Hellcoming (v2021.12.19)

A hostile cleanup job becomes a fight for reality in Hellcoming, a co-op survival-horror game built around purging demonic corruption from sprawling, dangerous locations. Up to four players enter areas overrun by unnatural growths and predatory creatures, armed with specialist equipment rather than military firepower. The mood sits somewhere between a paranormal investigation and a desperate escape room, with every cleared room exposing another layer of the invasion. Survival depends less on individual heroics than on keeping the team mobile, alert, and free from demonic captivity.

Each mission revolves around severing a demon’s connection to the human world by locating and destroying the artifact that anchors it. Reaching that objective means passing through portals into the creature’s refuge, where an altar is shielded by several runes. Those protections fall only after players cleanse the corresponding manifestations in the map and deal with the monsters tied to them, creating a clear loop of searching, clearing threats, identifying what remains, and pushing deeper. Tools give the action a hands-on, workmanlike feel, while the threat of being trapped forces teammates to rescue one another instead of simply scattering across the level.

Hellcoming’s strongest idea is turning exorcism into a cooperative task list under pressure: the team is not merely killing enemies, but systematically dismantling the conditions that allow them to exist. Its portal-based structure gives each session an ominous sense of descent, shifting the action from contaminated real-world spaces into a more openly infernal domain. Communication matters because one imprisoned player can quickly become a wider disaster if nobody notices or can reach them safely. Players who enjoy the shared panic of Phasmophobia, the objective-driven tension of GTFO, or co-op horror where friends create the best stories should find plenty to like, especially with a regular group willing to coordinate rather than chase lone-wolf scares.