Hellish Quart
by Kubold · 16 Feb, 2021
100 downloads
About the Game
Hellish Quart is a local-only (two players play on one PC, not online), physics-based sword fighting game. Set in 17th century Poland, it features a cinematic story and the most iconic sword fighter archetypes of this period.
With motion-captured fencing techniques and four gamepad buttons representing four attack angles, you'll need to use timing, technique, and speed to defeat your opponents. Choose from a variety of warriors and take part in cinematic story mode, arcade mode, safe sparring, quick fights, survival mode with online leaderboards, or local multiplayer. If you want to hone your sword fighting skills, you can spar with wooden weapons or train in modern HEMA gear. And for the ultimate experience, Hellish Quart also offers an optional VR mode.
Please note that the game is still in development and only supports local multiplayer (two players play on one PC, not online).
physical sword fighting using Active Ragdolls
cinematic story
online leaderboards
realistic historical fencing techniques
optional VR mode
Hellish Quart utilizes active ragdolls and real-time physics to get you the ultimate fencing experience. You can attack from four different angles using the four gamepad buttons. Different button combinations enable special attacks and combos. When you are not attacking, your character automatically assumes a defensive stance, blocking your opponent's attacks using the autoguard feature. Proper timing, technique, speed, measure, and wits are all crucial to winning, just like in real-world fencing.
The game is set in the historical 17th-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and the character models are based on 3D-scanned, reconstructed clothes from that period. The single-player campaign, once completed, will be firmly rooted in the reality of life in the region. You will duel against Zaporozhian Cossacks, Polish Hussars, Tatars, Turkish Janissaries, Swedish Reiters, French Musketeers, and more.
Screenshots
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
TWEAK:
- Vsync is no longer on by default
- Samuel: a bit faster attack animations
FIX:
- cleaned up after the hotfix
Note:
If you experienced an fps drop after the unfortunate update from a week ago, please reset the Graphics Settings in the Options menu, or turn off Vsync.
Again, I am very sorry for the game-breaking bug introduced in the previous update.
The issue happened only when launching the game without an existing save file, so it slipped through my testing. That was my mistake, and I take full responsibility for it.
Unfortunately, on the day of the update I had a family emergency and went straight to the hospital to take care of my mother during and after her shoulder surgery. Because of that, I did not check the comments, reviews, or reports for several days, and I was simply unaware that the game was failing to start for new players.
The game has now been fixed. I understand how frustrating this must have been, especially for people who bought the game during that time and could not even reach the main menu.
I apologize for the mistake, and thank you to everyone who reported the issue.
Hellish Quart pre-alpha v.2026.05.27.0
FIX:
- Fixed a game-breaking bug in the Main Menu that prevented launching the game if no save game file was present
This one is totally on me. The bug slipped through testing somehow. My apologies to everyone. The game works normally now.
NEW:
- Hellish Quart will warn you if your settings cause unstable fps, which usually breaks physics.
FIX:
- numerous small fixes and tweaks
TWEAK:
- dynamic muscles tweaks
Currently working on the new character (wip) essential for completing the Story Mode.
TWEAK:
- various small tweaks
Next:
New character in progress, first episodes of the second half of the cinematic story mode, new arena.
FIX:
- Advanced gore: disabled for characters using skins, which don't have a full set of custom gore wounds
- Father Zera: fixed a bad transition in (RFF) Right + 1, 2 combo
- Father Zera: more stable active ragdoll
- Most characters: more stable active ragdoll
- a bit smoother FPP camera
- Blood decals on the head no longer spawn in FPP in Player character
- Brothel Arena: fixed UV on some models
- Gallows Arena: fixed postprocessing
- Tutorial: fixed regression - last step
NEW:
- Tarnavski: new advanced gore wounds
TWEAK:
- thinner weapon colliders
FIX:
- LARP mode: fixed some audio and wrong 3d model spawning bugs
NEW:
- LARP weapons mode (foam padded weapons)
- Gore system work - strong cuts can cause severed limbs, chopped bones, etc. Work in progress (Tarnavski - upper legs, Isabella - right arm), will be adding characters and body parts as we go.
TWEAK:
- better physics-animation blending on blade collisions
- dynamic muscles tweaks for more stable collisions
- better hand guard colliders (if there is a hand guard)
- Marie: weapon weight and balance, width of the edge detector, tip detector adjustments
- Marie: tweaked blending of some thrust animations for better trajectory
- Marie: more attacks are cancelable earlier
- Marie: tweaked active frames in some attacks
- Hasan: tweaked active frames in some attacks for better dynamic muscles integration
- Yendrek: Jump attack animation tweaks
- Yendrek: weapon inertia and weight tweaks
FIX:
- Tarnawski: fixed an fps stutter when his voicovers load
- Camera no longer blurs out at the end of a match in "no blood" game modes
- Zera, Yendrek: Fixed some bugs that could cause counting a clean hit also as a blocked attack in Survival Mode
Hellish Quart pre-alpha v.2026.02.03.0
NEW:
- New Arena: The Galley
TWEAK:
- dynamic muscles tweaks
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Hellish Quart pre-alpha v.2026.01.09.0
NEW:
- New Arena: Water Hammers
TWEAK:
- dynamic muscles tweaks
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How to Install
Hellish Quart.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
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