Planned Release Date: Oct 13, 2026

About This Game

A PLACE THAT SHOULDN'T EXIST
You wake up with no memory of how you got here, in a place that shouldn't exist. The corridors repeat, the doors lead to rooms you've already seen, and yet nothing ever quite feels the same twice. Something is here with you — and it hasn't come to explain itself.

NO ONE'S GOING TO TELL YOU
That's not how this place works. Whatever you learn, you learn by walking through it — reading each room, surviving long enough to reach the next door. The further you go, the less you like what you're starting to understand.

THE PLACE KEEPS SCORE
Messages are scrawled across the walls, unexplained. Rooms that shouldn't make sense, somehow do. Silence breaks exactly when you've stopped expecting it to. Nothing here is told to you through dialogue or a cutscene — the answers are found, not spoken.

STAYING ALIVE
Hellternum plays in third person, the camera locked close over your shoulder, so you never quite see what's coming until it's already on top of you. You've got a pipe wrench for close-quarters defense and a pistol with a fixed supply of ammo that never refills — every round counts, and none go to waste. There's no save option: the game is built to be finished in one sitting, so every choice actually matters.

ABOUT THE PROJECT
Hellternum is developed by Weird Potro Studio, with an original score composed specifically for it — built to be played in a single session, and to stay with you well after that session ends.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Hellternum is developed by a small independent studio. Some visual elements — certain in-game illustrations, textures and marketing images — were produced with the help of generative AI tools, always under direct human art direction and edited by hand to fit the game's visual identity.

Everything else is human-made: design, writing, level design, code and audio.

We think you should know this before you play.