| Hell Is Us | |
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| Developer(s) | Rogue Factor |
| Publisher(s) | Nacon |
| Director(s) | Jonathan Jacques-Belletete |
| Engine | Unreal Engine 5 |
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| Release | September 4, 2025 |
| Genre(s) | Action-adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Hell Is Us is an upcoming action-adventure video game developed by Rogue Factor and published by Nacon. It is set to be released for PlayStation 5, Windows and Xbox Series X/S on September 4, 2025.
Hell Is Us is an action-adventure video game played from a third-person perspective. In the game, the player assumes control of a soldier named Rémi, and fights against supernatural beings named "Hollow Walkers". [1] Players can combat these creatures using a variety of melee weapons such as swords, polearms and axes, with each having their own attack style and speed. Rémi is also equipped with a drone which can be used to distract hostile creatures. [2] Players need to manage both the health and stamina of Rémi. Stamina will gradually regenerate but health will not, though Rémi's maximum stamina at any given moment is limited by his current health level. Fighting in an exhausted state means that the player character attacks more weakly and is more vulnerable. [3]
Hadea was described by the team as a "semi-open world", and the game tasks players to gather clues to find Rémi's parents. [4] The game forgoes features commonly found in other games such as waypoints, quest logs and map markers. Players must listen to Rémi's conversations with non-playable characters in order to find out the locations of their objectives. [5]
A United Nations peacekeeper named Rémi goes absent without leave and ventures into the war-torn country of Hadea to find his parents, only to discover that the region is infested with supernatural beings following a mysterious event named the "Calamity". [6] [4]
The game is currently being developed by Rogue Factor, the studio behind Mordheim: City of the Damned . The project was led by Jonathan Jacques-Belletete, the art director for Deus Ex: Human Revolution and its sequel, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided . [7] According to Jacques-Belletête, the game was inspired by the 2018 film Annihilation , and the Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer. [5] The game adopted a minimalistic head-up display as the studio was influenced by games released in the 1990s and wanted to create an immersive experience in which players receive information in an "organic" way. [8] Jacques-Belletete compared the combat system to those commonly found in hack and slash games, one that is neither overly easy nor hard. [9]
Hell Is Us was first announced by publisher Nacon in April 2022, and was scheduled to be released in 2023. [10] The game resurfaced in September 2024 during Sony's State of Play livestream event, and is scheduled to be released on September 4, 2025 for PlayStation 5, Windows and Xbox Series X/S.