2026 on PS5, and that a demo would carry progress over to the full release. The same PlayStation Blog post described Mina as a 20+ hour action-adventure with over 25 bosses and mini-bosses and 60 trinkets. On Steam, the store page is still using the broader label of 2026. Put together, the messaging now looks like a title moving from window talk into final scheduling.

No exact date yet, but the remaining unknown is small

The key line in Yacht Club’s post is that the team expects to share the final release date once the submission process clears. That leaves one important uncertainty still open, but it is a much narrower one than before. The game is built, platform review has started, and the remaining wait is about approvals and a locked launch slot rather than feature completion. For players following the project through its delays, that distinction matters.

Reddit mixed relief with questions about the extra months

The r/Games thread sat at 576 points and 52 comments at crawl time. The overall tone was positive, but one repeated question was what changed during the extended delay after the game had once sounded close to the finish line already. Another cluster of replies simply echoed the studio’s gold announcement and treated it as the clearest sign yet that the wait is almost over. The community mood was not skeptical about whether the game exists. It was curious about what the extra time bought.

Source: Yacht Club Games Bluesky post · PlayStation Blog · Steam store page · Reddit discussion