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Halls of Torment

A survivor-like wearing Diablo 1 clothes — dark isometric halls, item drops and a boss at the end of each hall. Blessings are refundable, traits last one run, and items only become permanent through the Well, which makes the progression read very differently from the rest of the genre.

2024 Action Indie RPG ★ Overwhelmingly Positive · 95% 31,881 reviews
Halls of Torment

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Halls of Torment Items — How the Well Actually Works

Items in Halls of Torment are the part people misunderstand, because finding one is not keeping one. A chest gives you gear for the current run, and turning it into permanent equipment takes a separate three-step process through the Well and the Wellkeeper. This guide covers how that process works, the six equipment slots, why Extra Buckets matter more than they sound, and how loadouts let you stop rebuilding your gear every time you switch hero.

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Halls of Torment Beginner Guide — What to Do With Your Gold

Halls of Torment looks like Vampire Survivors with Diablo's art, and the thing new players miss is that the run is not the progression. Gold is. Every failed attempt still pays out, and what you buy with it decides how the next twenty attempts go. This guide covers the opening hours in the order that matters: where the gold goes, which hall to be in, and how heroes actually unlock.

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Halls of Torment Traits — What to Take at Every Level-Up

Traits are where a Halls of Torment run is won or lost, and the system confuses people because you do not choose from a list — you choose from a pool that only offers what your level allows. Higher ranks of a trait simply do not appear until you have levelled enough. This guide covers what to prioritise, how ranks and the pool work, what the Cupbearer's potions change, and why the Shrine of Blessings does more for you than any single level-up decision.

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Halls of Torment Characters Ranked — All 14 and Who to Play

Halls of Torment has fourteen heroes and they are not variations on the same character — your starting ability decides which traits and items are worth taking for the entire run. Picking wrong means forty minutes of a build that never assembled. This ranking sorts them by how reliably each one turns an average run of level-up offers into a working build, then lists every hero with their starting ability and specialisation.

Overview

What's the Game?

A survivor-like wearing Diablo 1 clothes — dark isometric halls, item drops and a boss at the end of each hall. Blessings are refundable, traits last one run, and items only become permanent through the Well, which makes the progression read very differently from the rest of the genre.

Three separate progressions

blessings bought with gold and shared by every hero, traits chosen inside a run and lost at its end, and items made permanent through the Well.

Refundable by design

the Shrine of Blessings returns everything you have spent with no penalty, so there is no wrong long-term investment.

The Well is the catch

finding an item is not keeping it; you send it up during the run and then buy it from the Wellkeeper, and Extra Buckets are what lift the one-save-per-run limit.

Fourteen heroes

starting abilities differ enough that each one asks for a different build rather than a different stat line.

95 percent positive on Steam

from over 31,000 reviews, which is near the top of the survivor-like category.

Honest caveats

the mid-game repeats itself before later unlocks arrive, and the trait system takes longer to become legible than it should.

Trailer

Trailer

Halls of Torment Gameplay Watch on Steam

Screenshots

Screenshots

Languages

Supported Languages

Language Interface Audio Subtitles
日本語
Deutsch
English
Español
Français
Italiano
한국어
Português (Brasil)
Русский
简体中文
繁體中文

Spec

System Requirements

Windows

Minimum

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 or newer Processor: 4 Cores / 2.5 GHz+ Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Intel Iris Xe / Nvidia GTX 970 / AMD RX 570 (Adrenalin 22.1.2) Storage: 4 GB available space

Recommended

Recommended: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 or newer Processor: 4 Cores / 3.5 GHz+ Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia GTX 1070 / AMD RX 570 (Adrenalin 22.1.2) Storage: 4 GB available space

macOS

Minimum

Minimum:

Recommended

Recommended:

Linux

Minimum

Minimum: OS: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS or equivalent Processor: 4 Cores / 2.5 GHz+ Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Intel Iris Xe / Nvidia GTX 970 / AMD RX 570 (Mesa 22.0) Storage: 4 GB available space

Recommended

Recommended: OS: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS or equivalent Processor: 4 Cores / 3.5 GHz+ Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia GTX 1070 / AMD RX 570 (Mesa 22.0) Storage: 4 GB available space

Achievements

Achievement Highlights

Ember Dominator III Ember Dominator III
Ember Survivor III Ember Survivor III
Flamedancer Flamedancer
Imp Slayer I Imp Slayer I
Lord of Regret Lord of Regret
The Imp Chieftain The Imp Chieftain
The Skeleton Lord The Skeleton Lord
The Wellkeeper The Wellkeeper
Wraith Warlord Wraith Warlord
Wyrm Queen Wyrm Queen

FAQ

FAQ

A survivor-like built to look and feel like Diablo 1, developed by Chasing Carrots, which left Early Access with a 1.0 release in September 2024. It sits at 95 percent positive on Steam from over 31,000 reviews, near the top of the category, and the dark isometric presentation with item drops is doing real work rather than acting as a skin.
Three ways that matter in play. It has item drops and equipment slots rather than only upgrade picks. It is structured as halls with bosses rather than one long survival timer. And the heroes are genuinely distinct, with starting abilities that dictate what the rest of the run should build toward. The moment-to-moment feel is slower and heavier, which suits some players and not others.
They are three separate progression systems and confusing them is the usual beginner mistake. Blessings are bought with gold in camp, apply to every hero and are fully refundable. Traits are chosen during a run and vanish when it ends. Items are permanent, but only after you send them up the Well during a run and then buy them from the Wellkeeper — finding one is not keeping one.
Yes, in full and with no penalty. The Shrine of Blessings refunds everything you have spent, which means there is no wrong long-term investment and no reason to hoard gold waiting for certainty. Spend it, and respec when your plan changes.
Yes, alongside Russian, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Korean and around a dozen other languages. There is no voice acting to localise and the interface carries most of the information, so playing outside English is comfortable.

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