The Survival Roguelite Halls of Torment will arrive on October 28 to PS5 and Xbox Series

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By Rita Ora

The players who want a dose of vampire survors mixed with Diablo (1996) should know that there is a game called Halls of Torment that offers exactly this. The title is available in Steam, and as announced by the Chasing Carrots Development team on October 28, versions for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series will be put up for sale. That same day an update and the additional content The Boglands will also arrive.

Halls of Torment es un roguelite style survival bullet heavena subgenre that tells us that it is the player who generates the hell of bullets or bullet hell to face waves of enemies. This is the same proposal as the popular vampire survors, but instead of being a minimalist it presents a retro style reminiscent of the role games of the late 90s (as a devil). Halls of Torment offers games for about 30 minutes and to start you just have to choose one of the heroes. From here the character evolves, increases his power and develops a strategy as he achieves skills and objects.

The update called Bardcore that will be available on October 28 will introduce El Bardo as a new character, six new skills, six artifacts endgamethree new music tracks, a system to level up manually and more than 20 new missions. This content will join the available in the base game, which includes 11 playable characters, 74 skills, 60 objects, more than 35 bosses, more than 70 monsters, more than 500 missions and more than 1,000 features to improve characters and skills.

Regarding The Boglands, it is the first additional content that Halls of Torment will receive since its launch in 2024 (after an early access period). Whoever is done with this complement will add a new area called the Cenagal where you have to make its way through a swamp in which there are insects, spirits, street trees and other dangers. «Here the enemy is not time, but survival,» says the development team. In addition, the squad of playable characters expands with The Crone, which invokes plants that entangle enemies and propagate rot, and The Alchemist, which launches imbued decks of elements with their respective effects of fire, ice, earth and lightning.

Among the content included in The Boglands we also find more than 50 missions, three new skills, a dozen objects designed to take advantage of the two new characters, six new artifacts to customize the game with modifiers and more features and blessings of whose mixture will come out new strategies ..