Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists

First of all : THIS IS NOT KoDP or Six ages. Treat Thousand hells on its onw merit. Its a very different game. I am.. conflicted on this one.. so lets dissect thousand hells first : the good. art is good writing is pretty above average. but it can be hit and miss sometimes. the gameplay: thousand hells tries to capture the experience of a homebrew tabletop session. passing check can be infuriating but that's the point. you are delving into the world that doesn't work on sense alone. some fails are harmful, others aren't. it can seem you are blind and instruction are unclear but its not. it just needs some getting used to. its like playing the cultist simulator for the first time. the Bad: my main issue is the amount of content. by the time you unlock all the stories the event will repeat, especially in the pre-underworld. the game is named Thousand Hells looks inside: four. overall I would still recommend this one but would recommend waiting until its on sale. its not perfect but its definetly better than AI slot we are getting these days.

The replay value is real with this one. The stories are great. The characters have interesting quarks that influence the stories. To be honest, it is challenging. The decision you have to make have legs on them and I lost 2 times before I actually won a story. I'm hooked. I can't wait to dive into it deeper. There is so much I have not unlocked. Great job devs!

Incredibly captivating, with beautiful art and great writing to pair with it. The character writing is done so well that i found myself forgetting the characters were procedurally generated to begin with! I've seen complaints regarding difficulty, but I've only had one run so far and managed to beat it despite still not fully understanding how the challenge mechanic works yet. Maybe I'm just really lucky, or i've intuited something about the mechanics better than other people, but either way difficulty has not been a problem for me.

This is a visual gamebook with a lot of random elements, but also feels incredibly satisfying when you manage to win a run. Each run only takes at most an hour, so the value is in the replayability, and the way that the game makes you feel a sort of unifying narrative to each run. There is no meta-currency, so the main way to get ahead is to get a feel for what kinds of skills would be useful once you see the map. So far, I've lost my first run, then won my second run after planning better and getting more lucky.

Good punchy visualy rich writing, and an engaging yet simple game system - makes for a snappy (around an hour for each storie) interactive quest with alot of emergent story beats. Add to that impressive artwork and music (in which i want more of) and you get a pretty enjoyable game. Big fan of previous A Sharp projects, this one is an interesting direction of modular storytelling.

I've only done one run of this game so far, but can tell I'm going to be doing so many more. It's like a choose your path adventure story with more meat on the bones: challenges, choices in one area affecting another, the music and art are great. I can't wait to do plenty of more runs and see what all this has to offer. Works well on steam deck besides the tutorial tips not having a dedicated way to clear them (they go away with the next action but sometimes they're a bit in the way). Some people may not care for the fuzziness of some of the traits and how they would fare as an action, but I'm going to give that more time before I come to a conclusion on it myself.

amazing storytelling, lore, and writing.

I'm saying this after one complete run, but it already gave me one of the most unique adventures I've read, with some tough moments of choice and tension. I think it's a superbly written game with beautiful music and art. Worth it for even just one playthrough