This is a complete guide to the locations and effects of every single Glyph in Hell Is Us.

Ecstasy Lymbic Sphere

Grief Lymbic Sphere

Neutral Lymbic Sphere

Rage Lymbic Sphere

Terror Lymbic Sphere

Finding five Glyphs of any tier or variant from each Lymbic Sphere will unlock the trophy/achievement “Emotional Damage”. However, all 25 unique Glyphs of any tier or variant, are required for the trophy/achievement “Emotional Warfare”.

Those are all 75 Glyphs that you can find and slot into your weapons in Hell Is Us.

In an episode of the Friends Per Second podcast, Jacques-Belletête spoke about how the release impacted several other games in the same time frame, calling Hollow Knight: Silksong as the Grand Theft Auto 6 of indie games.

“When you know you’re that big, I think a shadow drop is a bit like… wow,” said Jacques-Belletête.

“As the ‘GTA 6 of indie’… to shadow drop something like this is a little callous,” he continued. Despite this, however, he also noted that there were “emails and texts and messages back and forth between a lot of people, between us and our publisher — it was a real thing — we decided to keep the date, and I’m happy that we did.”

Rogue Factor’s decision to stick to its release date for Hell is Us came down to the studio being bigger than the typical indie developer, and having the support of a publisher like Nacon. This, according to Jacques-Belletête, gave the studio the confidence that it would be able to weather the storm of Hollow Knight: Silksong’s release.

“We’re still much bigger than some of the smaller ones who would have gotten a lot more affected and who decided to change their dates — changing the date of Hell is Us would have been a pretty big endeavour,” he explained.

“The real pain in the ass is that you have to refund your pre-orders when you do that, right? That’s the real, ‘How you gonna do this?’ — now you need to rebuild them. We didn’t say, ‘Oh my god, we have to do it, but we can’t because of that.’ We were like, ‘No, I think we can get through the storm’.”

Jacques-Belletête doesn’t quite put all the blame on Hollow Knight: Silksong, since September onwards tends to be a pretty busy time of the year for video game releases. He also noted that Bloober Team’s Cronos: The New Dawn also came out at around the same time.

“Honestly, it’s not just Silksong, there was Cronos, it was a busy time,” he admitted. “That’s the thing nowadays, honestly — getting a window where you’re pretty much alone is almost impossible. 15 years ago, the mid-end of the summer was always a dead period. But there’s no such thing anymore. It’s just constant madness.”

Hell is Us, Cronos: The New Dawn, and Hollow Knight: Silksong all came out at around the same time. Hell is Us and Cronos: The New Dawn are both available on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. Hollow Knight: Silksong, on the other hand, is available on a wider assortment of platforms – PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch and the Switch 2. All three titles have also been critically-acclaimed.

This Hell Is Us guide is a definitive listing of every single Relic to be found and their requirements.

Passive Relics

Aarlon’s Last Stand

Defy the hand of fate, becoming immune to control effects when Exhausted.

Upon completion of “The Hermit” Mystery in Acasa Marshes.

Cyrene’s Requiem

Focus on the enemy’s vital points, increasing the Lymbic Energy gained per strike.

Rewarded for closing a Timeloop in Auriga Museum.

Mark of the Betrayed

Retaliate with tremendous fury, increasing damage dealt after parrying.

Upon opening the vault in the Watcher’s Nest at Vyssa Hills.

The Blood Queen’s Phalange

Grow bolder in your victories, increasing damage dealt for each enemy vanquished.

Rewarded for closing the Timeloop in Vyssa Hills.

The Bloodseeker

Revel in victory over your foe, restoring Health and Lymbic Energy.

Upon completion of “The Protector” Mystery in Acasa Marshes.

The Crucible of Fire

A reckless rage grips you, increasing melee damage dealt and taken.

Upon completion of the “Enlightenment” Mystery in Acasa Marshes.

The Dream Aculeus

Carefully prepare your first strike, increasing melee damage against enemies at full Health

Rewarded for closing the Timeloop in Arcas Spire.

The Entropic Enigma

Attune your weapons’ resonance, increasing their experience gained.

Rewarded for closing the Timeloop in Talju.

The Eternal Sands

Weather the shifting sands, reducing Lymbic Energy costs.

Rewarded for closing the Timeloop in Marastan.

The Heart of Aria

Feel life’s heartbeat, greatly enhancing the Healing Pulse ability.

Rewarded for closing the Timeloop at Pathem Abbey in Acasa Marshes.

The Omen of Oblivion

A sense of finality seizes you, increasing the damage and power of Combo Capper attacks.

Rewarded for closing the Timeloop in Senedra.

The Panoptic Eudemon

Accept your fickle destiny, periodically negating one strike from the enemy.

Upon completion of the “Safekeeping” Mystery at Pathem Abbey in Acasa Marshes.

The Relentless Assault

Focus on your martial form, restoring Health for each landed Combo Capper.

Rewarded for completion of the “Waylaid” Good Deed.

The Unbound Delusion

Unfetter your mind, increasing Lymbic Energy but reducing damage.

Upon opening the vault in Vyssa Hills. 

Visage of the Defier

Embrace your inner demon, increasing melee damage but reducing Lymbic Energy.

Upon completion of the “Family First” Mystery in Jeljin.

Active Relics

Aster’s Band of Domination

Subjugate the enemy, stunning all nearby.

Upon opening the vault in the Lymbic Forge at Lake Cynon.

Blessed Hand of Sethyris

Your weapons are guided by Sethyris, increasing the damage of regular attacks.

Rewarded for closing a Timeloop in Auriga Museum.

Call of the Griffon

Find yourself replete with boundless vigor, greatly increasing Stamina regeneration.

Rewarded for completion of the “Land Of Milk And Honey” Good Deed.

Chalice of Everflowing Turmoil

Siphon an enemy’s Lymbic Energy to refill your own.

Within the vault under the Jeljin Digsite.

Heart of the Griffon

Fully restores your Health, Stamina and Lymbic Energy

Open the vault in Acasa Marshes.

Knell of Ebbing Ecstasy

Banish a manifestation of Ecstasy from whence it came.

Rewarded for completion of the “A Light In The Dark” Good Deed.

Knell of Fading Terror

Banish a manifestation of Terror from whence it came.

Rewarded for completion of the “Depths Of Hell” Good Deed.

Knell of Receding Rage

Banish a manifestation of Rage from whence it came.

Rewarded for closing the Timeloop in Jeljin Cemetery.

Knell of Waning Grief

Banish a manifestation of Grief from whence it came.

Rewarded for closing the Timeloop at Francis’ Church in Vyssa Hills..

Kolig’s Providence

You are watched over from on high, becoming impervious to harm.

Rewarded for closing the Timeloop at Lymbic Forge in Lake Cynon.

Mark of the Griffon

Find your Health increased well beyond natural measure.

DLC exclusive to the Deluxe Edition of the game.

Read the document in your inventory, then collect another document and the APC key from a corpse. Inside the APC itself will be a locker with a keycode panel, and the correct combination is printed in two parts on each document.

Memoria of the Phol

Your weapons resonate with the frequencies of past battles, increasing their experience gained.

Within the vault at Lake Cynon.

Orison of Valour

Become unfettered by the exertion of combat, removing Stamina costs for all actions.

Open the vault in Marastan.

The Benediction of Palom

Become possessed of singular talent, removing Lymbic Energy costs for all actions.

Rewarded for completion of “Mementos” Good Deed.

Wisdom of the Griffon

Find yourself awash in potential, passively restoring Lymbic Energy.

Rewarded for closing the Timeloop in the Temple of the Fallen.

Finding the 29 non-exclusive Relics will unlock the trophy/achievement “Antiquarian”.

Those are all 30 of the Relics, both Active and Passive, to be found in Hell Is Us.

This guide is a complete listing of all ten Baseball Caps and how to get them in Hell Is Us.

Cap – Ecstasy

Wear this to dominate your deepest desires.

Upon completion of the Suspicious Activity Mystery, inside the blue vehicle in the parking area of the Lethe National Library.

Cap – Gilded

So much for avoiding attention. You are sure to turn heads with this.

Lying atop a table in the Eye of God at Lake Cynon, near the Timeloop.

Cap – Grief

Wear this to silence your sorrow.

Search the corpse atop the scaffolding, inside the caves in Vyssa Hills.

Cap – Palomist

We are bound by the strength of our traditions. In unity we are guided by a higher power.

Ascend the ladder into the attic of the barn in Talju, to find it there.

Cap – Quebec

“Je me souviens!”

(I remember!”)

Atop the scaffolding during the Separated Good Deed in Jeljin.

Cap – Rage

Wear this to restrain your rage.

Search under the staircase just left of the entrance into the Lethe Ministry of Cultural Primacy.

Cap – Sabinian

We are a defiant beacon of reform, where conviction burns brighter than oppression. The fight for justice never fades.

Use Keys – Jova Office found on a drunken soldier in Jova, Acasa Marshes to unlock the door to the Captain’s Office in the same location.

Cap – Terror

Wear this to face your fears.

Use Keys – Algae found in the reservoir at Lake Cynon to unlock a chest in Samo’s General Store.

Cap – Veteran

I’ve seen it all before. Same shit, different day.

Lying on a rock in Lake Cynon.

Cap – Worn

My trusty cap. Well-used, but has served me well. The closest thing I have to a home right now.

The default Hat available in the beginning.

Those are the locations for all ten Hats in Hell Is Us.

This guide for Hell Is Us is a definitive listing of all 8 types of Drone Modules, in both Base and Elite variants, for a total of sixteen. Acquiring just eight distinct Drone Modules, one of either variant, will earn you the trophy/achievement “Tech Savvy”.

Death From Above (Base)

Unit lifts the user to a dominant altitude that can be leveraged into an aerial assault

Search the body in the general vicinity of Agatha’s corpse near the Timeloop in Vyssa Hills

Death From Above (Elite)

In Marastan en route to the camp, bear left on the path toward the structures. Search the crate near the rusty shed.

Behind the house with a white pickup truck outside and a black hatchback inside a fenced-off garage, far southwest of the starting point.

Distract (Base)

Unit emits amplified Lymbic Resonances, rapidly oscillating between emotional signatures, overwhelming the faculties of targeted Lymbic Entity and incapacitating it in the process.

Default module along with the drone in Senedra Forest..

Distract (Elite)

Upon completion of the Lax Security Mystery in Auriga Museum.

Entropic Field (Base)

Unit emits a resonant wave of high-frequency Lymbic particles, capable of shattering proximate Lymbic projectiles.

Search the passenger seat’s hidden under-compartment in the APC.

Entropic Field (Elite)

Search the corpse lying in the open at the Lethe National Library.

Forward Charge (Base)

Unit propels the user towards a target, resulting in high-velocity impact force to all Lymbic Entities in its trajectory.

Search a corpse lying between two stone carvings in the Acasa Marshes.

Forward Charge (Elite)

Search another corpse lying on the street between two minibuses at the school located in Talju.

Rearguard (Base)

Unit enters a state of high alert, releasing a high-voltage discharge to stagger Lymbic Entities approaching the user.

Collected from a corpse upon completion of the Lymbic Door Mystery in Senedra.

Rearguard (Elite)

Search the body in the ground floor offices of the Ministry of Cultural Primacy at Lethe. Descend through a hole in the floor of the upper level to access this area.

Shockwave (Base)

Unit emits a blast of low-frequency Lymbic Resonance, capable of destabilizing multiple proximate Lymbic Entities.

Search a corpse discovered in the cave network at Jeljin.

Shockwave (Elite)

Collected from a tent upon completion of the Observation Outpost 08 Mystery in Acasa Marshes.

Surge Step (Base)

Unit attaches to the user’s back while deploying its propellers for maximum propulsion, assisting with accelerated tactical evasive maneuvers.

Search a corpse lying near Vitalis in Vyssa Hills.

Surge Step (Elite)

Search the B3 Drone Lab in the Drone Workshop at Auriga Museum.

Whirlwind (Base)

Unit spins the user. An extended weapon will cause extensive damage to proximate Lymbic Entities.

Search the body right at the start of the tunnel in Acasa Marshes.

Whirlwind (Elite)

Located in a room on the B1 Training Room level in Auriga Museum.

Those are all sixteen variants of the Drone Modules and their locations in Hell Is Us.

Hell is Us unfolds in Hadea, a fictional country divided by war between the Palomists and Sabinians, where a mysterious Calamity has also broken out. Rémi infiltrates amid all this, battling Hollow Walkers while searching for his parents, but eventually, he’s embroiled in something much bigger.

Of course, he’ll need to figure things out on his own, since Hell is Us forsakes hand-holding or guidance of any kind. Instead, players must investigate the environment, speak to NPCs, and piece together clues to advance. Then there are the dungeons, which are full of dangerous threats and puzzles to solve. Check out our review for details on how it all comes together.

Hell is Us, Rogue Factor’s latest title that’s part Souls-like, mostly action-adventure, maintains it for the most part. It’s been hyping the lack of hand-holding for months, dropping players in a fictional country in the middle of a civil war with little more than a necklace and a handful of leads. Amid the obvious commentary on the horrors of war and the crimes perpetrated by both sides, it dabbles in the supernatural, with an event known as the Calamity spawning Hollow Walkers who terrorize survivors and soldiers alike.

The parallels between them and the real horror have been obvious since day one (it’s us, humanity, surprise). Amid all this, how does Hell is Us tackle one man’s search for his parents and the brutal, uncompromising portrayal of war while maintaining that action-adventure framework, offering just enough of an incentive to progress but also leaving you up to your own devices? Somewhat awkwardly, truth be told, but it’s a combination that still works.

"On the one hand, the dire consequences don’t really have very deep narrative consequences, but being told that someone starved to death because you were too late to realize where milk is obtained can be somewhat haunting."

The setting is Hadea, divided into multiple regions with the Sabinians and Palomists at war. You’re not privy to the frontlines. Instead, the journey unfolds from the perspective of Rémi, a peacekeeper who goes AWOL. Or rather, through his flashbacks, as he’s seated opposite a mysterious individual, drugged with truth serum and forced to recount what went down. While this approach is seemingly only in place for one reason, I do appreciate little details like the save points being polygraphs. Dying also causes some trippy feedback with the individual reminding him that’s not how things went down. A nice bit of attention to detail, even if faster respawns would have been preferred after seeing these scenes several times.

After obtaining some mysterious weapons in the Prologue and surviving his first encounter with a Hollow Walker, Rémi ventures forth with an APC, tablet, and drone to pursue the first leads about his father. From the outset, I really liked the overall vibe of Hell is Us – disparate, bleak, but also mysterious. However, the opening hour can take some time to grab you with its straightforward layouts. Rémi isn’t thrown into the deep end immediately, but thankfully, that changes in Acasa Marshes, which is also where the first town is located.

It’s here that the true atrocities of the war are laid bare. Entire families torn apart and executed. Soldiers reveling and disgusted by the slaughter in equal measure. Corpses hanging from trees. Even if some of the NPC dialogue can come across as occasionally stilted or cheesy, Rogue Factor doesn’t hold back from these depictions. Perhaps most depressing about all of this is that there are few happy endings, and even fewer if Rémi doesn’t get involved in some way.

Hell is Us starts as a pseudo-mystery/good Samaritan journey and works out pretty well. As you interact with more characters, more leads and branches open up, spurring you to explore other places. Some can initiate Good Deeds, somewhat akin to side quests, though they usually focus on obtaining items for the person in question or slaying some enemies. In typical FromSoft fashion, not completing these before progressing through the story can result in failure.

On the one hand, the dire consequences don’t really have very deep narrative consequences, but being told that someone starved to death because you were too late to realize where milk is obtained can be somewhat haunting. Some of these Good Deeds are decidedly not time-gated – the people locked underground in the first region seemingly survived for a good long while before I finally found the necessary key, which does hamper the immersion a bit. Otherwise, it’s an endearing loop, where Rémi’s purpose is intertwined with the people he meets.

"With the excessive focus on Hadea, its history, the tie-ins into the Keystones, the Vigil, and so on, it’s easy to forget that Rémi still has some stake in all this, especially since his deeper connection with the people seemingly halts after learning the next location."

That is, until several hours in, shortly before discovering the Watcher’s Nest and learning more about the Vigil. From this point, the story shifts to a hunt for four Keystones, each representing the same volatile emotions possessed by the Hazes – Grief, Rage, Terror, and Ecstasy. Rémi is joined by Tania, a journalist who deciphers research items discovered in the wild, using the progress to discover Vaults of Forbidden Knowledge. The lore and history of Hadea opens up, and it can be an overwhelming amount.

It’s all compelling stuff, especially with how it ties into some of the puzzles and progression towards the dungeons, but it’s still a lot. Tania is nice enough to compile all the research subjects into neat articles, but that still requires gathering them all.

With the excessive focus on Hadea, its history, the tie-ins into the Keystones, the Vigil, and so on, it’s easy to forget that Rémi still has some stake in all this, especially since his deeper connection with the people seemingly halts after learning the next location. Sure, you might discover some notes and letters from prior days, but forget wanting to know what happened to that father-son duo after they reunited and evacuated from a bombed-out town thanks to your help.

Then there’s the village where every citizen had their hands chopped off by the sadistic soldiers. Restoring power and saving their women is all well and good, but the soldiers are still very much there. It creates this vibe of simply moving along after I got my information. Good luck, everyone else!

The ending is also awkward because it feels like so much is left unresolved. Yet trying to consolidate it with the sheer amount of history and present circumstances of Hadea left me feeling somewhat empty.

I also have some heat with Rémi as a character. He’s a sociopath, which should mean ignoring others’ feelings, their rights, and so on. By the game’s own definition, he doesn’t really feel anything. Except for, you know, all the times that he does. You could explain this away with a late-game revelation, which isn’t spelt out, but even then, his personality comes across as uneven. His collaboration with Tania comes across well enough – common interests and whatnot – but the pivot to an actual friendship feels forced (and some of Rémi’s quips come across as corny).

"Backtracking is a problem, though, especially if you’re trying to figure out everything by yourself. There’s no fast travel between points – only returning to the APC – so if you suddenly decide to return to a Timeloop Rift in a dungeon because you found the correct material to dispel it, be prepared for a long trek."

As you run around Hadea, asking people if they’ve seen these images or heard of these Keystones, Hell is Us fulfills its most basic promise: No hand holding. No guidance. Find your own way. Discovered items could be the key to Mysteries, especially the Lymbic Rods, which open who knows what door or chest. The maps actually look like maps and are more like items you equip to reaffirm rough details rather than using them for knowing precisely where to go. Some Lymbic Roads can be quite important, as they can lead to other Timeloop Rifts in a region, though accessing them requires slaying specific Timeloop Guardians (which you can’t identify without a specific device or by the usual method of annihilating everything on the map).

That feeling of running around and suddenly discovering soldiers huddling inside of a ruined structure or structures that hum and react if you attack them in a specific order is pretty cool. Puzzle solutions can range from obvious (if you even mildly pay attention to the details of the surrounding environment) to occasionally perplexing, especially when manipulating a radio frequency to uncover a hidden safe and sussing out the password from historical dates and numbers on specific paintings. I would have liked it if the Vaults of Forbidden Knowledge involved more code-breaking rather than Tania outright providing the solution upon depositing enough research items, but alas.

Backtracking is a problem, though, especially if you’re trying to figure out everything by yourself. There’s no fast travel between points – only returning to the APC – so if you suddenly decide to return to a Timeloop Rift in a dungeon because you found the correct material to dispel it, be prepared for a long trek. Combined with the design of some environments, why does Acasa Marshes have so many places that you can fall into and die, requiring circling long distances? – and exploration sometimes becomes tedious as a result.

On the bright side, there are the dungeons, perhaps the highlight of the entire experience. From the Lymbic Forge with its dropping water levels to the Fallen’s final resting place with its various trials, from the tower and its pain-inducing timed puzzles to the Museum with its colored switches opening different doors, they feel maze-like and confusing in a good way. Keeping track of locations and where to use certain items is important, if not overtly complicated, and they offer a healthy balance between combat and puzzle-solving with plenty of unique rooms and encounters.

As Souls-like as the combat may seem – light and heavy attacks, stamina bar, et al – it’s actually more akin to Nioh. Upon landing attacks on enemies, small particles gather around, creating a healing pulse triggered with R1. Timing this correctly also restores stamina, seemingly encouraging a hyper-aggressive approach. However, the particles dissipate if you take a single hit, even while blocking, so there is a risk vs. reward approach…except that you can block and trigger a healing pulse at the same time, reducing that risk greatly.

"And yet, combat has more notable downsides because of the enemies and how they work. There are only five types of Hollow Walkers in the game, with three tiers. The higher tiers add a move or two to their repertoires – the real threat is when they’re linked to the Hazes."

Regardless, the overall feel of combat is quite nice. Parrying is responsive, albeit very easy to pull off, and the movement feels crisp more often than not. The dual axes were my weapon of choice, simply because of their sheer speed (the regular sword felt a little too sluggish for my liking). You can also opt for a Greatsword and Polearm, each with unique charge attacks. By improving a weapon’s grade, it can be imbued with an emotion, for lack of a better word, thus allowing for attaching specific Glyphs with unique abilities.

It felt like slim pickings most of the time – some of these Glyphs, particularly Grif, could use some buffs – prompting a more melee-focused approach, but thankfully, Hell is Us has no qualms about allowing that. Equip some gear that grants damage reduction and lifesteal on hit with a Passive Relic that reduces overall Lymbic energy in exchange for 50 percent more melee damage all the time, and go ham on an enemy.

And yet, combat has more notable downsides because of the enemies and how they work. There are only five types of Hollow Walkers in the game, with three tiers. The higher tiers add a move or two to their repertoires – the real threat is when they’re linked to the Hazes. You can’t deal any damage to the main body without defeating the Haze first, and they also have three different tiers, each with more complex attack patterns that prompt you to wait for parries. Things can get somewhat dicey when dealing with multiple linked enemies or multiple Hollows bound to a single Haze.

But you can also just stagger one with a ranged attack and annihilate it before the Haze emerges. Or batter the Hollow, reducing its stamina significantly, allowing you to destroy the Haze and get a free execution. The second method seems intentional, but the first outright trivializes most linked enemy encounters. The fact that most fights devolve into the same pattern – either kill the Hollow before the Haze can manifest or destroy the Haze and then kill the Hollow – means combat can get repetitive. And even then, there are some bugs, such as the stamina of a Hollow failing to reduce when attacked after the Haze retreats, leading to this awkward moment as you wait for it to take damage. The lack of proper boss fights doesn’t help either – outside of maybe two, the others feel more like you’re running around and fighting the same Hazes.

That’s not counting other aspects which could use a balance pass or two. Your drone has some nifty abilities, like dashing through multiple enemies or spinning to win, but it feels like there’s some lag in executing these (which would result in soaking up free damage). Charged heavy attacks seem cool at first, but ultimately fall by the wayside since the damage isn’t worth the time or Lymbic energy required.

"From the outset, Hell is Us knows what kind of experience it wants to offer, and how it wants you to experience it. Novel at times, a throwback to the older days of gaming in others, it’s a solid action-adventure with plenty of rough edges and shortcomings…"

It’s worth appreciating the art direction of Hell is Us. Venturing into the basement of the tower dungeon and seeing those bones shifting on that massive pile, looking out over the fields of gorgeous blue flowers on the shore of Lake Cynon, and even the clean floors and hallways of the Museum look suitably stunning. The combat animations are also pretty solid, especially for the Hollow Walkers and Hazes, and the cutscenes are pretty competently put together. However, optimization can be an issue. “In an Unreal Engine 5 title?”, you say. “No, that’s simply not possible!”

Running the game on a Core i5-11400, 32 GB of RAM, and an RTX 4060 put me above some of the recommended requirements, which anyway mandated upscaling. Regardless, it took a lot of finagling to get performance in a solid place, and even then, some blurry textures were sometimes apparent at a distance (and definitely so when shining a flashlight in dark corridors). Even when it seemed like performance remained consistently at 60 FPS, it would stutter and drop at times while exploring, regardless of anything happening or not. Your mileage will vary, as always, but it’s worth noting regardless.

From the outset, Hell is Us knows what kind of experience it wants to offer, and how it wants you to experience it. Novel at times, a throwback to the older days of gaming in others, it’s a solid action-adventure with plenty of rough edges and shortcomings, yet one that endeared me to venture beyond the next corner to see what’s ahead, even if the rewards were more rudimentary than breathtaking.

The overall lasting impact is up for debate, but it could be an experience you’ll more or less appreciate, even with its many flaws. If nothing else, Hell is Us kind of reminds us there’s no place like home, even if you can never truly go back.

This game was reviewed on the PC.

Hell is Us focuses on Rémi, a peacekeeper who leaves his post to travel to Hadea and locate his parents. The country is in the middle of a civil war, and that’s not even accounting for an event called the Calamity, which has loosed dangerous Hollow Walkers. Rémi must navigate the fires of war, battling the creatures, and ultimately fulfill a greater purpose.

While it sports combat mechanics similar to Souls-like titles, the main appeal of Hell is Us is the lack of hand holding. Players won’t receive any guidance or waypoints and must figure out how to progress forward. That especially applies in the game’s various dungeons, which you can learn more about here.

For Standard Edition owners, Hell is Us launches on September 4th for Xbox Series X/S, PS5, and PC.

This is yet another wrinkle in the overarching narrative, especially when considering the Calamity, the emergence of the Hollow Walkers, and whether his parents are still alive. Whatever the truth may be, players must learn the truth themselves, since Hell is Us offers no hand-holding. Even when exploring the world, you have nothing to rely on but your own wits and piecing together information from NPCs.

Hell is Us launches on September 4th for Xbox Series X/S, PS5, and PC, with Rogue Factor releasing a deep dive into the game’s dungeons. You can learn more about the title here or check out the latest demo on all platforms until August 28th.

It’s also available for PC players, and thankfully, several fixes have been made since the last limited-time demo. There’s a new difficulty screen for easier selection, the option to toggle camera follow, Favorite and Archive tabs for items, improved optimization (finally allowing for 4K/60 FPS), and tweaks to lock-on and targeting.

Parrying and riposte have also received some adjustments. All attacks are now blockable, but parrying only applies to a few (for which a visual cue now appears). The sequence that occurs on a riposte now occurs once every five to ten times instead of constantly. Check out the full patch notes for more details.

The demo will be available until August 28th for all platforms. Hell is Us launches on September 4th. Check out everything you need to know about it here.