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Forge powerful builds with endless loot in this relentless combination of Roguelike and ARPG. Blast through dungeons and unleash inhuman powers in a dark fantasy twist on Brazil’s War of Canudos.
Hell Clock is a action rpg, stylized and roguelike game
developed by Rogue Snail
and published by Mad Mushroom.
Released on July 22nd 2025 is available only on Windows
in 9 languages: English, Portuguese - Brazil, French, German, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Spanish - Latin America.
It has received 1,938 reviews of which 1,614 were positive and 324 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.0 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 19.50€ on Steam.
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Windows
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i5 2500 or AMD FX-4350
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: nVidia GTX 1060 / AMD RX 580 with 6GB of VRAM
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 2 GB available space
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Let me preface this with the fact that I am an avid roguelike/roguelite player, and I've also played exile-like games such as PoE2 and Last Epoch. I bought this game 2 days after its release and as of writing this, I have clocked 48h of gameplay and have cleared Hell 5 with much ease. Now, this game is indeed incomplete, but I am still giving it a recommend as I'm not very hard to please. Why is it incomplete? 1. They are still testing out what systems would work best for their endgame. They literally said the endgame was in Beta. I don't see this as a bad thing if the developers intend to make it the best game that they can (I hope they do). 2. Very inbalanced scaling for boss health and damage. Some find this a turnoff, I see it as a challenge. But I do see why many people can struggle with this if they're new to either roguelike/roguelite and/or exile-like genres. Also feel like some skills/relics are much more potent than others. Looking at you bombardment, the CD reduction per hit just destroys any other builds by far IMO, not complaining tho ;) 3. Lack of clarity for ALOT of things. I had to do alot of testing in-game. These are a few off the top of my head. - There is a relic that gives stacking melee dmg upon "Lifesteal". There is only one other gear (one of the rings) I've seen that uses the same term, "Lifesteal". I've tested this with multiple other relics with effects I think may be counted as "Lifesteal". The double knives relic that converts dmg to life -> counted as Lifesteal. Life on Kill -> counted as Lifesteal. The kicker, however, is that you have to have missing health in order for you to proc Lifesteal to provide the stacking melee dmg buff. - Global buffs per skill rank. Didn't take long for me to notice that increasing the skill rank didn't give the global buffs, But only realised before writing this review that what that meant is that for whatever skill you bring into the run, you get those buffs per level added into that skill. - Initially had no idea what some of the statuses did (looking at shocked and blight). My presumption was shocked contributed to stun and blight amplified damage taken, but that's not what it did. They have since added tooltips when you hover over the stats in the character sheet in the 1.0.1 update, so alls good. - I would think double knives and reflexes count as AoE skills since they are literally AoE and their AoE can be increased via leveling up. However, they do not have the AoE tag. So does increased AoE damage not apply to these skills? I have not tested this. - I wasn't sure where my base damage numbers were coming from. Increasing base damage by 50 gave me more than 50 base damage when reflected in the character sheet. Not sure if that's a bug or are there some other hidden multipliers. If so, would be good for devs to include a tooltip to show damage calculations (and likewise for other stats such as crit, status chance etc.). - Pretty sure I saw something somewhere mentioning "Toxic" instead of "Plague", not a big issue tho. - For leveling up effects related to relics (eg. explosion area for the quill relic, activation speed for book of sin for judgement), apparently they can be allocated to any skill, not just the skill that the relic affects. Not sure if this is a bug or if it's intended. Also not sure if it's only some or all relics. 4. Plenty of QoL missing. I will mention this further in a suggestions section below. Pros 1. Tons of damage, its just nice to see damage numbers in the hundred thousands and occasionally millions. 2. Build variety. Even with these 20+ or so skills, I feel like there's currently enough relics and skills for me to test multiple builds to see what works and how to improve on them. 3. Simple gameplay loop. Do a run, get soulstones/constellation points. Improve passive skill/constellation tree. Some prefer a more complicated loop, I think its great for beginners of the genre. 4. Relaxed mode. Again, good for beginners. They have also included Vengeance mode in 1.0.1. 5. Thank god for red gates. I also didn't know they only added the exp and gold buff in 1.0.1. I thought it was in the game on release. 6. All the loot flies to you if you kill every single mob in a map. I feel like this was only added in 1.0.1 but I didn't see it anywhere in their patch notes. You still have to kill every single mob tho. But there is a constellation somewhere that lets items get global-sucked when you kill a rare mob. Cons Apart from the reasons why the game feels incomplete: 1. WHERE IS THE SORT/SEARCH FOR RELICS JESUS. Would also be good to include search function in the passive tree if devs intend to expand the tree further. 2. Constellation tree reset, at least for the campaign. I understand that in the endgame mode, we have to allocate points dynamically based on what build we're trying to go for and what relics the runs give us so that's fine. But its extremely important for build testing when returning to the campaign. Devs did mention that they're working on this. 3. A few but important bugs that need fixing. - Game suddenly going super slow when returning from a run, I've experienced this twice and I didn't know what was causing it. It's since been fixed in 1.0.1. - Constellation points missing in hell mode. After finishing Hell 5 and returning to campaign, I had 27 points. When I entered Hell 10, I only had 21. Not sure if this is intended, could it be that you're given a set amount of points at the beginning of each new hell level? Pretty sure I was supposed to carry forward all my constellation points though, or am I mistaken? - Devotion path completion not giving me the completion points as intended (GAME BREAKING). I'm pretty sure this is a bug. I've encountered it twice where I maxed out a constellation and it did not give me the completion points. One of this was in my first hell mode run, Hell 2. This I could handle, since the world can be resetted. But the other one is in my campaign mode and it's crippling my gameplay experience. Might not continue until this is fixed (without me having to start a new save file). PSA. I think this happens when you have enough points to max out more than 1 constellation in 1 go when allocating new constellation points. - Act 2 boss (14F) can sometimes freeze/get stuck while in the air because he has a jumping/dive AoE move, and you can't damage him while hes up there. Currently couldn't find a way to get him back down as far as I know, forcing a rerun. 4. Repetitive. Not a big con for me for now but I think it will get boring after awhile. I've almost memorised the layout for all the maps. Devs did mention that they intend to include more acts/variety of maps in the future. Suggestions 1. Relic sort/search as mentioned, definitely please include this. Devs did mention that they are working on it. 2. Allow renaming of relic pages, and drag and drop relic pages to re-order them. 3. Save button. I'm not sure when exactly does the game auto-saves. I've quitted the game after making changes to my build and before entering a new run and it was saved. But at the same time, I assumed it was after each completed run of an Act because the gear shop resets everytime I reload, so that doesn't get saved and allows us to bypass the redraw cost (although its not that expensive). So I'm not sure which one is intended and which one isn't. 4. Game manual/FAQ, devs are already working on it. 5. Mentioned above, but tooltips for how each stat is calculated would be good. 6. Transparency slider for damage numbers. I still want to see big damage numbers but I don't want it to completely cover my screen such that I can't see what's going on. 7. Standardisation of terms used (see example on "Lifesteal" above) 8. PLEASEEEE let me move while casting the quill spell instead of stopping each time i cast it (might be intended this way but man would it be good if i didn't have to stop every 0.25s)
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I felt obligated to write a review due to the amount of people leaving negative reviews. Normally I don't bother to write reviews, mainly because I think that other people might have more experience writing them and can translate their opinions about the game into words better than I can. That being said, I fully completed the game and earned all achievements, so I felt like I was in a position where I could speak about the game since I've seen most of what there is to offer at this point. The game is great as it is. I absolutely love the emotion in the Portuguese voice acting, and love the game design when it comes to the power curves. I know that many have said that they don’t enjoy it, but for someone with nearly 3000 hours in Path of Exile and several thousands of hours across the rest of the ARPG genre, it was a breath of fresh air to have someone finally integrate what makes a roguelite fun into a proper ARPG. There are performance issues, there are bugs, and the power curve isn’t perfect – particularly when it comes to the campaign, but I’m not sure there’s a single game nowadays that doesn’t have issues on release, let alone issues that some player will have with any game regardless of how good the majority of players think it is. Some games also just aren’t “for” some groups of players, for whatever reason. Personally, the souls games and souls-likes aren’t for me. I don’t like the movement and the memorisation required for those games, but I recognise that and don’t leave a harmful review just because I’m not good at the game and didn’t enjoy it as much. For those leaving negative reviews because of the difficulty of the game, please just ask the community for help. It is possible to go through each act in less than 7 runs on your initial campaign run. It’s implausible, but it is indeed possible. I didn’t manage it on my first run, mainly because I used my demo save and started the game with 8 runs from the demo, so it was impossible to get those achievements without just starting over, but I did manage to achieve it on a separate save file. In order to achieve the “speed run” achievements, you need to focus less on a specific build that you want to aim for, and basically make the most of the relics that you do receive, to build the strongest build that the game has offered for you. As someone who enjoys SSF in PoE, this game is like cocaine to me. Taking away the relics and constellations I had used on a previous run to then get to go through the whole experience again from scratch (except with even more power each time due to having more constellations right off the bat from the promises in Ascensions) is EXACTLY what I didn’t even know that I wanted until I did. I love building something fresh with whatever it is that the game randomly gives to me, and I’ve enjoyed building out builds that I hadn’t even considered playing on other playthroughs. Some builds I’ve made are: double knives/reflexes crit build on my initial run, summoner old bell + catholic guard + marksmen + bigboi (swapped big boi for crits once I become invulnerable due to mana shield) for boatloads of damage (without really doing much except spamming bonks on monster’s heads) due to split shot relics affecting the catholic guard, the flame lash attack stacked with a bunch of rare relics to increase its damage, and a quill build with boatloads of projectile stacking. One thing to note that I didn’t realise until much later, much like in PoE, you can only equip one of each unique relic, but rare relics can be equipped without limits. Once I realised this, I realised that was one of the easiest ways to scale massive amounts of damage, as upgrading these tends to lead to massive damage buffs for particular skills and stacking them leads to game-breaking levels of damage. While some builds feel good with a lot of uniques to make them work, in many cases in this game, less is actually more. Finding the balance between using rare relics and using the build defining uniques is a balancing act that I didn’t recognise early enough, but it can definitely help many players to discover that and use these rare relics to upgrade their builds. The rare relics can more easily be acquired by the blessing shrines that have a glowing yellow orb in the statue’s hand, and the reroll cost is independent from the other reroll pools in each run. There’s plenty more for me to experiment with, and I’m glad I spent the time and money on this game; it was absolutely worth it for me and if you find yourself to be a similar gamer to myself, I recommend it wholeheartedly. Like I said before, there are some issues with the game, but the devs are proving themselves to truly care about the community and are quickly implementing features from recommendations by the community (such as the vengeance mode for those struggling with the power curve). One final thing is just a thank you to the dev team that built this game. Thanks so much for finally bringing a true roguelite format to my favourite game genre. It’s brilliant, and I can’t wait to see what you do to build on this fantastic base in the future.
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I rarely make reviews, but I felt this game merited some positive light. If you like intelligent build diversity in rogue-likes, this is the game for you. The recent abundance of rogue-like slop that's just monotonous bland builds has made me feel like the genre has reached over-saturation and is about to die. Hell Clock has revitalized my faith that the genre still has something left in the tank to make me feel exited about playing. I hate to say it but any of the negative reviews on this game are coming from gamer's that are hyper-fixed on immediate reward with very little thought, planning, and patience. The game has been out for a little less than 48 hours and people are already complaining about pacing "end-game" being too difficult... please....If you want dopamine that quickly, there are Clicker or Gacha games that will happily provide you your fix and take your money. I whole hardheartedly hope that the Developers see this review and will pay little mind to the reviews exclaiming that the game is any less than a great addition to Rogue-likes. I appreciate all of your efforts. It shows that your heart in this game. Thank you! p.s. don't nerf my summoner catholic guard+cross build :D
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Good game, but the Reliquary is in desperate need of a search bar. Sorting through pages of relics is not fun
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Whoever came up with the idea of mixing Hades with Path of Exile (or Last Epoch) is an evil genius that created digital heroin.
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Hell Clock is currently priced at 19.50€ on Steam.
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Hell Clock received 1,614 positive votes out of a total of 1,938 achieving a rating of 7.99.
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Hell Clock was developed by Rogue Snail and published by Mad Mushroom.
Hell Clock is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Hell Clock is not playable on MacOS.
Hell Clock is not playable on Linux.
Hell Clock is a single-player game.
There are 2 DLCs available for Hell Clock. Explore additional content available for Hell Clock on Steam.
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Rogue Snail
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Mad Mushroom
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22 Jul 2025
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