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EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE cover art

EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE

CC ARTS · Hyperstrange · 2023-01-06

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieFree To Play

EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE will throw you in a dark industrial environment, a secret facility on a japanese island. Each volunteer has signed a contract for a "recovery operation" without being privy to too many details. A tense roguelite survival horror with a top down perspective.

0
playing now
94%
positive of 1.4k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 30% of 10,862 Action games in the census by review count.

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Completion

26
achievements tracked
71%
earned "HERD"
6.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing

8 supported languages: English, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Russian, French

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)8714%26

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

RetroActionHorrorSci-fiSurvivalTop-DownAdventureControllerOld SchoolRogue-like

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.