EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE

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.

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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

✦ AI summary

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.

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

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.

Recommended Aug 3, 2026
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 issue
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Recommended Sep 5, 2026
=======《 [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…
Recommended Aug 28, 2026
Excellent. Very fun and tense. Great atmosphere and use of restricted visuals and sound.
Recommended Aug 12, 2026
only played cuz i cant afford doorkickers
Recommended Jul 15, 2026
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
Recommended Jul 11, 2026
wish had the money to buy it but its pretty great ngl

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