Halls of Torment is a casual roguelite action rpg presented in a pre rendered retro look reminiscent of RPGs from the late 90s. Choose one of many hero characters and descend into the deadly Halls of Torment. Fight unholy horrors from beyond and survive wave after wave until you face one of the tormented lords. Advance your hero with character traits, abilities, and items. Create a new powerful build during each run. Explore various underground expanses and find new powerful items that enable you to venture even deeper into the abyss.

Features

Quick and casual runs of maximum 30 minutes
Old school pre rendered artstyle
Quest based meta progression
Large selection of diverse abilities, traits, and items, all enabling you to create interesting synergies
Diverse bosses featuring unique mechanics and attack patterns
Items can be retrieved to the overworld and used to customize future runs
Dozens of interesting characters allowing many different playstyles
Unlock and explore multiple interesting and challenging underground worlds
Interactable environments: Use traps and hazards to your advantage!

A HoT Teaser of Bards and Bogs

Hello Adventurers!

We took the past months to test new waters, plan ahead, and do some experimentation for Halls of Torment. Now that the path is clear and the development is in full swing, wed like to give you an update about where we are and what is coming.

New Free Update - Bardcore

While working on the release of Halls of Torment, weve had a vision for a character that should be part of the base game. But back then the workload was simply too high and we decided to add this specific character in a later update. Since then, weve continued our work and well soon be ready to release the character with six unique abilities and some additional content.

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Well share more details about this in a later post. Weve always wanted this character to be a special reward for beating the game (i.e. beating the Lord of Greed in the Vault), and they will finally arrive in a free update later this year!

First DLC - Boglands

Our initial idea of Halls of Torment as a self-contained and rounded experience was very clear and we hadnt put much thought beyond this point. But due to the positive reception and because were still full of ideas, we decided to release additional content packages. The first of which will contain a new stage, the Boglands, and two new characters. Were going to release this as a paid DLC alongside the above-mentioned big free update later this year.

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Console Versions

As teased several times before, we are working on console versions of Halls of Torment. Its finally confirmed to be a thing and we are aiming to bring the game to Xbox and Playstation within this year.

Wed like to thank you for staying with us and enjoying the game. We are reading your feedback and reports and considering them for our next release. Hopefully we can deliver more insights in the coming weeks.

Thats it for now - more will follow soon enough.

- Chasing Carrots

[ 2025-07-07 09:50:47 CET ] [Original Post]