Released Jan 6, 2023 Free Very Positive Counts toward your Steam games

EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE

By CC ARTS · published by Hyperstrange

Action Roguelike Roguelite Top-Down Roguelike Action-Adventure Horror Action Controller Story RichAdventureSci-fiSurvival

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Reviews 1,413 Very Positive

Players yesterday 1 at the busiest moment

Owners 200K–500K estimated

EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE is a game tagged Action Roguelike, Roguelite and Top-Down by CC ARTS, released Jan 6, 2023. It has 1,413 Steam reviews (Very Positive). It has an estimated 200K–500K owners on Steam. The Steam games most like it include EMPTY SHELL, Hell's Descent and Rogue Shell.

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.

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EMPTY SHELL 82% match · Action Roguelike, Roguelite, Top-Down
Hell's Descent 64% match · Action Roguelike, Roguelite, Top-Down
Rogue Shell 61% match · Action Roguelike, Roguelite, Roguelike
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Everything Steam lists for EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE · record updated 1 day ago

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Overview

App ID2224850

Release dateJan 6, 2023

Last change number40062413

Last record update1 day ago

App type: Game
Developer: CC ARTS
Publisher: Hyperstrange
Steam profile: Counts toward game count and achievement totals · checked Nov 1, 2025
Technologies: Unity detected

Windows

Steam Deck: Playable
Controller: Full support

Single-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsFull controller support

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Build	Branch	Updated
20269282	public	Oct 6, 2025

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ID	Name	Systems	Size	Download	Manifest
2224851	—	All	207.2 MB	94.1 MB	5518182671728069946

Branch	Build	Updated	Access
public	20269282	Oct 6, 2025	Open

Configuration

Install foldersteamapps/common/Empty Shell Prologue

Executable	Arguments	Systems	Description
EmptyShell.exe		All

Space per player8.6 MB

Filesup to 6

Save locations1

Root	Path	Pattern	Systems
WinAppDataLocalLow	CCARTS/EmptyShell	*.json	Windows

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EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE

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