For gamers who may be bothered by the cartoon nudity and bloodsplatters, these options can toggled off in the settings. The sounds were a little over the top, though once you moved them away and out of focus, they got on with what they had to do and I could concentrate on the other tasks at hand. Even torturing horrible historical figures couldn’t bring me around to enjoying the core mechanic. While the torture is coated in cute animations and helpings of humour, I couldn’t find that aspect of the game fun. Gaining suffering via the various types of torture devices was an unfortunate but necessary mechanism that was just unpleasant to witness.

Similar to the mechanism of collecting screams in the film Monster’s Inc., your second job is to collect suffering from the sinners to create special buildings and torture devices.

Beds, food production, water processing, and toilets are all required to keep your sinners busy working for you and keep them as happy as can be, given the circumstances they’re in. Inspired by games like Dungeon Keeper and Oxygen Not Included, your first job is to gather resources such as dirt, coal and metal, and build items to care for your sinners (ie labour force). Developed by Woodlands Games and published by Leonardo Interactive, Hell Architect lets you take on the roll of hell manager where you can design your own little slice of hell. Hell Architect brings dark humour and netherworld themes to traditional colony / base builder simulation gameplay.

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