

EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE
CC ARTS · January 6, 2023 · Action Roguelike, Roguelite, Top-Down, Roguelike, Action-Adventure
EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.
EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE price
EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE is free to play — there is no purchase price, on Steam or anywhere else we track. We keep watching it, so if it ever stops being free the price history on this page will show when that happened and what it changed to.
About EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE
Uncover the horrific secrets of an abandoned Japanese research facility by controlling successive volunteers through procedurally-generated corridors filled with abominable creatures and environmental puzzles. This top-down roguelite survival horror constantly reshuffles its layout and enemies with each death, forcing you to scavenge weapons, manage limited inventory, and piece together logs from the 1950s to reveal what catastrophe occurred.
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
EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE — game info
- Platforms
- Windows
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Player modes
- Single-player
- Controller
- Full controller support
- PC Game Pass
- Not included
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
eeeehhhhh, it could be better yk? the game's nice, idea is nice. i like how you get turned into a new agent whenever you die but the graphics makes you impossible to see the enemies i dont know, might be a skill issue1 found this helpful
=======《 [b]Graphics[/b] 》======= ☐ Feels like real life ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Not great ☐ Better not stare too long ☐ MS-DOS =======《 [b]Gameplay[/b] 》======= ☑ Really good ☐ Good ☐ It's gameplay, I guess ☐ Meh ☐ I'd rather watch paint dry ☐ Don't even try =======《 [b]Audio[/b] 》======= ☐ My ears are happy ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Okay ☐ Bad ☐ RIP my ears =======《 [b]Audience[/b] 》======= ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandpa =======《 [b]PC Requirements[/b] 》======= ☐ Runs on a calculator ☑ Potato PC ☐ Decent ☐ Pretty fast ☐ You'd better have a good PC ☐ Ask NASA for a computer =======《 [b]Game Size[/b] 》======= ☐ Fits on a floppy disk ☑ Small ☐ Manageable ☐ Pretty big ☐ Goodbye, 1 TB of storage ☐ Needs its own hard drive ☐ Time to buy a black hole =======《 [b]Difficulty[/b] 》======= ☐ Press W and win ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn, hard to master ☐ Needs some brain power ☑ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls level =======《 [b]Grind[/b] 》======= ☐ Basically no grind ☐ Only for rankings ☑ Optional grind ☐ Average ☐ Too much grinding ☐ Prepare to lose your life =======《 [b]Story[/b] 》======= ☐ What story? ☑ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Really nice ☐ This game is my life now =======《 [b]Game Tim…
Excellent. Very fun and tense. Great atmosphere and use of restricted visuals and sound.
only played cuz i cant afford doorkickers
Good game 😊, interesting story there 👍. Like the randomization in the map when you start new game, but when one character die and new one replace it, keeping on the progress of the last "volunteer" it doesn't make sense to me. My review (as fan of this game) is included in the latest video ;). https://youtu.be/ELMfMDwsprM https://youtu.be/dfJXtQ_wqL4
wish had the money to buy it but its pretty great ngl
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