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Game
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Hell
Developer Hunted Cow Studios
Hell is a turn-based tactical skirmish strategy game developed by award winning developer Hunted Cow in partnership with Slitherine. From the Steam store page
728 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Steam reviews, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
53
Mixed
21 positive · 19 negative
95% range 37–67%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bluesky * | 75 | 7 | 598 |
| Steam reviews | 21 | 19 | 0 |
| Lemmy * | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mixed
22 of 41 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
53% recommend · 21 yes, 19 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 40 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mixed (28 of 56 positive).
Some players find the game has deep tactical gameplay with zones of control and flanking. [1][2][3] Others criticize the difficulty balance and lack of polish. [4][5][6] A few reviewers note the game is rigid with limited unit choices. [7][8][9]
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Representative posts
- [4]
After a promising start you will soon realise that Hell lacks polish. The game mechanics are pretty good with an interesting mix of different unit skills, individual level up, and tactics based around flanking, support, and elevation. The storyline is a typical overlay that doesn't lend much to the actual gameplay which consists of a series of progressively more difficult skirmishes - at least that's what one would …
- [5]
Mixed feelings. First mission of the campaign starts per default on hard. First attempt gets me wiped. Second attempt and I'm too slow. Winning on the third, but it still lacks the personalised feel where you can customize your army: you get what you get and that's it. What really annoys me is that the computer generated opponent gets ranged attacks with almost any units and they're very arbitrary. Deamons spawn …
- [1]
It's still early days but after playing the first mission (A Dark Omen) in the Defenders of Gilrand campaign, I have to say that I'm very impressed with the game. Playing on the default Hard level, I found it to be extremely well balanced, not too difficult, not too easy. https://youtu.be/dK71D_wSYFM http://youtu.be/Ej8JlhXXgeM Based on the Battle Academy engine I had a good idea what to expect before I began …
- [2]
Nice and very challenging strategy game with good graphics. Play on the lowest difficulty unless you're a true wargame grognard! [url=https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=502182765]--> Tips for winning the first campaign scenario as the good guys, if you're stuck! Plus where to find the game manual. <-- Pros: - Deep gameplay: Zones of Control, flanking and mutual unit support; special abilities for …
- [3]
Entertaining wargame based on the Battle Academy engine. If you like wargames like Battle Academy, you should like this- why buy this if you already have BA? Well, the shift from an emphasis on ranged combat to (mainly) melee provides an interesting twist. You still want your archers etc in optimal support positions but you really need to pay attention to melee formations, providing support to interlocking units and …
Summarised from 34 of the 207 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
Hell sits at 53% positive across 40 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Reactions
60 of 728 · most liked firstI always feel kinda patronizing talking about this, but gosh damn the growth of woman's basketball warms the cockles of my heart. There's 21,500 people at this Unrivaled game. Hell yes.
neutral · AI labelView post →My pic of Bune for bsky.app/profile/stra... 's game Kings of Hell :3 Go check <3
neutral · AI labelView post →Phillies made a hype video for their ball boy Adam, who is on the ballot for the ball crew at the MLB All-Star Game. Hell yeah!
neutral · AI labelView post →Mal from @strawberryoctii.bsky.social game Kings of Hell. I love him so much 💖💦
neutral · AI labelView post →Having a mariachi band play the national anthem at the Bears game just made my night. Case Keenum, Give Them Hell!
neutral · AI labelView post →Hell yeah dawg leave your old place on fire to make a new game that'll get cancelled in 2 years fuck yeah
neutral · AI labelView post →That’s the sound of millions of tv’s turning off in Canada. . . BUT HOLY HELL, WHAT A GAME No shame here. ✌️❤️🇨🇦
neutral · AI labelView post →20 years ago: Ugh, this looks like a PS1 game. Ew. Now: This looks like a PS1 game. Hell yeah!
neutral · AI labelView post →Congratulations Detroit. Hell of a game. No quit in you guys. Good night folks.
neutral · AI labelView post →Even cool, refreshing bottled water isn't enough to quench Magnes's thirst...😩 Magnes is from Kings of Hell, a game by @strawberryoctii.bsky.social !
neutral · AI labelView post →❤️🔥Hell Maiden is an action horde survival deck-building game inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy. ⬇️Wishlist Hell Maiden now on Steam! #hellmaiden
neutral · AI labelView post →Major League Baseball announces fuck it, it’s the 15th inning, rebroadcast this game, retransmit it. Hell, give your friends accounts of the game. We do not give a shit anymore.
neutral · AI labelView post →Gooner Game: Zap & Andy go to Hell
neutral · AI labelView post →Well, Canada, y’all delivered the final punch. Hell of a game.
neutral · AI labelView post →You might like pussy. Hell, I like pussy. But brother— pussy’s not the only game in town
neutral · AI labelView post →Hell of a game from the Bills, as always. Hooboy.
neutral · AI labelView post →So Donkey Kong is a miner in this new game? Hell yeah, working class Donkey Kong!
neutral · AI labelView post →Hell yeah Zero Parades. It is an official GOOD GAME
neutral · AI labelView post →HELL-BENT Factions HELL-BENT is a miniature game I was making before I got too busy...
neutral · AI labelView post →WHAT THE HELL FUCK YOU THATS WHAT THE GAME IS CALLED!!!!!!!!!
neutral · AI labelView post →"Did you see that Bears game last week?" "Hell of a game. Hell of a game."
neutral · AI labelView post →Hell of a year for video game releases
neutral · AI labelView post →Video game: [thinly veiled metaphor for how capitalism is bad] Me: Hell yeah Another video game: [thinly veiled metaphor for how capitalism is bad] Me: Hell yeah Another video game: [thinly veiled metaphor for how capitalism is bad] Me: Hell y
neutral · AI labelView post →Hell of a game. Go Team Canada! <3
neutral · AI labelView post →Family Game Night went poorly 😬 (Redraw of the painting Dante and Vergil in Hell by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1850) #hazbinhotel
neutral · AI labelView post →Video game ads from beyond Hell!
neutral · AI labelView post →Hell Is Us is a special video game.
neutral · AI labelView post →It's still early days but after playing the first mission (A Dark Omen) in the Defenders of Gilrand campaign, I have to say that I'm very impressed with the game. Playing on the default Hard level, I found it to be extremely well balanced, not too difficult, not too easy. https://youtu.be/dK71D_wSYFM http://youtu.be/Ej8JlhXXgeM Based on the Battle Academy engine I had a good idea what to expect before I began playing, namely that it would be good, and I wasn't disappointed. It's not a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hell yeah, we're getting this game
neutral · AI labelView post →After a promising start you will soon realise that Hell lacks polish. The game mechanics are pretty good with an interesting mix of different unit skills, individual level up, and tactics based around flanking, support, and elevation. The storyline is a typical overlay that doesn't lend much to the actual gameplay which consists of a series of progressively more difficult skirmishes - at least that's what one would presume; following the tutorial you are instantly thrown into a battle where you…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →HELL YEAH READ THAT GAME
neutral · AI labelView post →HOLY HELL WE'RE GONNA WIN THIS GAME
neutral · AI labelView post →Hell of a game. Hell of a game.
neutral · AI labelView post →Hell yeah game night
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm trying SO HARD this morning to not jump into politics because this account is largely about video games. I keep making and deleting political posts. But permit me just one little hell yeah, and now back to work on the game. These memes aren't going to draw themselves. Hell yeah.
neutral · AI labelView post →Drawing of Bune from @strawberryoctii.bsky.social ‘s Kings of Hell game.
neutral · AI labelView post →Just finished playing my first game and its amazing how much of a classical wargame feel HELL has. Reminds me of those old fantasy war games from the 1970s with the stat and rules depth of a Avalon HILL NAPOLEON AT WATERLOO etc. Sound effects are also nice with plenty of light hearted dialogue while not distracting from all the grim killing. Love the huge amounts of stats and modifiers delievered in a non-intrusive manner feeling very natural. Zone Of Control alone adds a huge amount of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I made a video, kinda long at 40min. http://www.twitch.tv/alienpickle/c/5504760 Skip to 10:00 where I start actually playing it. We cover multiplayer and the editor first. Have you played any other games that were made using the Battle Academy engine? If so, all the mechanics here are immediately familiar. There are 2 campaigns of 10 scenarios each. Essentially the game is "army of devils vs army of paladins". There's no strategic campaign map that ties it together, and you can play any of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hell, there's a lot of 7/10s where I really liked a game! Just means that it's not rewiring my brain chemistry. An 8/10 is something like Silent Hill f. Great. Polished. Resonant. Maybe a couple rough edges but gripped the whole way through. A 9/10 is Signalis, where I'll be up to 6am finishing it
neutral · AI labelView post →League official probably shouldn't have called the cops. Parents need to chill about other kids rotating in and getting a chance to play soccer in a U5 rec league game. Hell they didn't even keep score at the games my three year old played in this fall.
neutral · AI labelView post →Brennan Lee Mulligan just described The Pit of Hell in C4 for like 3 minutes and it was the most horrifying, literally hellish vision of it I've heard in a D&D game
neutral · AI labelView post →Dang! They just rolled out a BIG update to Hell Is Us, addressing my one real gripe with the game - not enough enemy variety Now there's ten more base enemy types. Also the game is 70% off. Be warned, it is dark, asking 'What if the resentments of the Bosnia/Serbian/Kosovo conflicts became demons?'
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m sure this has been used at least once by everyone who’s called a baseball game at any level in 35 years. Hell of a thing.
neutral · AI labelView post →Font designers, I'm on my knees begging you to please include an ñ in your font maps. Hell, in celebration of my Brazilian friends' victory this weekend, thrown in a ç as well. Your latam game dev friends will love you for this
neutral · AI labelView post →Hell naw. Get this young boy in a camp surrounded by other Black kids and let’s make sure he still loving this game and growing. I wanna knock everything over. This bull is why soccer is behind in this country.
neutral · AI labelView post →Hell yea. Game 7, trick or treat.
neutral · AI labelView post →Preliminary review after only 1.8 hours [I will update as I play more]. It is a story driven game at the strategic level, you fight one tactical scenario/battle after another, each increasing in difficulty and number of enemies. If you like turn based tacticaly battles, this looks like a lot of fun. PROS: - good graphics - easy UI - no bugs - good AI (I am playing on easiest level and it took me until the last turn to win the first scenario) - turned based strategy (gotta love it) - a little…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There is one major flaw I can't believe exists in a game released in 2014 and this is that some of the graphics in the game are stretched if you use any screen resolution that is not of a ratio of 4:3. These graphics include for example all unit information screens, shown when you move the mouse cursor over a unit or ctrl-click on a unit, some icons as well as all menue graphics and campaign description background graphics. Another flaw is the haze visible when using a zoomed out view. The bad…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Mixed feelings. First mission of the campaign starts per default on hard. First attempt gets me wiped. Second attempt and I'm too slow. Winning on the third, but it still lacks the personalised feel where you can customize your army: you get what you get and that's it. What really annoys me is that the computer generated opponent gets ranged attacks with almost any units and they're very arbitrary. Deamons spawn (very slowly animated) flames and spawn more and more. It all flies slow as hell…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hell yes. Selaco was already fantastic, but that's a beefy new slab of game. And they've tuned up all the old stuff too. Might be worth a full replay.
positive · AI labelView post →Hell to the yeah. Remedy has made some of the greatest games of all time. They do not sell well. This is selling better. That is good, because they threw everything at it, and with the exception of Alan Wake 2, I think it’s their best work. www.polygon.com/control-reso...
positive · AI labelView post →No better way to cap off an excellent day than a doubleheader sweep feat. an ass-whooping (20-2) of our most hated rivals while playing my beloved 1B, followed by a tough win (9-6) to clinch a spot in the 2-3 playoff game while deftly handling LF duties for the first time! Hell yeah fuck yeah! 🥎🌈
neutral · AI labelView post →Hell yeah a pitch right to the ass to tie the game. Baseball is beautiful.
neutral · AI labelView post →Cancelled for a game that hasn’t been started yet Hell is not deep enough for EA execs
neutral · AI labelView post →This is the first time I've heard of this man and his game, so this is a HELL of a news story for me to read.
neutral · AI labelView post →"I want Zelda but like you play as a dinosaur. And you have a sword that shoots swords." Hell yeah I'll make that game kid, that's a billion times cooler than another live service extraction shooter.
positive · AI labelView post →Why do we live in a world where the Child Predator Gambling Hell App (Roblox) is doing anime game bullshit better than literally anyone in the industry
neutral · AI labelView post →The graphics are OK and so is the interface but it is a very rigid game, no ability to choose which troops are deployed, limited scope to employ tactics to win often only a very narrow method to victory on the scenarios it really isn't what they advertise as it appears that you get more choices. for the cost I expected a more dynamic more "pick and choose your units" style game which this isn't I would not recommend buying this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm making a game about social anxiety. It's called Hell Is Other People. #indiegame #cozyhorror #horror #gamedev
neutral · AI labelView post →"Fuck yeah! The transes! So damn cool! Bridget trans! Hell yeah! Gimme that Good Ally™ PR! Anyways, if you want to actually *compete* in this game, have fun travelling to a country that'll execute you as soon as you step foot in it!" Evil. Irredeemably evil.
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