A downloadable game for Windows and Linux

Hellbent is a top-down turn-based tactics game. The goal of the game is to progress through increasingly difficult encounters while leveling and gearing up your party with randomly dropping weapons and abilities.

Turn-based Combat on a Grid


Exploration in a dungeon overworld

Overworld

Character building



Gameplay features:

  • Engage in challenging turn-based combat that mixes RPG mechanics with squad-based tactics gameplay.
  • Progress through an increasingly difficult dungeon while gearing your squad up with over 300 different abilities and weapons. Each run of the game will turn out a little different.
  • A large number of different enemy types that utilize these weapons and abilities against you in horrible, horrible ways.

Helpful tips:

  • You can hover over just about all the attributes and gear in your character development screen (opened by I or C) to see how they work and how they influence the game.
  • Sometimes, you'll have no more viable actions, so pass the turn by pressing the Pass Turn button or by pressing Space.
  • You can enable AI control with a button to let AI control your characters for you. I added this feature mostly for debugging, but decided to leave it for the player to use since it's kind of fun.

Notes:

If you're wondering why the game wants to connect to the internet, that's Unity's analytics wanting to phone home. The game has no online component right now so you can block the game on your firewall if you want to.

The game's development is still in progress, so you might still find some developer oversights and bugs. Also, I'm using placeholder sounds right now, so you might want to turn the audio down and putting on some music of your own.


If you have any questions about the game, you can send me a message to my Discord account HellbentDev#0735. I'll try to be around to answer.

This game is no longer under development. Instead, a new project called Hellsector is under development, which uses this game as a base for a lot of its mechanics. It will be linked to here when it is playable.

My new game dev discord is M61Dev#8944.

StatusIn development
PlatformsWindows, Linux
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
AuthorM61Dev
GenreRole Playing
Tags2D, Loot, Roguelite, Singleplayer, Tactical RPG, Turn-Based Combat
Average sessionAbout an hour

Download

Download
hellbent-linux-not-sure-if-works.zip 61 MB
Version 2 Dec 31, 2019
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hellbent-win64-experimental.zip 28 MB
Version 11 Dec 31, 2019

Development log

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I did something I never do and made an account to tell you that this game is literally everything I've always been looking for in a tbs game for like years. I'm a writer, it's probably a little early for anything like that, but if you'd like any help in that regard, let me know.

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Hi, I only noticed your post now since I hadn't been reading my itch page. I'm glad you like the concept for the game. I'm working on a new update that includes a lot of new stuff so it will take a while until I get it out. 


This is kind of a pet project with a fictional setting that I've been developing myself, so I'd be hesitant to bring anyone else on board right now. I'm only now getting into defining some kind of tone for the writing in the game. I would appreciate feedback on the update when it comes out.