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EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE
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.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-13.
“absolutely worth giving a shot if interested. lots of atmosphere and just a fun time.”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“This Prologue left me still in my Shell, Empty inside”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“ну как часть игры норм, но если такая дрочка будет в основной игре, то упаси в такую духоту играть, опять наступая на те же грабли инди дебилы делают кучу всего чтобы потом игроки шли по пути наименьего сопротивления, кто виноват? разраб. Я играю в игрушку и максимизирую свой…”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs playedLatest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Quick Unity fix
Hi everyone! Just a quick update to fix the recent security vulnerability issue that may affect all Unity games built in the past few years. The volunteers already have their own problems... they don'
Level exit prompt
Hey, everyone! This small update brings a prompt at the end of each level that asks for an interaction to proceed to the next one, so that you don't accidentally exit a level leaving stuff you were pl
Happy Birthday!
Hey, everyone! Exactly one year ago , EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE was released, marking the beginning of this journey. Since then, thousands of lines of code have been written, tens of thousands of vertices
Steam Deck quick fix
Hey everyone, just added a quick QoL fix. Basically, if running on the Steam Deck , at first launch the default UI size will be " Big ". If you already launched the game, then, if you want, you can ma
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie, Free To Play |
| Player tags | Action Roguelike · Rogue-lite · Top-Down · Rogue-like · Action-Adventure · Horror · Action · Controller · Story Rich · Adventure · Sci-fi · Survival (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Steam Leaderboards |
| Languages | English, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Russian, French |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 26 |
| Estimated owners | 200,000 – 500,000 (SteamSpy) |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 or higher Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD equivalent Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Intel Graphics HD 2GB or equivalent DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 150 MB available space Sound Card: Onboard audio is enough