- HoT 1.0 | Final Stage & End Game - 24 September 2024
Hello Adventurers! If you have been following the game, waiting for the 1.0 version - we have great news! Halls of Torment 1.0 is now available! (News) Get Halls of Torment now! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2218750/Halls_of_Torment/ The prelude is not up-to-date to the 1.0 version right now, but there haven't been that many changes affecting the Prelude. To make sure the main game works and we can quickly fix all issues, the prelude will be updated to the same version next week. Stay Fresh - Chasing Carrots
- HoT Language Update: 2024-06-14 - 14 June 2024
Guten Tag, Abenteurer! That was German, just one of the newly added languages. From this day onwards Halls of Torment will be available in these languages: Chinese (Simplified), Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal & Brazilian), Russian, Spanish (Spain & Latin America), Ukrainian The language is selected automatically based on your Steam settings, but you can also change it with the newly added language selection in the game. Additionally we’ve updated the Prelude to reflect the current status of the main game. After many smaller patches the Prelude and main game had some bigger differences in game feel, balancing and QoL features. For the latest full update information head over to the main game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2218750/Halls_of_Torment/ Stay Fresh 🥕 Chasing Carrots
- Halls of Torment is in Early Access NOW! - 24 May 2023
Hello Adventurers! We’re proud to announce that Halls of Torment is now available on Steam Early Access! Choose one of (currently!) seven unlockable characters and descend into the dark depths where demonic horrors lurk. Slay hordes of monsters, unlock new abilities, and find new equipment that will help you overcome the challenges further down below. Important Information for PRELUDE Players If you’ve played the PRELUDE version of Halls of Torment and want your progress to carry over to the full version of the game there are a few prerequisites: On the machine you want to continue with your PRELUDE progress, the PRELUDE save file must be locally available. Normally this should be the case, if you haven’t switched to another device or cleared your system for some reason. If you are on a new machine since playing the PRELUDE, you can ensure that your progress is copied by installing the…
- HoT EA Content Preview (2023-05-24) - 16 May 2023
Hello Adventurers! In just one week, Halls of Torment will enter Early Access! Later today we’ll stream a bit of gameplay, answer any of your questions, and respond to your feedback. Join us on Twitch (17:30 CEST / GMT+2) - If you can’t join, don’t worry, the VOD will be available later on Twitch and Youtube. If you’d prefer to see more professional video content, also don’t worry, we’ll be sending out the first keys to content creators within the next 48 hours! For that we are preparing an update of Halls of Torment (not the PRELUDE) which is a preview of the Early Access version. However, there might still be rough edges, since we’re in the midst of finalizing and polishing the game for the EA release. If you are a content creator and would like to request a key, please contact us via [email protected] or via keymailer EA Content Overview FORGOTTEN VIADUCT A new stage with new en…
- Halls of Torment is launching into EA on 24th May! - 10 May 2023
Hello Adventurers! We’re happy to announce that Halls or Torment will launch into Early Access on 24th May with a price tag of $4.99 | €4.99! During the next couple of days you might see a bit more activity on our part again. Prior to the release we’ll be streaming the game on Twitch on Tuesday, 16th May. We’d love to see you join us over here: https://www.twitch.tv/chasingcarrots Wishlist now! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2218750/Halls_of_Torment/ If you’re a streamer, content creator, or from the press, we’re going to start sending out keys for you on 17th May. Contact us either via email [email protected] or via keymailer. To all our players out there: Thank you for your overwhelming support! 94% of the 763 reviews have been positive! Over 45 000 of you have tried the PRELUDE and given us valuable feedback, bug reports, and suggestions. We’re thrilled to see the success Ha…
- HoT Fix 2023-05-02 - 2 May 2023
Hello Adventurers, Over the weekend there were two issues found with the game that we want to address. 1.) The third map was available, but without any content, so we locked it. 2.) The ability if projectiles can be blocked was reversed for the player and enemies. Stay Fresh - Chasing Carrots
- HoT Update 2023-04-27 - 27 April 2023
Hello Adventurers! Today we are releasing just a small patch for the PRELUDE. We are still in the middle of getting ready for Early Access. But we have some additional information for you regarding Early Access today. We’ve already mentioned a couple of things about this during our DevStream on Tuesday. If you’ve missed it you can watch it here on YouTube The Early Access will start with 7 characters, 11 abilities and 3 stages. We will expand upon abilities giving you the possibility to upgrade or evolve them, depending on how you want to call it. Each ability upgrade should be roughly as powerful as the initial ability itself. Ability upgrades can be chosen instead of a new ability when for example picking up the Scroll of Mastery. But our main focus has been on playable characters. The 4 additional characters for the Early Access will be: Cleric (Debuffs & Regeneration) Warlock (Summo…
- Developer Stream 2023-04-25 - 19 April 2023
Hello everyone, We are making good progress towards the EA. We’d like to show you the most recent progress and talk about it in our next dev stream. If you can’t join us live, don’t worry - you’ll be able to watch VODs on Twitch or YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJQDnWBP6oKKQt56riGw_9T9gNQcxVeGT Also, for later next week we intend to release a Patch for the PRELUDE with some additional QoL items and Bug Fixes. Some of this will be shown during the stream. Stream Date: 25th April 2023 Stream Start: 17:00 CEST | 15:00 UTC | 08:00 am PST Link: https://www.twitch.tv/chasingcarrots We hope to see you there! - Chasing Carrots
- HoT Update 2023-04-06 - 6 April 2023
Hello Adventurers! We are doing good progress on the Early Access version. We are still aiming for a release in Q2 this year. However, we very much prefer to make a solid game instead of pushing a hasty release. We’d also like to thank everyone for joining our latest dev stream and hanging out with us while talking about Halls of Torment. The next stream will be announced a bit earlier than the last one, promised! If you missed it, you can watch it on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLqME7PbSGc In this update, we’re focusing mainly on bug fixes, polish, and QoL features. There are still a couple of known issues on our list which we will tackle in future updates. Your feedback helps us to determine the highest priorities when it comes to improving the game experience. We will keep on reading through forums and our discord channel and keep in touch with you. Change Log 2023-04-06…
- Developer Stream 2023-03-30 - 29 March 2023
Hello everyone, First, we’d like to thank you for all of your feedback and reports! When we launched the PRELUDE, we didn’t expect it to become so well received. This week we don’t have an update for the PRELUDE version. Instead we’re going to be live on stream playing the game and talking about future steps and changes. We invite you to join us for one or two cozy hours of Halls of Torment talk and play. Ask us any questions and celebrate the progress of the game with us! Stream Date: 30th March 2023 Stream Start: 18:00 CEST | 16:00 UTC | 09:00 am PST Link: https://www.twitch.tv/chasingcarrots We hope to see you there! - Chasing Carrots
- Halls of Torment is classic Diablo meets Vampire Survivors - 27 March 2023
Ah hell, going to say goodbye to any free time I had for the next month. Halls of Torment has sucked me right in being a blend of retro Diablo and Vampire Survivors. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/03/halls-of-torment-is-retro-diablo-meets-vampire-survivors
- HoT Update 2023-03-23 - 23 March 2023
Hello Adventurers! Greetings from the team! We’d like to thank you once more for your support. We reached over 15 000 Wishlist entries for the Early Access, still rising. There are over 100 discussions in the Forum going on, a wiki is getting started, a subreddit has been created and we have great activity on the Discord Server. Also a huge thanks to all content creators and streamers for sharing their joy about the game. We are reading and watching through as much feedback and impressions as we can. Development is moving forward quickly and it’s time for another patch! Change Log 2023-03-23 FEATURES The Flamedancer, first boss of Ember Grounds, got two new attack patterns. PERFORMANCE Improved performance of monsters Improved player upgrade performance Improved Abilities performance Improved of XP Gem performance STABILITY ISSUES Sometimes on pickup the game would crash. Fixed a freeze…
- HoT Update 2023-03-15 - 15 March 2023
Hello Adventurers! Thank you for your support! We had an awesome first week with the PRELUDE and we are glad that you’ve found enjoyment in the Halls of Torment. We’ve read through your feedback and issue reports. Today’s update will mainly address the problems we could fix until now and smaller changes to the game. Change Log 2023-03-15 FEATURES Full gamepad support has been added and a steam default configuration has been set. If you have any input problems, please reset the gamepad to default settings for the game. BALANCING XP distribution has been modified among monsters, giving early monsters more XP comparatively. Completed quests now only give 0.5% additional XP instead of 1%. Astronomer’s Orbs now have a smaller starting distance. Range modifier affects Astronomer’s Orbs less. Size modifier of Astronomer’s Orbs has been reduced. Second orbit of Astronomer's Orbs now spawns clos…
- PRELUDE available Now! - 9 March 2023
Hello Adventurers! The PRELUDE to Halls of Torment has been released and we invite everyone to play! This is a stand-alone Demo version of Halls of Torment and can be played for free. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2316660/Halls_of_Torment_Prelude/ We hope you’ll join us on our adventure making the game by giving it a try and if possible leave some feedback along the way. The PRELUDE savegame will be fully compatible with the main version of the game and can be played on Windows and any Linux device, including the Steam Deck. Since the development of the game is in full swing, many parts of the game are still not fully fleshed out, yet. This includes bits that you can find in the PRELUDE. While development continues, we intend to update the demo version with bug fixes, QoL updates, and other changes that affect the content including the demo. What can you play in the Demo? 3 Charact…
- Update 2023-03-03 - 3 March 2023
Hello Adventurers! Unfortunately, we didn’t have update notes on last week’s update. But we didn’t have many visible changes either. This week we have some more exciting changes that play big parts in the preparation for the PRELUDE version. An important note: Today’s update will reset your progress and remove the Shield Maiden character for now. Hopefully, we won’t need another save game reset, since we’ve sorted out the meta progression for the PRELUDE and don’t want to entirely redo it again. Change Log 2023-03-03 FEATURES Gamepad support! It’s almost complete and all essential menus should be usable. Auto-aim setting for the main attack A powerup item that will collect all XP on the current stage New unlockable traits for each ability New boss: “FlameDancer” in Ember Grounds New enemy: exploding imps BALANCING Unlocking the Wellkeeper will now add start items to the chest Torment ra…
