Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists

What a bizzare and delightful experience! Will gladly delve into a terrible winterscape, get caught, abandon half the loot, aid a creepy old lady and then proceed to lose it all inches from victory again! XD

Played two runs & have won one! Fun! I like the low transparency of the options, I'm glad for something that has narrative but isn't super taxing on the brain.

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Well, well, well... A game by the same guys who did "Choose your own adventure: The Barbarian guys who really like cows." and "Stinky barbarian rancher simulator 5000" comes with another game except instead of guarding nonstop cows and randomly failing quests over and over to the gods because of bad dice rolls, you get a odd fantasy choose your own adventure about dudes who leap into hell only to proceed to sodomized and hurt by everything in there. Honestly, it's hard to write about Thousand Hells. While Dragon Pass and it's similar games had strategy, it feels like Thousand hells really is just a luck based game with extremely annoying odds against you. The game works like this: 1. You pick your crew. Often, your line-up doesn't matter too much because you will pick four different professions and just hope that that you have either the option to use your very limited resources to pass a challenge for events that don't align with any of your members. Oddly enough, even though it doesn't effect gameplay, gender doesn't line up with portrait's so I got some dude who is 6'7 with a beard being like "UHHH IM A SHE" which is odd, but whatever. 2. You run into events. And here is the biggest problem - These events, lets say hypothetically you are dumb and pick four fighters for your hells heist because, you failed basic cognitive processes and thought this was a really good idea. Anywho - Despite your poor decision making, you run into a event where you have to use violence and it requires fighting! So, you should be good, right? No. The reason being is the frustrating, insanely awful, absurd tile bag system. You click on drawing tiles and these tiles often are so useless it's amazing. Your four beefy fighters now draw the following tiles "Bob likes pie" "Jim hates going to the church on Sundays" "Gorthlax the Conqueror is scared of the dark" "Pizza day is Friday" And all of these choices will result in a failure regardless of what option you pick. The randomness of the tile game is the core of the challenge, which just feels like each run is a test of luck rather then intellect or skill. Sure, there is some slight brain power requiring matching to tiles to choices, but often you will throw your hands up in the air and scream as your forth run near the end turns into a failure just because you didn't roll 6 out 6 50+ times. All in all, it's very hard to recommend Thousand Hells. I would say it's interesting and as always with Kitfox games, the lore and writing are very unique. But would I rate it positive? No. But would I rate it negative as well? No. I'll rate this as a positive but ONLY on a deep sale and you want to kill a few hours. If you really like gambling, then you might get a kick.

It's pretty good if old school - no progression or overarching story. Just disconnected heists. But they are pretty satisfying.

Brutal, saved the poor unfortunate soul from hellprison and once we got back up to the surface one of my crew slit the rescued prisoners throat because they allegedly killed a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of people. The guy that hired me to do the rescue is now heartbroken and only does goth songs. 10/10 would raise hell again

This game rocks, but get ready for x-com levels of flubbing rolls. Luck seems to play an outsized role, but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ if it isn't fascinating. Losing is interesting and seeing all the various events is awesome. Hope this is a giant hit, feels like a game that can be endlessly expanded.