Halls of Torment News

HoT Experimental Update | 2025-01-21

[h2]Hello Adventurers![/h2]

In roughly 2-3 weeks we intend to release our first proper post-release update with the Supporter Pack and Original Soundtrack. The Store pages for both will be coming online within the next few days, but the accompanying free update will be available today on the “Experimental” branch.

If you are new here, we usually update our content on the Experimental branch early to gather some feedback and do readjustments before the release on the main branch. If you want to join the Experimental branch, right-click on Halls of Torment in your Steam library, select “Properties…”, go to “Betas”, and set the beta branch to “Experimental”.

The full change log with a feedback collection thread can be found here:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/2218750/discussions/0/758394165818106534/

[h3]An overview of the changes:[/h3]

Pickup Range / DPS Meter options.
4 new items.
6 new artifacts.
Balanced Shrine of Torment. (values and artifacts)
Introduced ways to upgrade abilities 3 times per run.
Balanced Block/Defense of players and Damage of enemies.
Adjusted monster spawns, generally a bit lower but tougher monsters.
Performance / Stability updates.
Several smaller balancing adjustments especially to projectile based abilities.
Dozens of bug fixes.

Stay Fresh!
- Chasing Carrots

HoT Bundle - Steam Deck Stars

[h2]Hello Handheld Heroes![/h2]

We’ve teamed up with our friends at Bippinbits (Dome Keeper), Mega Crit (Slay the Spire), and Pugstorm (Core Keeper) to bring you a bundle of Steam games that you can easily take with you and play during your holidays!

[h3]We are introducing the[/h3]
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/48219/Steam_Deck_Stars/

All of our games are Steam Deck Verified for your enjoyment during a quick break, while traveling, between events, or when you’re in need of some quality alone time.
We hope you enjoy the rest of the year.

Stay hydrated, stay fresh, and stay healthy!
- Chasing Carrots

HoT Preview | Update 01 & Supporter Pack

Hello Fellow Tormented Souls!

We hope you all are doing well so far. As for us, we’re happily working on things to come and making plans further down the road. As previously announced after the last update, we decided to take it a bit slower. The next update will take until early next year, probably late January or February, mostly because we’re going to take a little break during the festive season.

But still, we have some progress to share with you. This is a quick preview of things to come.
We’re currently working on two things in parallel. The first one is a smaller free update with some new items and artifacts. Balancing, bug fixes, and performance improvements are coming as well. Further below you’ll find a small excerpt. If you’re interested in the full list, you can find it here: https://open.codecks.io/hot

The second part will be a paid DLC: the Supporter Pack. It will contain mostly visual changes to heroes and the in-game HUD, and also a small training area to test out some of your favorite builds in a controlled environment.

In 2025 we will keep working on Halls of Torment. Besides working on console support for Halls of Torment we’re also planning to work on content DLCs that will bring new stages, characters, and abilities. But more about that next year.

[h2]Free Update 01 [/h2]
Six new artifacts for additional challenges, including a smaller rebalancing of the Torment Levels.
Torment Levels will have a reduced increase in Damage and Movement Speed for enemies.

New Artifact: Enemies will gain Block Strength with each player level.
New Artifact: Reduce elemental chances but increase elemental damage.
New Artifact: Make enemies bigger, fewer of them spawn but they have more health.
New Artifact: Chance for each regular enemy to spawn as an enhanced version, dropping goodies.
New Artifact: Reduce the maximum number of abilities.
New Artifact: Reduce crit and effect chance with bigger area and range.

There are also four new items coming. One will be a bit special as it will not have a common version. You’ll only ever get the uncommon version of it.

Elemental Capacitor (Necklace): Apply Damage bonus to Burn, Spark and Frost.
Beast Master’s Hide (Body): Spawns beasts fighting for you. They despawn once they’ve taken too much damage.
Demonic Grasp (Footwear): When moving spawn summoned hands that grab enemies, XP, and items.
Ability Signet (Ring): Enables the wearer to upgrade an ability three times. (can’t be unequipped)

With the Ability Signet we also updated the Sage’s Mark that upon equipping it with the sage it allows the sage to use the 3rd upgrade of an ability on his main ability.

Other changes coming:

Many smaller technical performance improvements.
Changing the spawn pattern of waves to reduce lag spikes.
Additional information in the character stats about things like burn, spark and frost damage.
Shrine of Archeologists will now be teleported to the player like the well after defeating a lord.
An option to make the pickup range visible.
Vsync On/Off option to enable higher FPS.
Vault will spawn champions after 30 minutes.
Live DPS overlay.
Some additional things we’re still working on!

[h2]Supporter DLC[/h2]

We’ll add an alternative cosmetic skin for each character.

Those are purely visual and do not change the gameplay of characters.

Three HUD designs that can be selected via the settings.

A training area to test setups in a controlled environment.

We also want to say a big thank you for all the support the community has shown. Your feedback is always very helpful for us! We wish you all a good end of the year 2024! See you soon!
- Chasing Carrots

Halls of Torment hits 1 million sales - more free updates planned

Halls of Torment has been a great hit for developers Chasing Carrots, with it hitting 1 million sales on Steam.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/halls-of-torment-hits-1-million-sales-more-free-updates-planned

HoT Million | Sales milestone and more to come!

[h3]Hello Everyone![/h3]

We want to shout out a huge THANK YOU! We reached a huge milestone by having sold a million units on Steam. It’s a great achievement for us so close after the release, and we’ve decided our journey won’t end here. We want to move further after leaving Early Access. We are currently working on some additional free content, fixing more bugs, and improving the game’s performance. You can have a peek at our current work progress here: Codecks – Halls of Torment 1.0

Aside from that, we’d like to release a Supporter DLC which would include character and UI skins, the soundtrack, and maybe an additional surprise. This will be a test balloon for us to check the DLC integration for Halls of Torment. If things go well we might add more extended content along with some more free updates.

See ya soon!
- Chasing Carrots

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