Hell Is Us Is a Surprisingly Enjoyable and Accessible Semi-Soulslike - Just Don't Expect a Cheerful Story

I just beat Hell is Us on PS5 Pro — here’s 3 reasons to play, and 1 to skip

Hell is Us is one of the most fantastic games I've played in 2025, and while I enjoyed its rich exploration and satisfying puzzles, the repetitive combat is a chore. Here's my verdict after completing it.

Hell Is Us is a surprisingly enjoyable and accessible semi-soulslike - just don't expect a cheerful story

It might not be a ‘true’ soulslike, but Hell Is Us takes just the right amount of inspiration from the genre to create something new and interesting.

Hell Is Us review: a cryptic and ambitious meditation on war

The opening hours of Hell Is Us are brilliantly confusing. The game tasks you with getting up to speed on a complicated civil war between the Palomists and Sabinians. A deluge of proper nouns is unleashed: Lymbic weaponry, Guardian Detectors, and more. But the clearest way the game communicates that you should feel utterly dumbfounded is through the cryptic stone panels scattered amid its ravaged, Eastern Europe-coded setting; you’re unable to a…

Hell is Us Review Is Both Ambitious And Seriously Bleak

Rogue Factor’s new third-person action-adventure game Hell is Us is enigmatic, bleak, and frequently sublime. Loaded with intricate worldbuilding and downcast wartime themes, it oozes effort and apparent depth, even if this effect can be smudged by the game's combat shortcomings, occasionally shallow puzzles, and burdensome backtracking. Regardless, as a modern AA title, Hell is Us punches well above its weight, offering a slow-burning sci-fi my…