- Century City's Winter Holiday Extravaganza! 🎁 - 22 December 2023
📯 Hear Ye, Hear Ye! Century City's Exclusive Multiplayer Winter Jubilee Beckons! Good tidings, cherished inhabitants of Century City! 🎄 Exclusive Festive Revelries: Gather 'round, ye merry players! The grand Winter Holidays Event is upon us, with its cheer and charm available exclusively in multiplayer mode! Join friends and fellow citizens in celebration as we unveil the wonders of the season. 🌟 Hallway Decked in Yuletide Splendor: Venture through the hallways, now lavishly adorned with Christmas decorations. Each garland, bauble, and string of lights has been meticulously placed to imbue your multiplayer experience with the warmth and joy of the holiday spirit. 🎁 A Christmas Tree for Thee, Delivered by Alfred!: What's this by the hearth? A magnificent Christmas tree, delivered just for you! Find this arboreal delight in the company of Alfred, ready to be decked with ornaments and…
- New update out now! - 23 November 2023
Hello, fellow citizens! We're excited to announce that a new update has landed in Century City, and it features a few improvements designed to enhance your gaming experience. Let's dive into what's new: 🛑 Pause & Play: Your in-game menu now doubles as a pause button in single-player mode. Need a quick break during intense matches? Just open the menu, and the world freezes in time, waiting for your triumphant return. 🔧 Loading Screen Liberation: We've squashed that pesky bug that trapped you in the loading screen limbo. Now, you'll glide smoothly into the main menu, ready for action. 📚 Bestiary Achievement Unlocked: We've updated the requirements for the bestiary achievement in single-player mode. You no longer need to have a Miss Rosebud to complete your Catalog of Junk and claim your well-deserved achievement. But wait, there's more! We've also fine-tuned a few other aspects: Single…
- Enjoy Century City at your own pace! - 3 November 2023
Hello, citizens! Our latest update brings a new feature: a difficulty selector for single-player mode, including a new “Normal” difficulty setting. The challenge you've come to know is still there, just now under the “Difficult” label. This rebalancing mainly tweaks the Others, specifically their spawn rates and levels. When you next jump into single-player, you'll be prompted to choose between “Difficult” or “Normal”. Your choice isn't set in stone; you can change it anytime in the settings menu. While we were under the hood, we polished up a few extra nuts and bolts: Elimination Quest XII now displays the correct weapon constraint to be completed; Resolved an issue where tickling the ivories on the piano halted interactions for all players in a match; Tackled most of the gremlins causing the “press any key” bug that kept some of you from progressing past the first screen. We're still…
- SINGLE PLAYER UPDATE: PATCH NOTES & SALE - 6 April 2023
Greetings Citizens! Have you ever dreamed of wandering in Century City without The Others trying to kill you? Well, now you can! We are happy to announce that we have added a brand-new Single Player Mode! You can now play the classic hardcore top-down action experience offered by Hell is Others without facing other players in your same game. To celebrate, Hell is Others will be 50% off from NOW until April 13th, 2023! And without further ado, here are the Single Player Update Patch Notes! In addition, here are some juicy news about rebalancing, Easter, and more! Singleplayer Dedicated loot distribution Dedicated waves configurations Dedicated Credit progression Toxicity and satiety bar modifies according to credit level Rebalance Device Wheel: devices can be selected with a separate wheel from the weapons wheel. They still need to be intentionally selected before they can be used. It is…
- Announcing the Apartment Contest Winners! - 5 April 2023
Greetings Citizens! Thank you, everyone, for participating in our Apartment Contest; we had a tough time deciding which of you had the most fabulous crib in Century City! The winners are: 🥁 🥇 cxl 🥈 krolya Keep your notifications on to be the first to know about our next community activities, and thank you again to everyone who participated. See you in Century City! https://store.steampowered.com/app/964440/Hell_is_Others/
- New Duo Design is now live! - 23 March 2023
Hello Citizens! In the recent HotFix, we told you about the new duo design: after listening to your feedback, we decided to modify some of its features, so that we could add something valuable to this mode! We want to talk a little bit more about this new introduction, since it is a heavily requested one by the community! First thing first: how does it work? As always, you have to invite a friend from the party menu and take to the streets together. From now on you can recognize your partner from a blue circle below its avatar, as you can see in the image below: At first, we tried to implement a more “diegetic” way to communicate this, but we thought that clarity is the most important thing during matches, so we landed on a quite clear blue circle! When the match starts, your partner spawns elsewhere just like in the old way, and you have to reunite with the Other to cooperate, fight, o…
- HotFix: blue circle - 22 March 2023
Hello Citizens! Today’s announcement will be very short, but we hope equally effective: we have fixed a problem with the blue circle. It was originally designed to highlight your party member, but instead, it appeared under some Other enemies in solo! Now you can go back to your brutal outings alone! Until next time, Citizens!
- HotFix: keybindings - 20 March 2023
Hello Citizens! Today we have a short but important announcement for you: we have fixed the problem of keybindings! From now on you can once again change the settings of the keys to your liking! We are working on other fixes (for example, the blue circle of the duo that also appears for solo players), but they will take a little more time. We decided to publish this little hotfix, but more updates are coming. Thank you for your patience and understanding. See you in the City, Citizens!
- Get your citizenship today: Hell is Others is 40% off for the Steam Spring Sale! - 16 March 2023
Greetings Citizens! We are happy to inform you that from March 16th until March 23rd, Hell is Others will be 40% off its original price! If you are feeling lonely during your hunts in Century City, this is the perfect time to tell them to join you and gain their citizenship now! https://store.steampowered.com/app/964440/?utm_source=steamnews&utm_campaign=springsale23
- The Apartment Contest starts today! - 16 March 2023
Hello Citizens! Have you ever wondered who has the coolest apartment in Century City? Well, the crown might be yours to take! We are glad to announce that, starting from today until March 24th, it will start our Apartment Contest! Show off your furniture in our Discord community to have a chance to win unique prizes made by the Hell is Others Dev Team itself! Check our Twitter post here to know more about the Apartment Contest and the ruling: https://twitter.com/HellisOthers_/status/1636396910805409794?s=20 https://store.steampowered.com/app/964440/?utm_source=event&utm_campaign=apartmentcontest&utm_medium=march2023
- HotFix 1.5.16 - 15 March 2023
Hello Citizens! Here we are with the latest HotFix Update for Hell is Others! Before looking at the other fixes, just a few words about one of the most important parts of the Update: the new duos design. You have pointed out several times the problem of the unreadable "companions" during your games. We decided to solve this by changing some of the rules related to duos: The Other partner has a blu area at its feet to differentiate it from enemies. We also make it possible to extract two players from the same lift if they are part of the same team. We’ll check your feedback to know if this new design matches your expectations! We’ve also worked on a bunch of bugs and problems that you have pointed out to us! Here’s the full list: Fixed a bug where players got blocked (so they cannot continue the story) closing the game right after talking with Isolde during Act II; Fixed a bug where play…
- Hell is Others: Keys, calibers and Other Things is out now! - 24 February 2023
Hello, Citizens! We are very proud to finally give you the greatest and biggest update in the history of Hell is Others: Let’s immediately dive into the specifics of all the new content that will flood the game! Other Thing So, first things first: without a doubt, one of the biggest news is the introduction of the Other Thing. It is a brand new enemy and is undoubtedly the toughest and most aggressive of all the opponents encountered in the City so far. We have devised some features to achieve this goal: Moves on the terrain, so differently from the Things, all the gadgets like mines or Molotov can be used against it; Uses the senses like the Others to actively hunt you instead of randomly wandering around; Triggers your Heartbeat like the Others when near; Can be killed to complete quests that require Others It has a search mode and a follow mode... You'll see what it means soon enough…
- CENTURY CITY TIMES #6 - 17 February 2023
Hello Citizens! Today we return with a rich news devlog! We have a lot to talk about: first, we’ll show you what we want to bring in the future of Hell is Others; secondly, we’ll tell you what happened on the game Discord server! Other Things Regarding the game, we’re introducing the Other Thing, which represents a new level of challenge for the game: we're trying to match the difficulty level of an encounter with another player. With this new enemy, we’re also allowing players that wants to focus on PVE to be able to complete the game without having to kill other players. We designed the Other Thing to be a great menace even for very skilled and veteran players. It is made in the image of the Others, and you’ll learn in time that it has a different set of skills compared to the Things that you can encounter in the game. We can make you imagine the direction we want to take with a small…
- Patch Notes 1.4.8 - 8 February 2023
Hello Citizens! Today we update you on some recent fixes we’ve been working on, which should improve your quality of life and make your experience more fluid! Let's dive in. We are aware that some people still get stuck in the 'Connection in Progress' step. We care a lot about this problem. For this reason, we added some additional checks and logs in order to collect more information in case of such an event. If the problem persists, send us a message on the Hell Is Others' Discord! We solved a problem that caused a series of chain accidents! In short, a certain way of saving data created stumbling blocks, but from now on: You'll not be stuck in the "tutorial loop"; Your hub changes remain even if you close the game immediately after; The game will save the action you perform even in case of a sudden game closure. That also applies to the objects you consume: fungi, pills, food, etc.; W…
- CENTURY CITY TIMES #5 - 30 January 2023
Hello Citizens! This January was one of the most eventful and most important months of our recent past! Some of the recent changes that have involved the game have taken a lot of work and energy, which we have to add to the daily commitment to balance, not to mention the creation and implementation of new content! To give you a rough idea, just know that in the last seven days, we had over 149.000 unique users, a peak of 3874 concurrent users, and over 2935 participants in the referral program! We are thrilled to welcome all these new Citizens to the City, and we want to thank the community members for helping us all these months! We also had our first Patron, the level which is recognized by a user who has invited 100 neighbors to enter the City: congratulations, Achilles! But let’s get into the patch we just released a couple of days ago: there is a lot to talk about! The most importa…
- The Blood Hunt has started! - 27 January 2023
Attention Citizens, Welcome to the Blood Hunt Event! Here's how to participate: - Log in at least 3 times during the event period to be eligible for rewards - Eliminate as many Things as possible - Kills are earned collectively by all Citizens The more kills, the better the trophy. Unlock new items for Adam's Apartment, and keep up with the global progress on all Hell is Others Social Media. https://twitter.com/HellisOthers_ https://www.instagram.com/hellisothersgame/ You have until **February 12th, 2023.** Good luck Citizens, and see you in Century City.
- HotFix 1.4.5 - 27 January 2023
Hello citizens! With this hotfix, we fixed some bugs and introduced QOL improvements. Also, We are aware of a problem causing players to be stuck in the "connection in progress" after log-in. You can try to fix it by verifying the game files on the Epic Games library! - Fixed bug preventing the player from completing the tutorial after handing over the golden object to Octave. - Fixed the primary interaction of ON lights after getting placed inside the hub, making the player interact with them twice in order to shut them off. - Fixed bot spawns that caused some performance losses under certain circumstances. - Improved the pocket user experience. - Fixed bug preventing the Catalogue of Junk from updating if the object was placed in the pocket
- It's your chance to get Hell is Others at 33% off! - 26 January 2023
Attention Citizens! We are excited to announce that Hell is Others will be having a discount of 33% off until Thursday, February 2nd, 2023, at 8AM PT / 5PM CET. This is the perfect opportunity to gift Hell is Others to your friends or family. Don't miss out on this deal! Rest up, gather your weapons and take the elevator down. We're waiting for you in Century City.
- Patch Notes 1.4.4 - 26 January 2023
Hello Citizens! With these new patch notes, we have made several new improvements to features as well as fixed some of the bugs found in the previous update. We would like to highlight two features that have been patiently awaited and requested by you, our community, that have now arrived! The first one is that attributes will no longer reset anymore after sleeping. Secondly, we have now split solos and duo queues, in order to ensure a fairer matchmaking. Read more for the full list of updates: Melee animation swoosh - Improved the animations for the melee weapon attacks. Satiety and Food Clash - Food only influences the Satiety bar. Fungi and Pills raise a new bar, called the Toxicity one. - Satiety bar is reset after dying or going to sleep. - Toxicity bar is reset only after dying. - The Movement Speed attribute has been removed. In its place, the new Search attribute has been introd…
- CENTURY CITY TIMES #4 - 20 January 2023
Hello Citizens! Welcome to the first devlog of the year! In this update, we will tell you about some changes we intend to make to the game, as well as some new ideas that we think can work well with what we have done so far! Without a doubt, the first thing we want to talk about is the additions for PVE. Trying to meet the requests of a part of the community while keeping the PVP as the core element of the game, we thought we’d offer an alternative for those passionate about the game’s story and the world we created. That’s why we decided to include some new content on the PVE front of the game, but do not worry: we will continue to work on the PVP side of Hell is Others. As proof of that, we will include a new type of enemy, designed both as a rewarding challenge on the PVE side and as a dynamic opponent for PVP. We will go into detail on this new content in the coming days: at the mom…
