Heckpoint

Heckpoint is a bullet-hell, hack-and-slash action game set in the not-too-distant future. A shadowy organization’s experiments developing fuels from dark energy tear a hole in the dimension, causing a ripple effect that creates glitched, splintered versions of Earth. Interdimensional conquerors use these worlds as gateways to invade reality, and you fight their forces, find the obelisk and try to reach the HECKPOINT.

Fight through the worlds

You cut through enemies and destructible environments with ranged weapons and close combat, and can soar above the battlefield or dive down with a powerful melee attack to smash ground-based enemies. Melee attacks can also destroy grenades and reflect enemy lasers. Stay airborne too long, however, and the game punishes you with a hail of meteors.

Each world has a mini-boss and a unique final boss guarding the route to its obelisk. Defeating the final boss and activating the obelisk unlocks the next world. Some worlds have hazards such as treacherous frozen surfaces or meteor showers. Elite enemies have more health and deal more damage, but drop more strange matter. You can also practise in Spooky World or T Day.

Build your load-out

You can play as 12 characters, each with a distinct personality, weapon and ability. Collect and trade strange matter found in the game to unlock more than 70 upgrades for stats, weapons and abilities, with hundreds of possible combinations. Gene Works lets you upgrade stats permanently, and you can equip up to eight slots of weapons, special abilities or stat enhancements to shape your approach to battle.

Game modes

The four modes offer three challenging runs and an endless mode:

• Normal: A more accessible mode for practice, with no flying enemies or deadly glitch field and only a handful of elites after the miniboss. Loot is less valuable.
• Endless: Face an unending horde with no obelisk to reach.
• Onslaught: Face more elite enemies, tougher opponents and a midpoint mini-boss. The obelisk deep in the world is an artifact that destroys and resets it.
• Warpath: Fight at a faster pace with no time to stop and think as the glitch field consumes the world behind you.

The game features an original, expanding soundtrack by Two Iron Fists.