Hubfall

What is Hubfall?

Hubfall begins at a small camp at the forest edge, with a campfire, a waystone, and people relying on the hero. The game is an isometric action RPG built around fast dungeon runs. The routine is to choose a class, prepare gear in camp, use the waystone to descend, fight through generated floors to a boss, and return with loot. Maps change, but the camp and character keep their gains.

The main path spans ten areas and levels 1 through 50. It moves from crypts and catacombs into caves, frozen vaults, a submerged city, a dark forest, crystal mines, stormy peaks, and the Hell Maw. Each zone has its own enemies, boss, music, and hazards. Animated traps fit their area and can damage enemies lured into them. Room templates, organic cave shapes, and mixed layouts aim to make each run different. Beyond the Hell Maw, the Abyss continues to level 100, with layers that echo the ten areas and a weekly leaderboard version.

How to play

Start by selecting one of three classes. The Warrior has high health, crowd-clearing spinning attacks, a leap, and an earthquake. The Huntress fights at range with multishot, arrow rain, poison, and a roll. The Mage uses fireball, meteor, and flame wall, with frost nova and teleport for safety. Camp facilities cover smithing, trade, alchemy, storage, skill and talent shrines, quests, achievements, and a mercenary post. Each station can be upgraded across three tiers using gold and materials from runs.

Each descent ends with a boss and a return to camp. Normal mode damages gear on death, repaired by the blacksmith; Hardcore makes death permanent. After the last area, Nightmare and Hell unlock with area levels up to 95. Seals can raise run difficulty and rewards. Up to four mercenaries—Shieldbearer, Archer, Healer—can join, each with gear, a skill tree, and talents; they raise enemy toughness and improve loot.

Controls

Movement and basic attacks use left click or WASD, or the left stick on a controller. Skills are assigned to right click, Q, E, R, F, C, and X, and controller buttons handle the same role. Dodge is Space or a controller button. Potions sit on keys 1 through 4 or the D-pad. The town portal is T or a right-stick click. Every key can be rebound in the main menu. Controller and touch controls are fully supported. Rebinding matters for players who use nonstandard keyboard layouts, and the scheme keeps movement, attacks, skill inputs, dodge, potion access, and portal travel available without menu diving. That range makes the control layer flexible for different play setups.

Tips for your first run

Class choice shapes the first run. Melee-minded players can use the Warrior's health and area attacks; ranged players can keep distance with the Huntress or Mage. Area traps damage enemies too, so pull packs into them.

• Return to camp after bosses instead of chaining descents; gold and materials feed three-tier station upgrades and blacksmith work.
• Mark or lock favorite loot before salvaging, so cleanup does not eat the best roll.
• Complete a constellation to awaken it and change how a class skill works; the Starry Sky has more than 130 stars and 15 constellations per class.
• In Normal mode, repair damaged gear after deaths; in Hardcore, treat every fight as final because death is permanent.
• Mercenaries raise enemy difficulty and loot quality; hire them when the extra challenge is useful rather than automatically.
• Use the notice board for quests and story, and check the Hall of Fame for achievement and collection goals before a long session.

Content and replayability

Hubfall's boss design gives each of the eleven area bosses a distinct wrinkle. The Crypt King leans on skeletons that crawl over to restore him; the Flood Mother spawns brood eggs; the Frost Jarl uses a frost pull to drag targets in; the Drowned King's coral armor reflects damage; the Erlking creates illusion copies; the Heart of the Mountain hides inside crystal; the Thunder Lord races down a lightning path; flame orbs orbit the Hell Lord; and the Abyss Warden's eyes mend him while intact. Elite enemies of magic and rare grades can bring extra minions and random modifiers.

Loot grades run from common through magic and rare to legendary, with random affixes. There are 127 unique items, two per area and two per event, plus eight sets, sockets, and gems. The blacksmith handles upgrades, rerolls, enchanting, reforging, and salvaging, and can protect items by marking or locking them. The Starry Sky offers over 130 stars and 15 constellations per class; finishing a constellation awakens it and changes skill behavior.

Six calendar events begin automatically as the year turns: pumpkin, frost, spark, lunar new year, egg hunt, and midsummer themes. Each adds enemies, event loot, a quest, camp decorations, music, and a boss with a trick, such as merged pumpkin explosives, chain pulls, or a single rewind. Weekly Abyss leaderboards and run seeds for replays extend the chase. Co-op supports parties, invites, and shared runs.

Presentation and performance

Hubfall uses pixel art in an isometric view, with ten areas that each carry their own enemy set, boss, music, and hazards. Seasonal events add matching music and camp decorations, so the camp changes with the calendar. Animated traps belong to both the look and the combat: they fit their area and can be turned against enemies. Elite encounters add minions and modifiers, which gives fights more visual and mechanical variety.

English and German can be switched from the main menu or settings at any time. Browser progress stays local to that browser, so wiping browser data removes characters. A Windows version comes as one portable executable with no install needed. The browser build is playable. Both touch input and controller input are fully supported.

Who should play it

Hubfall fits players who want a Diablo-like loot loop in shorter sessions. The core appeal is a dungeon descent with a boss at the end, followed by camp upgrades that persist after the map resets. Build-minded players get three classes, constellations that change skills, affix-based loot, sets, sockets, gems, and blacksmith crafting. Co-op-minded groups can share runs, hire as many as four mercenaries to raise enemy difficulty and loot quality, and compare runs through seeds, replays, and leaderboards.

Hardcore players can choose permanent death, while Normal mode only damages gear. Completionists have ten areas, eleven bosses, six calendar events, 127 uniques, and an Abyss that climbs to level 100. The browser build and free price make a quick test easy. Because the game is still in development, players who need a fixed, finished feature set should weigh that. Touch and controller support are present, which broadens the input options beyond mouse and keyboard.