HELLEVATOR press kit

Developer: The Operator (solo, self-published)
Release: March 11, 2027 on Steam
Platforms: Windows (Steam), web browser (free demo)
Demo: Free on Steam, and in the browser at hellevator.online with no install
Genre: 2D pixel-art action, roguelite
Players: Single player
Controls: Keyboard, full controller support, touch (browser)
Languages: English, Japanese

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5531630/HELLEVATOR/
Free demo: on Steam, or in the browser at https://hellevator.online
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpwqIbIOXWY
Press kit: https://hellevator.online/press/
Contact: operator@hellevator.online

## Short description
A freight elevator descends the hundreds of floors of hell. Every time it stops, the doors open and demons pile in. KILL. THEM. ALL. Pixel-art carnage, bosses that come apart, and no way back up.

## Description
HELLEVATOR is a pixel-art action game about a freight elevator going down through hell. You never leave the car. Every time it stops, the doors open, the demons get on, and you kill all of them before the next drop.

Skeletons detonate into bone. Grunts come apart in halves. Every hit stops the world for a frame, and the blood stays: it pools on the floor, paints the walls, and is still there three floors down.

It plays with fighting-game hands: quarter circles, half circles and buffered specials, so a special pressed during recovery comes out on the first frame it can. Every fifth floor something bigger gets on. Kill it, and three boons hang over the body. Take one, and go deeper.

## Features
- Four heroes, each with their own strings, specials, two ultimates and boons
- Eight bosses that come apart, down to the thing at the bottom
- Fighting-game inputs: quarter and half circles, buffered specials, a three-bar ultimate
- Blood as a material: it splatters, pools and rides the car down with you
- Almost no UI: your health is on the car's steel beams and on your body
- Metal, start to finish

## Heroes
- THE SAMURAI: One sword. Six strings, four specials, and ONIGOROSHI.
- THE CRONE: An axe, a wolf, a bear and a stag.
- THE FALLEN: Thrown out of heaven.
- THE LAST MARINE: One suit of armor left.

## About
HELLEVATOR is made by The Operator, a masked solo developer, and self-published. The free browser demo is updated almost daily; patch notes are at hellevator.online/patches.

Use any of these in coverage, videos and streams of HELLEVATOR. No need to ask.
