Hellboy: Web of Wyrd
Hellboy Web of Wyrd is a roguelite action adventure with an original story created in partnership with Dark Horse Comics and creator Mike Mignola. When an agent goes missing, Hellboy investigates. Prepare for…
Hellboy: Web of Wyrd is an adventure developed by Upstream Arcade, released 18 October 2023 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.
What Hellboy: Web of Wyrd is
Hellboy: Web of Wyrd is an adventure game developed by Upstream Arcade and released in 2023. It was published by Dark Horse Comics. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Built in 1962 by occultist Pasquale Deneveaux, The Butterfly House is more than a mere residence; it’s a gateway. Its perverse angles and non-Euclidean geometries were designed with a singular foul purpose in mind: to open doorways into a terrible and fascinating dimension called The Wyrd. Twenty years later, an agent of the B.P.R.D. is sent on a reconnaissance mission to the mansion and promptly goes missing. It’s up to you - Hellboy - and your team of Bureau agents to find your missing colleague and uncover the secrets of The Butterfly House. During the investigation, you will explore wondrous and strange planes of existence contained within The Wyrd, each one home to powerful monsters…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Hellboy series
Hellboy: Web of Wyrd is the fifth of 6 entries we hold in the Hellboy series. It arrived 6 years after Injustice 2: Hellboy. The next entry was Hellboy: Web of Wyrd - Collector's Edition in 2023.
How it was received
Hellboy: Web of Wyrd holds a critic score of 69 out of 100. That places it above 32% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2023 averaged 76, so it scored 7 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Hellboy: Web of Wyrd launched on 18 October 2023, within three weeks of Alan Wake II, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Marvel's Spider-Man 2 and Cocoon. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Alan Wake II, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Marvel's Spider-Man 2, Cocoon.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Hellboy: Web of Wyrd yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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