Freebie Info - Hellpoint [FINISHED]

[Chimpzy]

Today, for you:

Hellpoint

Hellpoint will be free on GOG until June 16th. To nab it, simply go to gog.com (link provided above), scroll to down a little for the giveaway banner, and click that big green button to claim it. It should show up in your library almost immediately. I believe you also need to be subscribed to GOG's newsletter.

Spoiler: game description

Hellpoint is a dark and challenging action RPG set in a heavily atmospheric sci-fi universe where the line between science and occultism is blurred. Once a pinnacle of human achievement, the Irid Novo space station has fallen. Its ruins are now overrun by cruel interdimensional entities acting as puppets of the malevolent Cosmic Gods. You have been created by the Author, organically printed on Irid Novo and sent on a mission to find out the unholy series of events that led to the catastrophic incident known as the Merge.

• Irid Novo is a massive interconnected world full of mysteries, hidden passages and secrets within secrets - all for you to explore in any order you like. More dread and shivers awaits you as you travel deeper into the darkest corner of this forsaken colony.
• Dozens of melee and ranged weapons and armor pieces to suit your playstyle. Every weapon has unique special abilities that unlock the more you fight with them.
• A fascinating new sci fi universe reminiscent of classic sci-fi movies, set in the aftermath of a massive quantum cataclysm and complete with a deep lore and goosebump inducing soundtrack.
• The space station orbits in real time around an ominous black hole that triggers various dynamic events such as boss appearances, horde assaults as well as modified enemy stats and positions.
• If you are struggling, ask a friend to press Start to join in a couch coop session, or call for assistance online. The entire game can be completed uninterrupted in coop. The loot is shared, and the experience of local player two is saved and not watered down.

Have a look if interested, and enjoy.

 

[Dalisclock]

I haven't played it. It looks like Dark Souls meets Event Horizon. Anybody have any firsthand experience with this?

I mean, I'm gonna snag it because FREE and I'm already getting the newletter but honestly never heard much about this. It came and went without making much impression.

 

[meiam]

I haven't played it. It looks like Dark Souls meets Event Horizon. Anybody have any firsthand experience with this?

I mean, I'm gonna snag it because FREE and I'm already getting the newletter but honestly never heard much about this. It came and went without making much impression.

Yes on the dark soul, its a pretty shameless copy of the basic design, about the only aspect that's somewhat different is that weapon level up and gain new passive and active ability. Somewhat on the event horizon, same basic concept (space station get close to some sort of hellscape) but in it you play as someone whose role is just to figure out what happened exactly, think more like what someone who stumble onto the ship in event horizon 6 months later would experience.

It's a decent dark soul clone, exploration is its strongest point with a lot of nook and cranny to explore and find secret. Combat wise it was okay but quite a bit easier than most soul like game and pretty easy to break (one of the starting spell shoot three projectile and using it in close range kinda break the game). Story wise it tried to do the whole cryptic aspect but didn't quite nail the world building aspect.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

I was interested in this game when it came out, but it had pretty mixed reviews and I wasn't super impressed with the aesthetics and had other things to play. Definitely going to grab it and give it a try for free though.