Polygon.com / 14.06.25

Hell is Us terrifies in all the best ways

Hell is Us has been on my radar since it was first announced in April 2022, and Ive finally been able to spend some time with it via its demo. The war-torn world of Hell is Us is immediately chilling and the demos brief glimpse of the gameplay, despite some minor hang-ups, has me eager for more. You play as Remi as he ventures to the fictional country of Hadea. A civil war has broken out, dividing and devastating Hadeas people. Remi must travel through the war zone in search of his parents, and quickly comes across a farmer who exposition-dumps plenty of information that may or may not stick. Essentially, shit is bad, tragically so, and Remi is about to discover just how bad. You wander around a forest while an unsettling Returnal-esque score accompanies you. Eventually you gain access to ruins that turn out to have been some sort of dungeon for prisoners long ago. Its here that Remi encounters the first of hopefully many oh, shit! moments. He comes across a creepy-ass enemy I can best...
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