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业火 Hellfire (2024)

业火 Hellfire cover
Developer
Aki
Platforms
Windows
Genres
Indie, Free To Play
Rating
4.9 of 5, 249 player ratings
Typical playtime
about 23 minutes
Where to get it
Steam

How it feels

A quietly unsettling folk horror that trades jump scares for the slow dread of feudal oppression, told through fragmented memory in a desolate rural landscape.

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What players say

Players praise the game's courage in tackling real-life horrors of human trafficking and rural patriarchy, calling its brief 15-minute story more chilling than any monster. A minority say the game's quality is weak and only its subject matter earns praise.

Screenshots

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