Help the minions of the underworld across bubbling pools of lava with rickety bridges and non-regulated constructions. Will you go for the easiest route, or test your skills and aim for the coveted skulls? Return to completed challenges to perfect your builds!

Hellgineers is a content packed game made in PICO-8 with hours of gameplay. Get max rank on all the challenges, or just relax and play around with the fun physics and quirky characters.

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Features

• Try your best at 40 challenges of increasing difficulty
• Enjoy easy to use building editor
• Use different materials ranging from roads to hydraulics
• Optimise your builds to get the highest rank on each level
• Record and share gifs of failure and success
• Find your flow to chiptune soundtrack and sound effects

How to play

Build a bridge (or something similar) that safely gets the minions of the underworld to the other side of a chasm . Increase the rank of your construction by staying within budget, or grabbing the tricky-to-get skulls. Different demons require different strategies to solve each challenge - so put your thinking cap on!

Use the mouse to select levels and click buttons.

• build - select a material and use the mouse to add segments to your construction
• move - hold X on the keyboard and use the mouse to move a node
• delete - right click segments to remove them
• look around - hold left mouse button down and move the mouse to pan
• change material - press Q to quickly swap between materials
• copy to clipboard - use the copy button after testing
• paste to editor - ctrl/cmd + V
• options - ENTER to mute music, set volume, etc

Credits

Design/Art/Code: Johan Peitz (@johanpeitz)  
Music/Sound: Vav (@VAVMUSICMAGIC)
Font: Somepx (Somepx)

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