Halls Of Torment Review (Steam)

by Jim Smale · September 25, 2024

Halls Of Torment Review, Slay hordes of terrifying monsters in this horde survival roguelite. Descend into the Halls of Torment where the Lords of the underworld await you. Treasures, magical trinkets, and a growing cast of heroes will grant you the power to vanquish these horrors from beyond. How long can you survive?

Halls Of Torment Review Pros:

Beautiful graphics, they are like Diablo 1 from appearance to the way it moves.
1.47GB download size.
Steam achievements.
Full controller support.
Display settings – fullscreen, pixelate UI fonts, pause when the focus is lost, UI effects, and a wide screen slider.
Input methods – auto aim, auto attack, mouse-only mode, move only on hold and remap controls.
Twitch Integration.
Boot options – play game, force dedicated GPU, and OpenGL version.
Survival gameplay.
Plays like those Vampire Survivors games.
You can play the game as a twin stick in that you aim where you shoot or you can set it to auto. (simple button press)
Unlock new characters by playing.
Interface settings – set the cursor type, color of cursor, cursor size slider, aiming line, set damage number pop-ups, and show input hints.
So much atmosphere.
Rather impressive enemy count on screen.
The enemies are more akin TO diablo again with skeletons, beasts, sorcerers, etc.
Each character has unique stats and abilities.
Quests are on a tombstone in the hub and as you finish them, you earn bonus rewards.
Register of Halls is the tombstone in the hub for location selection.
Shrine of Blessings is in the hub where you spend cash on upgrading your stats like attack, defense, damage, etc.
You can refund your cash at any time.
Fast loading times.
Bosses will spawn.
Find cages with prisoners and grab the key to release them.
Old school atmosphere and presentation.
You can replay levels for Rewards completion.
Pick up exp pellets from enemies and level up, pick one of four random upgrades each time.
Scrolls can be picked up and give you a choice of three random passive abilities.
Chests will drop amd here you pick up one of three items to wear and equip. You can swap them in and out.
You can pause the game.
All runs are timed.
Has cool effects like knocking over fire baskets can set the floor on fire and even enemies.
The screen looks very daunting but honestly, it’s very simple.
Any special drops or objectives will show icons on the screen and move as you move.
A hand drop once picked up gives you all currently dropped exp and coins.
Breakable elements within the location.
Simple to get into.
Fantastic animations.
So much replayability.
The music is very powerful.
The lighting helps set the mood and dread.
Progress bars show for all quests.
Each boss type has its own unique attacks and formations which keeps it fresh.

Halls Of Torment Review Cons:

Takes a while to get going.
The tutorial is kind of very basic and almost nonexistent.
Obviously the game is very luck-based.
No way to zoom in on the camera as it can be hard to make things out.
The game doesn’t have a central menu for all the icons, power-ups, etc so that takes a while to get used to.

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