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Halls of Torment: Prelude

2023

Should you play it?

Slay hordes of terrifying monsters in this horde survival roguelite. Descend into the Halls of Torment where the Lords of the underworld await you. Treasures, magical trinkets, and a growing cast of heroes will grant you the power to vanquish these horrors from beyond. How long can you survive?

What works

  • Addictive gameplay with strong meta progression
  • Nostalgic diablo-inspired art style and atmosphere
  • Customizable builds with gear and skills
  • Challenging combat with varied enemies and bosses
  • Free demo with substantial content

Things to keep in mind

  • Limited content and variety in current prelude
  • Some balancing issues and difficulty spikes
  • Few character classes and maps available
  • Ui and control polish needed
  • Lack of multiplayer or social features

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Keeper's Toll

  • Halls of Torment

  • Spirit Hunters: Infinite Horde

  • Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood

  • Beautiful Mystic Survivors

  • Death Must Die

Less story-driven

Games that feels like Halls of Torment: Prelude but with less narrative immersion

  • Soulstone Survivors: Prologue

  • Dark Bestiary

  • Scarlet Tower

  • Dungeon Journey

  • Magic Rune Stone

  • Gunlocked

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

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Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Halls of Torment: Prelude. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Halls of Torment: Prelude. These titles are not in What to play next.

Halls of Torment: Prelude: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Violence, Continuation. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Leadership.

Last update: 21/08/2026