HELL GALAXY

About HELL GALAXY

HELL GALAXY is a single player role playing shooter game. It was developed by Italian Games Factory and was released on August 12, 2026. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

Hell Galaxy is the only game where you can experience the fusion of space battles, eerie specters, and daunting titans. This unique gameplay offers a mix of action, horror, and space exploration. Engage in dynamic mining, looting, and crafting while traversing an RPG-influenced cosmos. Unique Blend Of GenresHaunted Space combines the excitement of space combat, the intensity of a scary theme, and …

+14

Skip Games Like HELL GALAXY

Looking for games like HELL GALAXY? Here are top role playing shooter recommendations, selected from player-similarity data — start with Everspace 2, Landinar: Into the Void or Between the Stars.

82%11.9kreviews

Everspace 2

2021

Open World Role Playing Shooter

53%201reviews

Landinar: Into the Void

2019

Open World Role Playing Shooter

77%2.1kreviews

Between the Stars

2024

Open World Role Playing

87%9.5kreviews

Jump Space

2025

Shooter

85%9kreviews

Volcanoids

2019

Open World Shooter

74%794reviews

Hubris

2022

Platformer

64%1kreviews

Diluvion

2017

Open World Role Playing

74%995reviews

SpaceBourne

2020

Role Playing

77%517reviews

Outbreak Island

2025

Open World Role Playing Shooter

65%4.4kreviews

Starpoint Gemini 2

2014

Open World Role Playing

More games like HELL GALAXY

Skip User Reviews

Reviews

70%Audience ScoreBased on 56 reviews

story6 positive mentions

optimization6 negative mentions

The game has a strong and immersive atmosphere with a unique dark sci-fi and horror aesthetic, praised for visuals, sound design, and world building.
Spaceship controls and combat are enjoyable, responsive, and satisfying, with promising ship customization and upgrade systems providing deep personalization.
The developers are actively engaging with the community and improving the game, showing commitment to addressing issues and adding new content.

The game suffers from severe optimization issues, including poor performance even on high-end hardware, stuttering, crashes, and misleading minimum specs.
The user interface and menus are often confusing, clunky, and buggy, with problems in inventory management, crafting, quest tracking, and lack of an effective map, making navigation frustrating.
Numerous bugs and quest-related glitches impede progression, such as inventory loss, disappearing items, unreliable quest markers, and mission soft-locks, significantly harming the gameplay experience.

story
40 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
15% positive mentions, 77% neutral mentions, 8% negative mentions
The story is generally intriguing with good voice acting and immersive lore, but is hindered by shallow elements, plot holes, and unclear or buggy mission tracking that often makes objectives difficult to find and complete. While the main quest offers cinematic, story-driven gameplay, side quests and mission design can be frustrating due to limited areas, confusing markers, and occasional bugs. Overall, the narrative shows promise but would benefit from polish and improved quest guidance.
- “The plot looks interesting, and the voice acting is surprisingly good for an indie game.”
- “This game delivers a unique blend of space combat action, horror atmosphere, and RPG elements, with very good looking visuals, immersive sound design, and engaging story, offering a game experience that stands out among indie space sims.”
- “The story is intriguing, and the lore is both cool and seemingly deep.”
- “Kind of shallow, and a few plot holes.”
- “The story isn't very easy to follow, and many dialogues happen too quickly or while you're distracted by something else.”
- “- The missions have a limited area; if you leave the area you immediately lose the mission. There are no indications of what the area is or where you are supposed to go. Enemies will intentionally run away from the area to heal. The area is way too small, resulting in you failing many missions by leaving the area as you chase enemies around. Who thought this would be a good idea in a spaceship game?”
optimization
29 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
17% positive mentions, 62% neutral mentions, 21% negative mentions
The game suffers from significant optimization issues, including frame rate drops, stuttering, pop-ins, and glitches, even on mid-to-high-end hardware. While gameplay is strong and visually ambitious, performance problems detract from the experience, with many players hoping for future updates to improve stability and efficiency. Minimum system requirements are often seen as misleading, and better optimization, especially for controller support and graphical settings, is needed for a smoother, more enjoyable experience.
- “On the technical side, the game runs smoothly on maximum settings, maintaining over 90fps during combat.”
- “By improving optimization, which is the only real obstacle to the game being truly appreciated, I believe Hell Galaxy can offer many hours of fun even to players less experienced with this genre of games.”
- “As many others have pointed out, this game's biggest problem is its optimization, but you can really see how once that gets fixed, there's a game with great potential both from a gameplay perspective and an immersive experience perspective.”
- “Optimization, my system isn't "high end" anymore, but it was just a few years ago, and boy does this game struggle, not necessarily with raw framerate, but pop ins, glitches, stutters, wonky lighting and VFX etc.”
- “Unplayable piece of UE4 code with close to zero optimization.”
- “The graphic presets aren't changing anything, performance is awful on all of them.”
gameplay
26 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
23% positive mentions, 65% neutral mentions, 12% negative mentions
The gameplay offers an engaging mix of ship customization, exploration, and combat with a strong foundation and varied mechanics reminiscent of space dogfights, though some find combat lacks dynamism and could benefit from improved movement and aiming systems. While the flight mechanics and world-building are praised, long travel distances, occasional frustrating missions, and performance issues detract from the overall experience. Despite current bugs and jank, many see clear potential for improvement and an immersive, addictive gameplay loop once optimized.
- “The ability to switch smoothly between cockpit and third-person views, dynamic exploration and a deep customization system for ships and weapons make gameplay truly enjoyable.”
- “That said, the core gameplay loop—mine, craft, upgrade, dive back in—is dangerously addictive.”
- “The world feels distinct, the mechanics are fun, and there’s a clear foundation for the game to grow into something special.”
- “Furthermore, the instability mechanic is somewhat frustrating due to these long interaction times.”
- “Lastly for the combat mechanics, I have two issues to point out: while the experience can be fun, the lack of dynamism can make what should feel like a fluid, hi-speed spatial dogfight into a cumbersome experience aligning your ship and repositioning repeatedly while the enemy fighters move freely and efficiently. The game could definitely review the ship's movement to feel more acrobatic and fast-paced, and consider an assisted aim function to streamline the experience and make the fights feel closer to something like the space dogfights in franchises like Star Wars.”
- “Gameplay wise, playing with mouse and keyboard, the game feels nice, but the distances between the objectives and landmarks are so big that it feels like you are not moving forward.”
graphics
18 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
44% positive mentions, 39% neutral mentions, 17% negative mentions
The game’s graphics are praised for their retro, eerie sci-fi aesthetic that effectively creates a tense and immersive space atmosphere, enhancing the overall experience. However, performance issues, limited graphics settings, and the intrusive motion blur feature have frustrated some users, highlighting a need for more optimization and customizable options.
- “I specially enjoyed the retro-looking graphics that bring to life this desolate, derelict space dystopia, which is also introduced in the game's subtle narrative.”
- “The game nails that eerie, lonely atmosphere of deep space—dark visuals, unsettling ambient sounds, and just the right amount of tension to keep you on edge.”
- “The new motion-blur toggle is a life-saver for me—seriously, I can finally enjoy the gorgeous visuals without that smeary effect during fast turns.”
- “The graphic presets aren't changing anything; performance is awful on all of them.”
- “Unable to disable motion blur; are they trying to hide the horrible graphics behind motion blur?”
- “Also, the only graphics selection I can find is 1200x700.”
atmosphere
15 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
73% positive mentions, 27% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions
The game excels in creating a compelling, immersive atmosphere that blends dark sci-fi, space horror, and eerie, tense environments reminiscent of Warhammer 40k. Its unique visual style, sound design, and world-building deeply engage players, making exploration and combat feel both thrilling and atmospheric. While a few gameplay mechanics have minor issues, the strong atmosphere remains the standout feature praised across reviews.
- “The game nails that eerie, lonely atmosphere of deep space—dark visuals, unsettling ambient sounds, and just the right amount of tension to keep you on edge.”
- “This game delivers a unique blend of space combat action, horror atmosphere, and RPG elements, with very good looking visuals, immersive sound design, and engaging story, offering a game experience that stands out among indie space sims.”
- “The atmosphere is the best aspect of this game: from the soundtrack to the spaceship design, everything oozes space horror.”
stability
7 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions
The game suffers from severe stability issues, including frequent crashes, numerous visual bugs, glitches, and progression-halting quest bugs. Performance is poorly optimized, causing stutters, pop-ins, and graphical inconsistencies even on relatively recent hardware. Overall, the experience is marred by a high degree of instability and numerous game-breaking bugs.
- “Extremely buggy mess.”
- “Too many buggy quests that stop progression.”
- “As everyone else says, it's buggy (left-over text and icons disappear), it stutters to a halt on good hardware, and it crashes a lot.”
music
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions
The music is highly praised for its contribution to the game's atmosphere, effectively enhancing the space horror mood. Users appreciate the soundtrack alongside sound effects, noting that these elements significantly elevate the immersive experience.
- “I really loved the mood, the music, and the sound effects, and I see the developers pushing updates very frequently.”
- “The atmosphere is the best aspect of this game: from the soundtrack to the spaceship design, everything oozes space horror.”
grinding
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions
Grinding in the game is described as slow and unengaging, with sluggish movement and combat that feels tedious and lacks excitement.