Halls of Torment

Fix your game devs, people haver been reporting exactly same crashes independently of how good hardware is. My game runs smoothly and still crashes, always at boss battles, when there is no enemies, just the boss.

Games are the last honest churches we have left—places where we willingly descend into the dark, arm ourselves with fragile power, and rehearse the eternal comedy of becoming something greater only to be reminded that the abyss always hungers more. Halls of Torment gets this on a bone-deep level. It’s a survivor-like that doesn’t just ride the Vampire Survivors wave; it drags it down into pre-rendered Diablo 1 hell and makes it bleed style. You choose your tormented soul—each with its own flavor of suffering—and step into cursed halls where the dead don’t stay dead and every run is a thirty-minute sermon on momentum. You actually aim and click to strike instead of pure auto-fire, which adds that delicious tension: one half of your brain is locked in the dance of positioning, the other is frantically choosing upgrades while the screen explodes into pixelated carnage. Build a lightning-slinging nightmare one run, a tanky summoner the next, then watch it all spiral into beautiful, screen-filling chaos as enemies swarm like they’ve got a personal grudge. The atmosphere is pure gothic sacrament. That old-school pre-rendered look, the moody lighting, the way the music swells as the horde thickens—it feels like crawling through the catacombs beneath Tristram while the Lords of the underworld laugh at your audacity. Quests, character progression, items you can send “up” to improve future descents—it all feeds this quiet philosophy of endless striving. You grow stronger, unlock new halls and horrors, flirt with godhood… then one mistimed dash or a boss with ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hitboxes reminds you that no matter how stacked your build, the Torment always wins in the end. The dark humor is ever-present in the absurdity of it all. You’ll be feeling untouchable, raining death like some ascended legend, only for a random swarm to humble you in spectacular fashion. It’s irreverent and honest: we keep coming back to these digital hells because the grind feels meaningful, the power fantasy seductive, and the inevitable failure darkly funny. Some runs blur together in glorious repetition, but that’s the point. Life is the same loop dressed in better loot. Halls of Torment never pretends to be a flawless masterpiece. Balance has its tantrums, some grinds test your patience, and the late-game can feel oppressively tuned. But that imperfection is part of its charm. This is minimalist interactive art that respects your time while still demanding you earn every victory. In a sea of hollow live-service slop, it’s a focused, atmospheric descent that understands the real art of games is giving you just enough hope to keep walking back into the dark. 10/10 would descend into the Halls again tomorrow. Just one more run.

It doesn't really play as well as Vampire Survivors. Everything just feels like it's intended to be a grinding chore instead of genuinely fun.

Jogo extremamente viciante, com gráficos que remetem à Diablo 1, mecânicas muito mais interessantes e divertidas que o Vampire Survivors por exemplo. Recomendo demais. Para mim o seu único defeito é não ter um modo cooperativo de pelo menos 2 pessoas.

Se você for um velho saudosista que jogou diablo 1 na época que saiu, esse jogo deve coçar um comichão muito especifico na sua nostalgia. Os gráficos são "velhos" o suficiente sem ficar tosco, a jogabilidade é "travada" do jeito certo. Talvez um botão de esquiva caísse bem, mas ai é preferencia minha. Talvez a dificuldade do jogo escale de forma muito abrupta, precisando de um bom tanto de grind pra conseguir jogar o DLC e a ultima fase, mas não estraga a experiencia, caso você tenha tempo pra isso.

The game starts off incredibly fun but takes a nose dive and crashes after you beat the 5th level. At this point in the game grinding for potions becomes mandatory as your trait pool becomes more bloated and levels become harder and without acquiring 30 unique equipment you can not unlock the last level, good thing you're not guaranteed to get either in a run! did I mention a full run takes around 40 minutes! best of all any artifacts like hastening sand and strange pendulum that would make this already very tedious task any less tedious are locked behind the very level you're trying to unlock. Every time I seem to pick up this game again all I seem to receive is a couple of unrewarding runs and the taste of wasted time

Dont quite get it. After a few runs, I still havent found any interesting upgrades that actually change how you build your character, save for one (increased damage with missing health). You find increase to crit, but nothing that synergizes with crit; increase to attack speed, area, movement speed, etc... but it's all just what it says on the tin; no interaction with any other effects (e.g. pro on crit), which is what this genre is all about.

I really wish I could give HoT a good review because it offers everything I want out of a roguelike. Unfortunately, the game crashes out of nowhere, and since there's no saving during runs that means a crash always kills the player's progress dead. That's doubly infuriating considering runs take typically take more than half an hour to complete, as you're just out all that time if a crash comes near the end. Turning down my settings helped for a bit but the game just crashed AGAIN when I was four minutes away from beating a stage I'd been trying for days to get past. Recommendation to avoid until a much more stable version is released.