Helltaker

Steam title card.

Helltaker is a mostly passive block pushing puzzle video game developed and published by Łukasz Piskorz for Windows on 2020-05-11, the ported to Macintosh and Linux shortly thereafter.

In the game, you play as Helltaker, a hunky slab of a man who has entered hell in order to convince a bunch of sharply-dressed demon women to join his harem. But, in order to

Personal

I found this game on a list of popular games on steam250.com. It was described as a short puzzle game with sexy demons and that was enough to interest me. I beat it on 2023-01-31 with five achievements.

The game is free.

Review

7	4	7	6	5

Best Version: Windows

— This section contains spoilers! —

Good

• The art is very nice. The closeups of the demons The chibi characters bouncing to the music looks great.
• The music is very enjoyable. It's not so complex that it distracts you, and it's far from boring.
• Some of the dialogue is pretty funny and the characters each have their own personalities. Azazel, the curious angel, is wonderfully adorkable.
• I like that the game doesn't wear out its welcome. I don't think I could take much more of the block pushing, and the active puzzles for level 9 were a nice change up.

Bad

• This game missed the chance of having a female playable character.
• The movement controls are a bit too touchy. Also, since bumping into an unmovable stone does nothing, I would prefer it not decrease my movement count.
• In each level, you have to complete is using the least number of moves possible. This misses an opportunity to award the player with a bonus for finding the optimal path.

Ugly

• Nothing.

Media

Promotional

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  Steam title card.

Videos

Trailer.

Longplay.

Representation

Strong female character?	Fail	The strongest is Justice, but even she falls prey to the wiles of the player's character without much effort.
Bechdel test?	Fail	The women only talk about the player's male character.
Strong person of color character?	{{{StrongPOCCharacterStatus}}}	{{{StrongPOCCharacterNotes}}}
Queer character?	Fail	None of the characters are clearly queer.

Links

         

• helltaker.fandom.com/wiki/Helltaker_Wiki - Helltaker Wiki.
• twitter.com/i/events/1257962875831947264 - Supplemental comics.