Indie developer AstralShift have fully revealed Hell Maiden, their next game inspired by Dante Alighieri’s iconic Divine Comedy.
Their Touhou Project meets Vampire Survivors and deckbuilding game is in development for Windows PC (via Steam), though a release date wasn’t announced.
Here’s a rundown on the game, plus its first official trailer:
Touhou Project meets Vampire Survivors in a new deck-building game, Hell Maiden, inspired by Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy.
Hell Maiden is an upcoming horde survival deck-building game by AstralShift, the creators of Little Goody Two shoes and Pocket Mirror, who are now diverging from the horror genre to develop an action-packed adventure set in Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy.
At its core, Hell Maiden fuses the horde survival roguelite genre with deck-building mechanics to create a fresh new experience where players collect, stack and merge a myriad of cards to build unique hands and decimate Hell’s toughest fiends.
To conquer all 9 Circles of Hell, players will count with the help of the Poets of Limbo whose Blessings and Signature Weapons provide unique abilities, perks and ultimate attacks to mix and match and create unstoppable builds.
With hundreds of tarot-inspired original card illustrations, the game’s visuals blend the retro and nostalgic graphics of the 2000s with a modern and expressive twist featuring hand-painted environments, visually stunning combat animations and eye-catching ultimate attacks with dynamic 2D animation cuts.
As an original sequel to Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, Hell Maiden takes players on a brand new journey through the 9 Circles.
Dante is now inexplicably back in Hell after having reached Paradiso — and she’s lost all her memories to boot! Unable to remember anything about her past life or her first journey through Hell, Dante is determined to climb her way back to Heaven and once again come face to face with Paradiso’s higher powers in search for answers.
Once again accompanied by the Roman poet Virgil and protected by the sanctified Beatrice, players will not only have to make it through the dark abyss, but also find and rescue the Poets of Limbo whose fate now rides on Dante’s success.
Players will meet legendary poets, philosophers and artists of antiquity such as Homer, Ovid, Horace and Lucan, and help them find their own way to salvation.
Taking inspiration from Touhou Project’s colourful and quirky cast of characters, Hell Maiden breathes new life into its source material with an all-female cast and an all original OST that blends dance music with an aristocratic gothic flare while retaining AstralShift’s much beloved charm.
With multiple challenging boss fights to overcome, cards to collect, characters to meet and questlines to explore, Hell Maiden encapsulates all of AstralShift’s creativity in a new immersive experience designed to conquer the hearts of both old and new fans!
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