About This Game

Heartless Dark is a top-down action-roguelike with survival horror elements. It plays like a familiar top-down-shooter but your flashlight is your only view into the darkness - oh and your 6th sense... Resources are scarce and even the furniture could be trying to kill you.



Note from Roarke (the developer):
Heartless Dark was designed as a 'coffee-break roguelike' - easy to pick up and put down and not hugely demanding of your time. A run could be completed in around 20 minutes if you're good enough. While it may not contain thousands of item combinations, hundreds of enemies and complex meta-progression like other games in the genre, I've still put my passion into creating a unique, atmospheric and replay-able experience.

Action-Roguelike: Shoot, dodge, stun, electrocute, throw bombs and other tools as you kill monsters in abandoned corporate offices. Expect procedural levels, stats, upgrades, synergies, multiple characters and perma-death.



Oppressive Darkness: Your flashlight is your only view into the darkness all around you. Oh and your 6th sense...



Survival Horror: Your survival relies on spatial awareness, managing your limited resources and learning to use hazards to your advantage.

FEATURES

GAMEPLAY:

• Randomly generated corporate office levels
  
• Perma-death
  
• Environmental hazards
  
• Stats, upgrades, items and synergies
  
• Multiple playable characters (including randomized)
  
• Discoverable lore
  
• Possessed furniture that might try to kill you

QUALITY OF LIFE:

• Seed system
  
• Controller support
  
• Customizable difficulty

DOES NOT FEATURE:

• Loot boxes or micro-transactions
  
• Complex meta-progression
  
• Dialogue
  
• Skill Trees
  
• Multiplayer

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Frequent use of guns and explosives to kill stylized or abstract monsters. No gruesome or realistic depictions of blood/gore.