Hellgate: London returns in offline version

Hellgate: London will be released on Steam on November 15th. The South Korean publisher HanbitSoft is relaunching the game, now as an offline RPG. It is the third time the game has been released.

A new listing of Hellgate: London has appeared on Steam. According to the download platform, the game will be released on November 15, only for Windows. The game is marketed by South Korean HanbitSoft and parent company T3 Entertainment is listed as developer. It is striking that the game is listed on Steam as a single play environment, while the original version was an online multiplayer game. According to the makers, it is even a single play optimized scenario.

Hellgate: London is set in the near future, in the English capital that is besieged by devils and demons. The player can choose from six types to overcome the danger. The game is partly procedurally generated, as with many similar games, the dungeons are designed that way.

It is the third attempt to bring Hellgate: London to the market. The original version of the game was created by American Flagship Studios, founded in 2003 by Bill Roper, Max Schaefer, Erich Schaefer, and David Brevik, all four of whom played key roles in the development of Diablo. With Hellgate: London, they wanted to create a similar game that would have both an online and an offline component. The game was released by Electronic Arts in 2007, but in early 2008 Flagship Studios went bankrupt and the rights to the game were sold to HanbitSoft. In 2010, he made an unsuccessful attempt to market the game as a free-to-play mmog in Asia. Now the South Korean publisher is trying again, with an offline version.