Players will use sabers, palaches, basket hilt swords, rapiers, and even an ancient german longsword. Players will duel Zaporozhian Cossacks, Polish Hussars, Tatars, Turkish Janissaries, Swedish Reiters, French Musketeers, and more. All this allows for a really varied character roster. It is also a period in which the swords reached their peak in variety and specialization. This place and time is a wonderful mix of cultures and races, constant wars, battles, and duels. The game takes place in 17th century Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Hellish Quart happens in a historical, realistic setting. Jakub Kisiel, the head developer of the game, is a mocap artist that formerly worked on games like Bulletstorm and The Witcher III and is a lifetime sword fighting enthusiast. This is because all animations in the game are recorded by HEMA practitioners, using motion capture. There are no Hollywood-style, flashy, but unrealistic moves. The gameplay looks and feels like a real HEMA duel. The only thing that is stopping the opponent’s blade to cut into them, is their own, physical blade, that’s in the way. The characters, when blocking, are not invulnerable, like in other games. If players are not attacking, their character will automatically try to hold guard against their opponent's attacks. Different button combinations give special attacks and combos. Players walk with the gamepad’s left stick or a d-pad and the four gamepad buttons represent 4 attack angles. The view and controls are very similar to a regular 3D fighting game. There are no visible health bars and, like in the aforementioned games, fighters can be killed by a single, well-timed, and measured attack. The main feature of the game is that the swords actually physically clash and block each other, using the game engine’s physics simulation. Hellish Quart is a spiritual successor to games like Bushido Blade or Kengo, but with a European twist. The game is a love letter to ever more popular Historical European Martial Arts (also known as HEMA).

Players fight as 17th-century warriors: Cossacks, Hussars, Janissaries, Highlanders, Tatars, and use sabers, rapiers, broadswords, longswords, and many other blades. Hellish Quart is a fighting game about one-on-one sword dueling, in which the blades block each other using physics, and the characters use motion-captured historical fencing techniques.

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