Independent game developers Claudio Catalano and Simone Campione will be releasing new updates for their game STHELL on Steam today. The game will feature a 33% discount (for 14 days) on the full price. Inspired by the ’90s classic First Person Shooters, STHELL is a fast-paced arena shooter that will take you to a forgotten swamp that was once a test site of Kiratron Industries. Take on hundreds of machines left to rust for years, equipped with experimental weapons created by the same company decades ago. It’s a battle you probably won’t win, but make a stand and your resilience will be etched in their memory chips forever.
For the new STHELL update, we added a Perks System, so basically you now have in-game credits, that you earn each run by killing enemies and you can spend in the Upgrades view in the main menu, to buy perks and abilities. Perks are improvements to your health, weapons, speed etc. Abilities are proper offensive/defensive behaviors, like dropping an automatic machine turret for 15 seconds that helps you, a shield that protect you for a few seconds, a blast wave that purges all the enemies in your surroundings, slowing down the time for a few seconds etc.Every time you die you lose your perks and you have to buy it back again. In addition, we created a system of Community Leaderboards. Rather than just compete for the Global Leaderbard, everyone can create a custom leaderboard (with user and password) and share it with some friends or followers. We did this mostly for Twitch streamers, so they can create a leaderboard during a live for their followers and see the results immediately. STHELL was originally in English only, but will now be translated in Spanish, Russian, Chinese and Italian too.
Features
Fast paced nonstop action
Tons of rusty machines to fight against
Community Leaderboards. Create your own leaderboard and share the credentials with your followers/friends to have private matches.
Destroy cargo robots and recover new weapons to build up your loadout
Uncover the secrets behind Kiratron Industries, unlocking entries in the Database
Several enemies, each with their own combat style
Glorious Boss Fights, to push your limits even further
Survive as long as you can and climb the leaderboard: every millisecond counts!
