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As a volunteer sent to a Japanese island facility, explore shifting corridors, scavenge gear, solve puzzles, and fight creatures.
Released 06 Jan 2023
Scavenge the Facility
Fight Abominable Creatures
Solve Facility Puzzles
EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE will throw you in a dark industrial environment, a secret facility on a japanese island. Each volunteer has signed a contract for a "recovery operation" without being privy to too many details. A tense roguelite survival horror with a top down perspective.
Developed by CC ARTS · Published by Hyperstrange
You play as a volunteer recruited for a recovery operation at a remote, supposedly abandoned industrial facility on a Japanese island. With little explanation of the assignment, you enter the complex and uncover signs that something has gone wrong.
Explore the facility from a top-down view, searching rooms for weapons, ammunition, gadgets, and other supplies while fighting hostile creatures. Manage a limited inventory, solve puzzles, and use equipment found or acquired during your run.
Each new level has a generated layout, and death sends in another volunteer with randomized starting equipment. Logs and documents, including records from the 1950s, offer clues about the facility’s history, while upgrades and devices can help you prepare for combat.
Players who enjoy the game often point to its oppressive industrial atmosphere, sound design, and mysterious setting, alongside the replayable runs created by changing layouts and replacement volunteers. Some also praise the tense combat and exploration. Reviews are more divided on visual clarity, difficulty, and resource constraints, with some finding it hard to distinguish enemies or interactable objects.
EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE will throw you in a dark industrial environment, a secret facility on a japanese island in the middle of nowhere. Each volunteer has signed a contract for a "recovery operation" without being privy to too many details.
They said the facility had been abandoned for decades, but once in place it was immediately apparent that something was wrong.
Discover the dark secrets of the facility's years of operation, up until the accident that led to the extreme consequences you are involved in.
Every time you die, you will control a new volunteer sent to the place. Your starting equipment will be randomized and each level will be generated with a new layout.
Dark corridors and cold rooms. Abominable creatures and bloody fights. Puzzles to solve, equipment, logs and documents to recover await you in this roguelite survival horror.
Random generated maps every time you enter a new level or you die
A top down perspective surrounded by darkness
Scavenge weapons, ammo and gadgets to raise your chance to survive
Manage your inventory to make room for what you deem vital
Different types of enemies will hunt you down each room of the facility
Buy upgrades and devices to help you during fights
Find logs and documents from the 1950s to unveil the stories of the people who worked there
| Platforms | Windows |
|---|---|
| Achievements | 26 |
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| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
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