About This Game In Helltown, you play as a postman who has to deliver packages to the residents of a brand new residential development called Little Vale. However, when all hell breaks loose, you'll have to run away and hide from insidious monsters while trying to unravel the truth behind it all. In order to do so, talk to the townspeople and explore the game's many locations. Will you be able to escape, or will you just be another lost soul trapped in... Helltown?FEATURESLots of scary monstersVarious spooky locationsA mysterious story to unravel4 very different endingsDOES NOT INCLUDEGeneric Unity/Unreal Store assetsCheap jumpscaresLaughable grammar 7aa9394dea Title: HelltownGenre: Adventure, IndieDeveloper:WildArtsPublisher:WildArtsRelease Date: 27 Sep, 2017 Helltown Download 1gb Do you love horror that doesn't rely on Cheap Jumpscares?Did you love playing Spooky's Jumpscare Mansion?Do you love games with mystery?Then you should like this game :PHere's a playthrough Part 1 of my Let's Play I'm so far doing with the game.https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PgHqGynRxGY. At the start of this, there was no way this would be a negative review. This game has a very interesting story and mood going for it. Unfortunately all the enjoyment you get out of it is really ruined by the very very poorly tuned enemies that are over-aggressive and not balanced right. Combine that with procedural generation in places, and you have yourself 30+ minutes of trying to get through the damn church labyrnth (which is not big mind you) and becoming endlessly frustrated. What does turning off the light even do?? We wouldn't have figured out the 'hiding' mechanic if it wasn't for the walkthrough.Anyways, this is worth a glance if you're interested in this vibe, but go in anticipating some bad gameplay choices.. All I can say is 'WOW'. This game completely understands and utilizes what made 90s horror games so nerve-racking. From the very beginning I was expecting jumpscares to be at the forefront of this title, given the contrast between settings in the screenshots, but I couldn't have been more wrong. It fully embraces its aesthetic and manipulates it in just the right way to give you a feeling of unease that gradually increases as you delve deeper into what's going on with this town. I felt a genuine dread with every level, and couldn't wait to see what awaited me as I continued onward. I don't want to spoil anything, so I'll just end with this: if you've ever been creeped out by a game that came out during the mid-90s, this will absolutely recapture whatever it is you felt. Buy this game.Bravo to the developers. This was fantastic.. Every bit of its wonderful uniqueness is best experienced through a youtube let's play.Unless uniqueness is truly of paramount importnance to your enjoyment of a game, don't buy this. I desperatately tried to enjoy it and despite a very intriguing and promising tone and intro, I was left with nothing but an extremely frustrating trial-and-error.I have an immense enjoyment of old-fashioned difficulty. This is not that,I spent an hour trying to navigate samey labrynths only to be two-shot staggered and killed by enemies whose level design. stealth, and immense agro range made them nigh-unknowable.This is a wonderful game that refuses to be played. If you have money, time, and a lot of patience to spare, by all means play this: it really is a breath of fresh air. And if that's for you then great! You might actually really like this game! Unfortunately for the rest of us it's more of a breath of fresh fart.. Short, neat game. Not a masterpiece, but it has some nice aesthetics and cool setpieces. You can get your first ending in less than two hours, but to find the others you'll probably need to use a guide (or some random bad LPer like I did since there AREN'T any guides).. Helltown is an indie gem. It's not without faults, but it keeps the spirit of creative indie games alive, and delivers a really unexpected experience. Sadly, Helltown is very very short.It starts out great, you are introduced to a town, which just seems a little too nice. There are people chatting about some shady guy, there is a mysterious cabin, some runes, a weird posts. This builds tension really well. It's clear something bad is about to happen, and well... that's exactly what happens. Unfortunately, the game promises too much and doesn't deliver.Spoilers below.Monsters appear, creepy stuff is everywhere, the town becomes a terrifying nightmare.The atmosphere and sound design is amazing. The surreal feeling of the town is quite terrifying, Sadly, the enemies are just too goofy, and since you can see them in light, they simply aren't scary. The same goes for their terrible animations, which feel like someone's first time animating with Blender.Unfortunately, while horror does happen, the story deflates. The mystery is shattered, because the story is too simple. There is no interesting element or surprising revelations or twisted realisations. There is no theme or message, or at least not one I could find. However the word "unexpected" is warranted, because the apparent joke ending is surprisingly the most important ending, that actually explains the plot, sucking even more mystery out of the already shallow narrative.I wish there was a little more effort put into the story, because the game started so strong and interesting. I though, we would get to know the people or uncover their mystery, like in some Lovecraftian tale. I was expecting something like Pathologic, but the game ended too soon.. The game was a delight. The developers were very smart in creating a world that is the perfect size, thus avoiding large empty areas, and filling every nook with interesting, and disturbing, discoveries. The game also has a few enjoyable game mechanics that allow for strategy when facing the terrors of helltown that set it above many walking-sim style horror games. The game calls for multiple playthroughs, but is still a bit short, even so i would highly recomend giving it a try.. SPOILER ALERT!Helltown is a really solid horror game with some problems.Pros: - subtlety- nice retro graphics- has a weird but unsettling atmosphere- multiple endingsBut despite these good things there are some problems with this game.The biggest Problem in my opinion is that the shift in the game happens much too fast.The timespan you have to get to know the people and the town itself is much too short.Also the game gets really repetitive after the shift happens, as pretty much the entire game consists of being chased by monsters that can kill you far to easily since you have nowhere to hide (when compared to games like Amnesia or SOMA where this isn't that much of a problem since there are plenty of places to hide from monsters, which by the way adds some extra tension since you aren't sure if you are safe in your hiding place).I think the beginning of the game has this really unsettling Blue Velvet like atmosphere, since the town and it's inhabitants seem too perfect to be true. The nightmare sequence that happens during the first night is pretty much the scariest thing in the entire game (it really reminds me of the dream sequences in Twin Peaks), and I think there should be some more of those. Also the key chase that happens midway during the game should be less frustrating since it's pretty much trial and error until you find the keys and actually make it to the exit. This is a shame since the scene afterwards where you want to leave town is one of the most atmospheric moments of the game. The sequence where you are in the town which seems to be in hell is good as it is. The church sequence on the contrary is probably the most frustrating part of the game. This just isn't fun or scary at all. The church is just a maze full of enemies that chase you down to no end.I think what you could do to make the game better is:- Make the beginning longer with more days where you just explore the town as it gradually gets weirder and weirder.- Add some more dream sequences as they are really great.- Make the key hunt less frustrating (maybe by adding some hiding spots)- Let the sequence where you have to search the seals as it is since the chases fit perfectly for this part of the game- Give the church part an overhaul to make it less frustrating and more interesting (less chases, more puzzles)But all in all this is a solid game, aside the mentioned cons I really liked the game.
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Updated: Mar 11, 2020
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