The doors to the Lodge have opened, welcome to the Club!
After more than two years of development we're incredibly excited to be launching Eyes of Hellfire into Early Access today. This game has already been influenced by community feedback from our prior two playtests, and that collaboration will continue in this Early Access journey. Today we're launching with a ton of features and more to come.
Thank you for your support!
Colm, and the rest of the Gambrinous team.
Friends play free with Friends Pass:
If you pick up a copy of the game up to 4 of your friends can join you for free by installing the friends pass. Quite a deal!
Some quotes from playtesters:
“Hearing my friend scream from down the hall was a delight.”
"You have made Irish history of the Hellfire club relevant again!"
“And now a round of applause for the proximity chat, better than most game I've played. It doesn't feel cheap, like a linear volume graph based on distance, we really felt in the game with this one. Hearing each other scream with a reverb was GOLD COMEDY. Congrats!”
“It feels very unique. And I am a person who regularly watches streamers play horror games, so I would eat this up, especially if it has some overarching plot I haven't seen”
“The artstyle is amazing, the game's atmosphere is on point.”
“Just the fact it isn't your typical scary game, I still had a couple jump scares, but it's a new take on card games, it's like card meets horror. I also enjoy that type of card games, the health and vigour aspect”.
“I enjoy the artstyle, figuring out riddles together is great. I also love that the game allows this many players, usually games max out at 4”.
“I really liked when I got personally "spoken" to, telling me to not tell my friends about it. It made it feel more exciting and inclusive”.
“The atmosphere and staging itself was amazing. I liked the old school paranormal vibes along with the architecture of the game. The dark ambience definitely fit the gothic vibes that they were going for. The cutscenes were well done and I like the way the quest items fit into the storyline as well. Nothing felt out of place”.
“I love a good backstory and lore to each character and a game in general. This game seemed to have all of that, it was really fun to read through each character's bio and get a deeper understanding from the journal”.
“You guys nailed it with the atmosphere!! Right at the start of the game I got shivers. Everything is in the right place, the sounds, the music theme, the art style. Definitely a gothic game clearly characterized by mystery. The writing is in the right direction and the playable characters theme GREAT!”
“You can tell there's a lot of heart and soul put into the game”
“It was a game I have never seen, it's been a while since we got a unique and very good horror game and THIS IS IT.”
What you and your friends will be able to play today:
Five Playable Characters with 3D models, animations, unique cards, backstories and voice lines
Corruption System
Proximity Chat
Combat System
In-game cutscenes
Suite of player cards: 20 skill cards (10 at start, 10 to unlock), and 45 item cards to find
Three types of Seals
5 Relics to discover
Player Emotes
9 Player Curses
Monsters, miniboss and boss
Full voice acting for The Host and our five main playable characters
Complete Scenario One
Many Puzzles
Full sound design
Meta Progression including:
Two different emotes (Indicating ‘pointing’ and ‘shock’)
An alternate starting deck (unlockable for each character)
A special card (unique to each character)
While we'll of course be looking at the Steam forums for your thoughts, we want to invite you to join our Discord for a more direct interaction with the development team.