Hyperborea

Hyperborea is a modern reimagining of Wolfenstein 3D, with high-definition 3D environments and a progression through changing themed areas. You fight through enemy hordes in a shotgun-focused shooter with no storyline, advancing toward an unspecified final goal.

Combat and survival

You use a shotgun throughout the game. Missing a shot doubles the cooldown before your next shot, so keeping your firing rhythm matters. Enemies can kill you if they get close, and they make no noise until you kill them. You must spot them or use the waypoint hand: it shakes only when an enemy is somewhere in the direction you are facing, and shakes more strongly as you get closer.

Every four kills earns a crucifix/caduceus. It protects you for three seconds if a monster catches you, shielding you from that monster and any others during that period. Watch for attacks from the side when turning corners.

Visuals and performance

The game presents its high-definition graphics as a benchmark for triangle rasterization. A frame may render around 30 million triangles, with at least 8 million in some cases; the game contains 184,597,952 triangles across 92,546,029 vertices in 6 GB of disk space. It starts with 16x MSAA if your graphics card supports it, otherwise using the highest MSAA available.