Hell Is Us

Hell Is Us is an action-adventure video game played from a third-person perspective. In the game, the player assumes control of a soldier named Rémi, and fights against supernatural beings named "Hollow Walkers". Players can combat these creatures using a variety of melee weapons such as swords, polearms and axes, with each having their own attack style and speed. Rémi is also equipped with a drone which can be used to distract hostile creatures.

Players need to manage both the health and stamina of Rémi. Stamina will gradually regenerate but health will not, though Rémi's maximum stamina at any given moment is limited by his current health level. Fighting in an exhausted state means that the player character attacks more weakly and is more vulnerable.

An ON (Organized Nations) Peacekeeper named Rémi goes absent without leave and ventures into the war-torn country of Hadea to find his parents, only to discover that the region is infested with supernatural beings following a mysterious event named the "Calamity".

Rémi Letam awakens in the custody of the Ziel Council, a powerful secret organization made up of the world's rich and powerful as well as OMSIF, the council's private military force. Under the effects of a truth serum, Rémi explains to an interrogator that he joined the ON Peacekeepers as a pretext to sneak into his war-torn homeland of Hadea to search for his parents. He then begins to recount the events leading up to his capture.

Hell Is Us was developed by Rogue Factor, the studio behind Mordheim: City of the Damned. The project was led by Jonathan Jacques-Belletete, the art director for Deus Ex: Human Revolution and its sequel, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. According to Jacques-Belletête, the game was inspired by the 2018 film Annihilation, and the Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer. The game adopted a minimalistic head-up display as the studio was influenced by games released in the 1990s and wanted to create an immersive experience in which players receive information in an "organic" way. Jacques-Belletete compared the combat system to those commonly found in hack and slash games, one that is neither overly easy nor hard.

Hell Is Us was announced by publisher Nacon in April 2022, and was originally scheduled to be released in 2023. The game resurfaced in September 2024 during PlayStation's State of Play livestream event. The game launched for PlayStation 5, Windows and Xbox Series X/S on September 4, 2025. In May 2026, a port for Nintendo Switch 2 was announced with a September 24, 2026 release date, but the port got delayed to avoid competition with other games scheduled to release the same month and is now scheduled to release on October 8, 2026.

Hell Is Us received "generally favorable" reviews from critics, according to review aggregator website Metacritic. Fellow review aggregator OpenCritic assessed that the game received strong approval, being recommended by 79% of critics. In Japan, four critics from Famitsu gave the game a total score of 31 out of 40.

In August 2026, Nacon announced that Hell Is Us had surpassed 1 million players across all platforms, less than a year after its release.