{"id":264772,"date":"2026-06-05T06:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/heres-how-to-play-mina-the-hollower-on-android-no-game-streaming-needed\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T06:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:50:17","slug":"heres-how-to-play-mina-the-hollower-on-android-no-game-streaming-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/heres-how-to-play-mina-the-hollower-on-android-no-game-streaming-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s how to play Mina the Hollower on Android, no game streaming needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/run-mina-the-hollower-android-3674796\/\">Here&#8217;s how to play Mina the Hollower on Android, no game streaming needed<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/run-mina-the-hollower-android-3674796\/\">https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/run-mina-the-hollower-android-3674796\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-05 06:43:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidauthority.com\">www.androidauthority.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hadlee Simons \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n<p>TL;DR<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mina the Hollower is one of the hottest games of the year, but it doesn\u2019t have an Android port.<\/li>\n<li>Fortunately, you can run the game via apps like GameNative.<\/li>\n<li>Our own experience shows that the title runs smoothly, but there\u2019s bad news for older Pixels and other devices with Mali GPUs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mina the Hollower is one of the hottest new games in 2026, coming from the same team behind the popular Shovel Knight franchise. The title is available on the Nintendo Switch and Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series consoles, and computers. There\u2019s no official mobile port, but you can still run the game on your Android phone if you don\u2019t have a console or PC. And we\u2019re not talking about game streaming.<\/p>\n<p>GameNative, GameHub, and Winlator are the three most popular PC gaming apps on Android, letting you run PC titles locally on your smartphone or tablet. The former is the most intuitive app right now, so we\u2019ve used it to run Mina the Hollower. Here\u2019s how.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don\u2019t want to miss the best from Android Authority?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"e_Ph\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"9.375rem\" title=\"google preferred source badge light@2x\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x.png 676w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x-64w-20h.png 64w\" alt=\"google preferred source badge light@2x\" src=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x.png\"\/><img class=\"e_Ph\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"9.375rem\" title=\"google preferred source badge dark@2x\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x.png 676w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x-64w-20h.png 64w\" alt=\"google preferred source badge dark@2x\" src=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><h2>Installing Mina the Hollower on your Android device<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"e_Ph\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"(min-width: 64rem) 51.25rem, 80vw\" title=\"Mina the Hollower GameNative 1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Mina-the-Hollower-GameNative-1.jpg 2340w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Mina-the-Hollower-GameNative-1-64w-30h.jpg 64w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Mina-the-Hollower-GameNative-1-1000w-462h.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Mina-the-Hollower-GameNative-1-1920w-886h.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Mina-the-Hollower-GameNative-1-1536w-709h.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Mina-the-Hollower-GameNative-1-675w-312h.jpg 675w\" alt=\"Mina the Hollower GameNative 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Mina-the-Hollower-GameNative-1.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Hadlee Simons \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n<p>GameNative supports games from your Steam library, GOG, Epic, Amazon, and local game files. I bought the game via the Steam app on my phone, but you can also opt for GOG if you want a DRM-free version. Nevertheless, once you buy the game on either platform, you should see it listed in your Steam or GOG library on GameNative.<\/p>\n<p>You then need to tap on the Mina the Hollower listing in GameNative and hit the \u201cinstall\u201d button. The following screen will confirm the game\u2019s download size (~745MB) and size on disk (~842MB), as well as your device\u2019s available space. Simply tap the \u201cinstall\u201d button on this screen to begin the download and installation process.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"e_et\">Have you played PC games on your Android device?<\/h3>\n<p>1 votes<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I do it all the time<\/p>\n<p>0%<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I do it now and again<\/p>\n<p>0%<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tried it once or twice<\/p>\n<p>100%<\/p>\n<p>No, but I&#8217;d like to try it<\/p>\n<p>0%<\/p>\n<p>No, and I&#8217;m not&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/run-mina-the-hollower-android-3674796\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s how to play Mina the Hollower on Android, no game streaming needed https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/run-mina-the-hollower-android-3674796\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":264773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Mina-the-Hollower-running-on-GameNative-app-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-264772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264774,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264772\/revisions\/264774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}