- New year. Same hell. - 17 January 2026
BEHOLDHighlighted enemies & civiliansEnemies and civilians now have highlighted edges so you can spot them while delivering total annihilation. On by default.Updated HUD & MenusFully rebuilt interface with a more intuitive presentation of your statuses, cooldowns, loading bars etc. New Death Scoreboard after your each Hellrun to see in detail what went wrong.All menus have been redesigned - Added Player Statistics (resetable), new tweaks in options, in-game Pause Menu and other bullshit.Updated Enemy BehaviorSome will dash or sprint when close, aggressively reposition, or actively hunt civilians just to murder them. Some are sharper than others. Improved movement and player-tracking algorithms make enemy behavior more realistic wild and more unpredictable.New EnemiesGiant FlyHellhoundBuzzes around.Might annoy you to death.Kinda the opposite.A demon-born jackal from below, driven by pure…
- Pay your respects to the dead - 1 November 2025
Day of the Dead has come - and the underworld’s been busy. This might be our biggest development update yet, bringing fundamental changes to gameplay, the scoring system, and the engine itself.\ — Long story short: we switched to the Universal Render Pipeline. This makes the game look better with new shaders, improved textures, particles, and lighting — all without sacrificing performance.\ — More ways to earn! Not only will you be counting the bodies, but every single hit on the Hellspawn without taking damage adds to your new combo meter (and thus your score)! Completing all given tasks in one zone earns you a MEGA BONUS SCORE.\ — With the URP update, we’ve tweaked the settings to be darker and more atmospheric.\ — Jesus Christ, some of them are still alive. \ — Slice ’n’ dice the Hellspawn that make it through your bullet rain with the second mouse button!To be continued
- Fueling 2025 - 12 March 2025
Banishing – Hellspawn now drop essence that can be gathered for a short time after their death. More powerful enemies naturally drop more essence. Gathering enough essence quickly grants powerful boons. Hellrun seed – Now affects the following: enemy quantity, enemy types, items in the level, weather, and the map. Enemy and item positioning is intentionally randomized to keep things interesting. Also: New weapons: Plasma Pistol & Plasma Rifle New skins for enemies New player skin New algorithms to generate ground textures for maps Enhanced enemy AI – Enemies behave more unpredictably and dangerously. Nothing you can't handle, soldier. More dynamic explosions BIRDS Small fixes to damage and score numbers Small fixes to HUD Next, we’re focusing on: More content Online features HUD updates Menu updates Ta-ta
- Size matters - 18 May 2024
The bully of the playground. Often surrounded by minions, this big guy can take a hit without flinching. Immediate use of serious firepower recommended on contact. Under the hood, we updated the bullet detection, added bullet trails, improved particles effects on muzzle blasts and made some changes how explosions generally work. Since the Hellspawn grow stronger, so must we: Development is currently focusing on weapons overhaul to even the odds. Stay tuned!
- Weekend playtest LIVE! - 27 January 2024
Choose violence. Join the Horde and participate the alpha playtest between 27.1-28.1
- X-max playtest LIVE! - 24 December 2023
Ruin family X-mas! Horde will be playable with all it's current features between 24.12-27.12. -Challenge only players with higher scores in the Retribution mode. -New powerup items to use. -Option to use free aim crosshair (default on). -Upgraded biomes and Zones to make everything look awesome. -Upgraded shaders to make lightning effects and particles to look more realistic. -Huge amounts of small gameplay features added and bugs squished.
- Horde's first closed ALPHA is live! - 19 November 2023
Aaaand we're live with the first lucky 20 players, who subscribed to the Horde's Closed Alpha Playtest. This release is to test the online functions regarding Steam Leaderboards and the initial phase of the ingame Retribution system, where players can challenge other top-gamers directly from the leaderboard to get fame. Good luck!
- Green Hell - 11 November 2023
It just keeps getting better. -A new algorithm that generates different types of realistic trees and forestry into Zones. -We doubled the amount of biomes to keep dying fresh! -Introducing a new enemy type: LARVA. Think about a minivan sized slug that wants to eat you. Often inhabits multiple larva hatchlings inside its body. Yeah, they wanna eat you too. -More randomized content to Zones: Abandoned cranes, forgotten worksites, streetlights, etc.
- Arachnophobia update - The second most annoying enemy in video games - 30 September 2023
One of the most annoying thing in video games right after invisible enemies? Spiders. In all shapes and sizes. Harmless in small numbers, lethal if you get surrounded. And that's why we added hordes of these eight legged, egg-spawning, savage little f***ers to keep you occupied. Destroy nests and eggs before they hatch! Also huge load of bugs fixed and features added. For example loading screens, blood splashes to HUD when taking dmg, modified shaders to make the levels, weather & gore to look even more realistic etc. (Invisible demons coming up on next update, n00bs.)
- Weather overhaul - 4 July 2023
The weather system has been completely redone. We changed from an orthographic camera to a perspective camera for more immersive effect. This means even more dynamic and realistic atmosphere with raindrops and snow falling now in fully three dimensions. From a faint drizzle to a blistering snow storms, weather on each run is going to be different. And of course, the gameplay just got more violent with flying bodies, blood rains and particle effects. Go check out our two new trailers on the Horde's store page!
- The red bastard - 18 June 2023
Let us introduce the HELL BARON! This red bastard from the void will get you when least expected. This is not all. Horde has gone some serious updates during last months. The gameplay is slicker than ever, while items and enemies are now outlined for easier recognition, even in the most frantic combat situations. Physics engine has been tweaked and hellspawns now use pathfinding to avoid obstacles while killing you over and over again. HUD displays the direction of the incoming enemies and also the direction to the exit portal, when zone is finished. We've updated the Steam page for more recent screenshots of the newest version that also display few of the dozen new maps added to Horde. Stay tuned!
- New gameplay trailers, features, screenshots and other propaganda - 22 January 2023
KABOOM! Make your friends hate you! We've just added THE RETRIBUTION feature to a testing phase, where players can challenge other players directly in game by trying to beat their scores in an identical Horde run based on the challenged player's Horde run seed. The player who scores more on the run wins and the both players will get notified of the result. Go check out the freshly updated Horde Steam store page to find two new gameplay trailers, screenshots and other news about the game.
